Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 90 per cent of the upperclassmen belong to clubs. Clubs are for eating, partying, talking, and little else. One club--Tower--sponsors speakers and discussions, but none of the other clubs do anything like that...
...system's selectivity. "Built upon the selecton process, the hierarchy is the testament to the ethic generated by Bicker--the nebulous concept of 'coolness,'" the proposal reads. What the committee wants is a system similar to Harvard's House application system. Sophomores would list their first three club preferences, which would be respected as much as possible. The effect, of course, would be to make the clubs far more heterogeneous. The proposal would destroy the hierarchy, and a lot of the trauma of the Bicker ordeal. But it would also create a kind of club system a great number...
After exams, Bicker begins. Representatives of the clubs come in and check out your brand of rep striped tie, yellow shirt, gray trousers, navy blazer, and freshly shined shoes. Talk starts with the room. "Not a bad room for sophomores. Nice picture over there. Nice carpet too," the club man will say. Then there are nods and "thanks" and the talk changes...
...interviewer clears his throat. "Well, what do you fellows think about clubs anyway. Why do you want to join Ivy?" And in five or ten minutes it is over. Another club representative comes in and the ordeal begins again...
...club men report back to their clubs and write comments about you in Bicker Book right under your picture cut out of the Freshman Herald. The next night, if you're lucky, Ivy will come around again and talk to your group. And then maybe again and again. And maybe you will...