Princeton University president Dr. Robert F. Goheen announced plans yesterday for the building of an undergraduate quadrangle with dormitory, dining and social facilities for 600 students. The dining facilities, which will provide 250 students with an alternative to membership in one of the University’s 17 supper clubs, will be available to upperclassmen who are not members of clubs, sophomores and some club members who may room at the quadrangle.
Dr. Goheen’s $7,000,000 quadrangle plan was announced at an annual meeting of the Princeton National Alumni Association. It followed close upon campus criticism of the supper clubs, Princeton’s equivalent of fraternities, for discriminating against some sophomores. A group of a dozen or so passed over sophomores charged that they were the victims of anti-Jewish prejudice. While Dr. Goheen refused to accept the charges of bias, the undergraduate University Council, consisting of supper club officers, admitted that exclusivity might involve setting religious quotas on membership.
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