A Sober Look at the Street
This is why Spectator editors get hosed
Jack Clabby '02
Issue date: 9/16/02 Section: Princeton
If you intend to supplement an academic
diet with Milwaukee's Best
and memory loss, then slide this
guide into your back pocket. Old
Nassau's answer to Fraternity Row, the
Street will begin pulsingThursdays and
Saturdays, and where will you be? Not
in your room, we hope, but swallowing
quarters, leering awkwardly at members
of the opposite sex, and waking up
sick beneath a foreign ceiling. Welcome
to Princeton, where you are encouraged
to swill free brew in opulent
mansions until you boot.
Dial Lodge
Defunct club. Now serves as department
office for some vague social
science or language. Also out-of-bounds
for football games on Colonial's lawn.
Colonial
Surging back after a prolonged
slump, this Phoenix was resurrected after
a large class signed in two years ago,
supplanting a traditional membership of
born-again Christians and Daily
Princetonian staffers with one of enthusiastic
young socialites. The bottled
beer, weekly live music, and elaborate
Houseparties carnival rides have led to
whispering about possible blackmail or
outright theft from Ivy's deeper coffers.
Tiger Inn
Fraternities. Sweet sports teams.
Intermittent police raids. Freshman
triplings will sneak in through the fire
escape window and stumble into a labyrinth
of hot, smoky rooms, only to find
that nobody wants or notices them. Like
everyone else, they will seek in vain for
a fresh beer, and invariably settle for one
of the floaters dating back to the late
70s, when the club was less crowded
and the membership less bellicose.
DEC
A Spectator elder who recalls the
death rattle of DEC from his freshman
year compared the taproom experience
with spelunking. Now the abandoned
member of the Dial-Elm-Cannon triumvirate
only sees action during cookouts
for the Hellenic Studies department.
Stevenson
Dry eating experience, so you'll have
diet with Milwaukee's Best
and memory loss, then slide this
guide into your back pocket. Old
Nassau's answer to Fraternity Row, the
Street will begin pulsingThursdays and
Saturdays, and where will you be? Not
in your room, we hope, but swallowing
quarters, leering awkwardly at members
of the opposite sex, and waking up
sick beneath a foreign ceiling. Welcome
to Princeton, where you are encouraged
to swill free brew in opulent
mansions until you boot.
Dial Lodge
Defunct club. Now serves as department
office for some vague social
science or language. Also out-of-bounds
for football games on Colonial's lawn.
Colonial
Surging back after a prolonged
slump, this Phoenix was resurrected after
a large class signed in two years ago,
supplanting a traditional membership of
born-again Christians and Daily
Princetonian staffers with one of enthusiastic
young socialites. The bottled
beer, weekly live music, and elaborate
Houseparties carnival rides have led to
whispering about possible blackmail or
outright theft from Ivy's deeper coffers.
Tiger Inn
Fraternities. Sweet sports teams.
Intermittent police raids. Freshman
triplings will sneak in through the fire
escape window and stumble into a labyrinth
of hot, smoky rooms, only to find
that nobody wants or notices them. Like
everyone else, they will seek in vain for
a fresh beer, and invariably settle for one
of the floaters dating back to the late
70s, when the club was less crowded
and the membership less bellicose.
DEC
A Spectator elder who recalls the
death rattle of DEC from his freshman
year compared the taproom experience
with spelunking. Now the abandoned
member of the Dial-Elm-Cannon triumvirate
only sees action during cookouts
for the Hellenic Studies department.
Stevenson
Dry eating experience, so you'll have