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...actively discriminated against as they used to be. How much discrimination there is during Bicker (when the clubs choose their new members) is impossible to say. But the fact that five times as many Jews join Wilson as join the average club is significant and exposes the exclusionist nature of the club system...
Princeton's clubs stand for homogeneity, moderation, good will, and selectivity. Many of the University's Jews find it impossible or hypocritical to join that kind of exclusionist system. They tend to be more liberal than other Princeton men, and the system appears immoral to them. So many of them choose not to join. Others, faced with the prospect of landing in a bottom club, decide not to join. One Wilson man pointed out that there is a high proportion of math and science men in the bottom clubs (and sociological studies bear him out): "Many Jews are math-science...
Those who contend that the clubs are a good thing for members have a more difficult time arguing that they perform a valuable Service to the University. The clubs' exclusionist philosophy would seem to be out of step with the University's democratic ideals...
...punctured by a sentence which was a cactus of innuendo: International conflict, said Mr. Arita, is "largely due to the fact that some nations insist upon trying to maintain an irrational and unjust international status quo relative to race, religion, territory, resources, trade, immigration and other matters by adopting exclusionist policies or by abusing their superior positions...
...panacea, the one upon which British Hope is pinned today, is Britain's new exclusionist embargo and tariff policy (see Parliament's Week) upon which she counts to reduce her imports. But this is not enough. She must increase her exports. How? The fundamental trouble is with the brains of British businessmen, as H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, told them again last week. They are too slow to master the U. S. methods of salesmanship...