All Clubs Should Be Sign-in

I was a member of Colonial Club in the 1950s. Today it is a sign-in club, no longer selective, and has a membership that includes many Asian and Asian American students. All clubs should be sign-in. Ivy, Cottage, Tiger Inn, and Cap and Gown are out of step reflecting the Princeton of decades ago. Neither club should think of themselves as special in the club lineup. In my day Ivy was thought of as a boring self-satisfied inward group with Cottage trailing close behind. And both had no house party bands worth a plug nickel. Colonial was front and center with the best Eastern bands, hands down, over party weekends.