<p>@MizzBee:</p>
<p>From an outsider looking in, since eating clubs appear to be a big part of campus life, those not involved seem to be overwhelmingly lower income, which questions how well Princeton addresses class issues.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, the clubs serve a recreational purpose that could be said to be superlative to the societally-defined “purpose” of a University education (i.e., knowledge and employability). I suspect that, anywhere you go, lower-income students will be less willing to spend money on recreational activities than higher-income students. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, perhaps?</p>