<p>I'm curious about the eating club system and bicker, for princeton students or anyone else who knows, can you give me specific examples of what is/has been done in the bicker process to decide who gets into the clubs?</p>
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<p>anyone know?</p>
<p>I am also curious about this process.</p>
<p>I’m a member of one of the sign-in clubs, so I don’t have first-hand experience. But I talked to all of my bickering friends during that week. It varies by club: most of the clubs will have you play a bunch of games with members you don’t know, some clubs will do interviews, and some clubs will do a mix of the two. Basically the idea is to get you to meet people in the club you haven’t met yet, and you basically end up meeting everyone. That makes it easier for the club members to make decisions together. It might sound kind of intimidating, but from what I hear it’s a good time…some of the games sounded fun. Really, that’s all you “do” to get into the bicker clubs, although cultivating friendships with the clubs’ members is always a plus…but who would want to join any kind of club where they didn’t know anyone? Most clubs have “pre-Bicker” events and dinners for you to get a chance to meet some of the members if you haven’t already, and get a feel for the food and atmosphere of the club in a non-party environment. I went to a few of those, and the members were eager to meet prospective members and were very friendly and open. I didn’t choose not to bicker because they weren’t friendly…another club, Terrace, was just a better fit for me.</p>
<p>Anyway, that’s as much perspective as I have to lend. You probably won’t get direct answers from eating club members, because technically they’re not supposed to tell anyone what happens during Bicker (to give it an air of mystery I guess). I talked to people from every bicker class, and while not everyone had the best time of their lives (3 hour-sessions of playing games and meeting people does get tiring, I hear), they all had positive experiences, even people who were not ultimately offered membership. </p>
<p>And for those of you who might be worried about this, there’s no drinking at Bicker events.</p>
<p>It varies from club to club… Tower is pretty tame, Ivy only does interviews, and TI basically tries to make you throw up… there are some infamous activities, like passing a live goldfish from mouth to mouth, or having a spotlight shone on you and you have to answer embarrassing questions. Even though the purpose of bicker is so the members can meet you and determine if you’re a good fit for the club, a lot of the time that is already pre-determined based on your affiliations (frats, sororities, sports team, etc.). Some people spend three semesters social climbing and joining certain groups in order to join the club that they want, so it’s rare for someone to get into a club purely based on their bicker performance. </p>
<p>Discussions happen after bicker, and it’s how the members decide who to let in. Tower, for example, have positive only bicker, so members can’t say anything bad about the bickerees. Other clubs will allow members to blackball a bickeree, or say negative things against them. Then the members will vote and determine who the new members are.</p>
<p>Yuck on the goldfish passing!</p>
<p>Just think of it as sushi. Moist sushi.</p>
<p>^Moist, squirming sushi</p>
<p>haha agreed, that’s gross</p>
<p>any other stories/examples?</p>
<p>sounds like rushing a fraternity</p>