A Jewish Guide to the Eating Clubs

by Jacob Savage | September 28, 2007 at 1:20 pm

princeton cjlWe've stumbled across a Hillel staffer's guide to Princeton's eating clubs. It's touching in its banality; it's the view of an outsider pretending she's in, though it's pretty clear just how out she is (full disclosure: I was in Ivy; Hal's in Terrace).

Despite its blatant over-generalizations and reliance on hearsay and stereotypes, the guide is a testament to just how far Jews - and Princeton - have come. I can only imagine what this guide would have looked like 50 years ago: "Don't even bother."

Here's the guide's un-charming, extraordinarily exaggerated, David Brooks-inspired intro:

"Princeton is a work hard/play hard school. Thursday and Saturday nights are party nights at Princeton on the Street. Friday nights are quieter. A typical weekend works like this: Finish class on Thursday and study until it's time to go out to the street (11pm or so), stay out all night, sleep and go to class on Friday. Work all day Friday and Friday night, and all day Saturday. Do the Street thing again on Saturday night and work all day Sunday. Only at Princeton do you have structured playtime. It's as if students can't have fun at other times and must be out drinking on those nights."

After the jump: the descriptions of the clubs in full.

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