Princeton eating clubs?

PDaddy
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:07:01 +0000

I predict the campus is not going to be same place in three years when today’s prospective students are juniors. 30% of juniors and seniors already eschew joining eating clubs. As eating options, the residential colleges are going to compare favorably to the clubs in terms of price and convenience. As the new administration seeks more diversity in the student body, it will increase the percentage of students, particularly non-whites, who tend not to join the clubs. As a social scene, the clubs are always going to appeal to a segment of the population. However, I suspect that some male upperclassmen will find the idea of being in constant informal contact with freshmen and sophmore female underclassmen to be appealing. If I were a betting man, I’d say the majority of the class of 2010 will not become eating club members.