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The eating clubs offer juniors and seniors the opportunity to become a part of a close-knit community. They reinforce existing friendships while also introducing you to a wonderful, new, and diverse group of Princetonians. The clubs offer a home on campus where students can come together to enjoy a great meal, take a breath to relax, and develop life-long
friendships.

Hannah Paynter ’19, President of the Interclub Council, President of Cloister Inn

You join the club because your friends are there, but then by the time you graduate you’ve also made dozens of new great friends for the rest of your life.

Liam Morton '02, Cap and Gown Club

Each of Princeton’s clubs is different and through the years has achieved a distinct personality and set of traditions. This is as it should be, for it will be a sorry day for the world if ever such distinctions and peculiarities, and the especial loyalties they invoke, are lost.

Struthers Burt, Class of 1904

By joining an eating club, I’ve gained a sense of home and community that keeps me grounded on campus. I’m incredibly grateful for the life-long friendships I’ve developed and the many opportunities it has given me to grow my community and enrich my Princeton experience.

Rachel Macaulay ’19, President of Tower Club

Eating clubs serve as the perfect bridge between your underclassman and upperclassman years. They reinforce the strong friendships you've established and encourage new relationships with a diverse new group of people. By spending time talking, eating, studying, and socializing, we find that we are surrounded by some of the most brilliant yet modest and talented yet compassionate people, all from incredibly diverse backgrounds with a wide range of different life experiences and stories to share.

Katrina Maxcy '14, Former President of Colonial Club

The eating clubs are so much more than where 70 percent of Princeton juniors and seniors take their meals. They are where students are studying, collaborating on assignments, and encouraging each other as they write the last page of that junior paper or senior thesis. They are where students are coming together at tables to discuss an interesting news story, a great movie someone has seen recently, a campus issue, or any of a cornucopia of possible topics. They are where students are socializing and celebrating the end of a stressful day or a stressful week at high-quality social events. They are where students are engaging in meaningful service to the community outside of the Orange Bubble. The eating clubs are unique to Princeton, and they exemplify what is unique about Princeton — a sense of always being able to come home, whether you're just joining as a sophomore or are coming for your 50th Reunion.

Jean-Carlos Arenas '16, Former President of the Interclub Council, Former President of Charter Club

Eating clubs are places in which to find a home on campus. More than just a building to socialize in, they exist to create that feeling of family and acceptance – somewhere where you’re free to just be yourself, and relax into a community that accepts and loves you for you. Being in an eating club allows you to meet so many great people that otherwise you might never have met – people from backgrounds and cultures that differ greatly from your own, but who will nonetheless become some of your closest friends on campus. Being a part of one of these groups enables you to have a community that will always be yours, and that you will continue to be a part of long after you graduate. I find that in my own experience, I am constantly and unerringly amazed by the people I have met through my club, and by the sheer kindness with which everyone treats one another. I wouldn’t trade my eating club experience for anything in the world.

Conor O’Brien ’19, President of Charter Club

The Eating Clubs
of Princeton University

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Spring 2021 Club Admissions: 87% of Sophomores Admitted to 1st or 2nd Choice Club

The Interclub Council (ICC) is excited to report, after a successful virtual admissions process, general statistics from Street Week 2021. This year’s unprecedented virtual Street Week offered a plethora of new challenges for sophomores and club members alike. Sophomores engaged with members on a variety of platforms, including Zoom and Glimpse, and learnt more about…

  • 03/10/2021

ICC Conference on Race and the Eating Clubs

On January 21, 2021, the Interclub Council (ICC) hosted a Conference on Race and the Eating Clubs. The conference was open to all undergraduates regardless of class or eating club affiliation to attend and approximately 120 students participated in the event. The purpose of the event was to address a number of topics surrounding diversity,…

  • 01/24/2021

Spring 2021 club admissions begins Sunday, January 17th at noon

Dear Sophomores and Juniors, We are absolutely thrilled to welcome you into our club community! Over the coming weeks, we hope you – like thousands of Princeton students before you – will discover a community that becomes your home on campus. REGISTER TO JOIN A CLUB beginning Sunday, January 17th at noon Eastern time. Despite…

  • 12/20/2020

Eating Clubs to Remain Closed for the Spring Semester

“The Eating Clubs have agreed to remain closed for the spring semester to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection among students, faculty, University administration/staff and Club employees. This was not an easy decision, as the Clubs and University recognize the important role the Clubs play within the Princeton University community. The University has provided budgetary support…

  • 12/01/2020

Eating Clubs to close for the fall semester due to COVID-19

When Princeton resumes classes this fall, Prospect Street will be dark for the first time in more than a century. In an agreement reached today between the Graduate Interclub Council (GICC), the Undergraduate Interclub Council (ICC), and the University, all operations, dining, social activities and housing will be suspended until January 1st. We do this…

  • 07/17/2020

ICC Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter

The Interclub Council stands in firm solidarity with our Black members, the Black Lives Matter movement, and all of those who oppose the systemic racism which pervades our society. We wholeheartedly condemn the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and all the other people whose names we commit to remembering because they…

  • 06/06/2020

Eating Clubs closing on March 13th for the spring semester

The GICC and ICC, in support of the University’s aggressive approach to limiting the spread of COVID-19, has decided to close the Eating Clubs on March 13th, at the start of spring break, through the rest of the semester. The clubs will be off limits to members and guests and will remain locked at all…

  • 03/12/2020

Spring 2020 Club Admissions: 93% of Sophomores Admitted to 1st or 2nd Choice Club

The Interclub Council (ICC) is excited to report, after a successful admissions process, general statistics from Street Week 2020. This year’s Street Week offered exciting new changes for sophomore participants: the incorporation of a group sign in feature, allowing existing groups to join sign-in clubs together, and the added advantage of a $200 reimbursement from…

  • 02/10/2020

The InterClub Council Responds to the University Task Force Report

The Inter Club Council (ICC) is greatly encouraged to see that the Task Force Report recommendations are aligned with the actions both in progress and already taken by the ICC (Interclub Council) over the past few years. Our shared goal is to help the clubs be as safe, accessible, and welcoming to as many members…

  • 11/12/2018

Fall Club Admissions

To all Princeton Juniors and Seniors: If you are interested in signing into a club this fall or participating in the fall bicker process at Cap & Gown, Ivy, or Tower, contact the ICC President Hannah Paynter by Friday, September 21st. The Interclub Council is working hard to make the Eating Clubs as a whole…

  • 09/18/2018

Learning from Service

Reflections on the work of the CSICC and the University Service and Civic Engagement Task Force Report by Jennifer Liu ‘16 My name is Jennifer Liu and I am a senior in the Woodrow Wilson School and a member of the Princeton Quadrangle Club. For the past two years, I have been a member of…

  • 07/18/2016

Princeton Interclub Council hosts “Conversation on Diversity, Inclusion and the Eating Clubs”

  The Princeton Interclub Council (ICC) hosted a Conversation on Diversity, Inclusion and the Eating Clubs on February 28, 2016 at the Cap and Gown Club. The five major topics discussed were club demographics, socioeconomics, public perception of the clubs, admissions processes, and attrition. Attendees discussed these subjects and brainstormed potential solutions in small groups…

  • 03/24/2016
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