<p>My primary interest is in admissions matters, and I try tro keep current on what is going on everywhere to the extent I can.</p>
<p>It seems more personal than that...but ok</p>
<p>well, just as there's a building at harvard with his CC name, there's a building at princeton with byerly's REAL last name...</p>
<p>Be careful, scottie.</p>
<p>will do, ned nassau.</p>
<p>So if you have such a strong Princeton affiliation, why do you antagonize the school so much?</p>
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<p>"antagonize the school?"</p>
<p>What does that mean?</p>
<p>Getting rid of the "eating clubs" - or squeezing them until they close up of their own accord (the preferred method) - will help Princeton enormously, allowing it to move up from 4th or 5th place to nearer the top in RD yield rate.</p>
<p>so byerly- you seem to be very against the eating clubs. do you personally know anyone who has had a negative experience with them? because the impression ive been getting, and this may be totally skewed because i have only met a few pton students, is that most people enjoy them. and even if pton has a lower yield rate, at least the kids who do end up going there are kids who would genuinely like the pton experience and not just going there for the name. but then, what the hell do i know :)</p>
<p>Eating clubs are Princeton. Period. It's one of those things that you take with Princeton (whether you like it or not) when you apply. They don't need to be disposed of. There's already enough destruction of Princeton tradition going on...</p>
<p>And I had never heard of Princeton as "the drinking school" before I entered this thread. That title had always gone to Penn or Dartmouth in my encounteres ;)</p>
<p>There's a piece in the Daily Princetonian about race and 'The Street', they draw interesting conclusions.</p>
<p>eating clubs? free beer. nuff said.</p>
<p>i was just reading some of the daily princetonian articles, as per filmxoxo's suggestion and theres a lot of negativity abt the clubs and how theyre just places to get drunk...im getting very confused here...</p>
<p>the negativity about hte clubs is that theyre supposedly "elitist." i wouldnt know. only thing i know is that they serve free beer to the underclassmen.</p>
<p>and if ur scared of a beer when ur going to college...</p>
<p>They have a lot of bad coverage in the student paper. However, they do also say the positives. I would trust the opinions of those who wrote the article and go to the school, as opposed to others who have graduated years ago or have not matriculated yet.</p>
<p>posts 8, 12, and 14.</p>
<p>I am personally agnostic on the matter of "eating clubs."</p>
<p>My only point is that they seem to constititue a negative feature, on balance, for a significant fraction of potential applicants. </p>
<p>Whether those in a position to change things find the loss of such potential applicants an acceptable sacrifice in order to preserve a worthy "tradition" is another matter altogether.</p>
<p>i'm curious as to why you continue to place "eating clubs" in quotes. they're clubs, and students eat in them. there's nothing ironic about the name at all.</p>
<p>I don't see why you would need to abolish the eating clubs in order to get rid of the supposed elitism it creates. You could, for example, just make them all sign-in and cost the same as the dining hall bill. I think they really add some character to Princeton and I like them the way they are.</p>
<p>well, the administration can't abolish the clubs or make them all sign-in, because they are private institutions. although i believe the university may own the land on which some of them sit.</p>
<p>Excellent point. Obviously the eating clubs must be doing something right if upwards of 70% of the upperclass student body is choosing to eat in them. And when the four-year residential college system comes into effect in two years, there will be no cause to complain. From anyone, Princeton or not ;)</p>