Campus Club
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Campus Club was one of the undergraduate eating clubs at Princeton University. Located on the corner of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue, Campus was founded in 1900. Campus was one of the eating clubs that abandoned the selective bicker process to choose members non-selectively, a status it held for over 20 years.
In 2004, in an attempt to restore the waning popularity of the club, the club's board pressured the undergraduate officers to reinstate bicker, causing Campus to become one of six selective clubs (out of eleven total clubs). However, due to the unpopularity of bicker among its members, Campus Club returned to being a sign-in club in the spring of 2005. Unfortunately, in the face of another year of exceptionally low membership and resulting financial trouble, Campus Club closed later the same year.
In November, 2005, the former members and alumni of Campus Club voted to donate the building to the University, under the condition that the mansion remain a social venue for Princeton students.
[edit] Trivia
- Campus Club's motto was "First on the Street, first in our hearts, last to go home," referring to its location as the first club along Prospect Avenue.
- The basement men's room featured charmingly pretentious graffiti that included reworkings of key lines from Villon's Ballad of the Dead Ladies that were intended to compliment attractive female members of the club.
- One campus publication characterized the Campus membership as talkative poodles yapping on couches.
- The club hosted a performance by the noted post-punk Boston band Mission of Burma on November 19, 1982.
- At one point in the club's history, noted Sunday night chef Armond created a tradition with his reliably tasty London Broil, broccoli and mashed potatoes.
- Club members cherished their tradition of pelting neighboring Tower Club with water balloons propelled with a funnel-and-surgical tubing slingshot called a Funnellator. For several years towards the end of the club's life, new members being initiated into the Club would throw Eggo waffles at Tower while listening to the Ride of the Valkyries, a practice known as the "Luftwaffle."
