How do the four-year residential colleges interact with the eating clubs?
The eating clubs offer very attractive physical settings in which relatively small groups of third- and fourth-year students can organize their dining, social and in some cases cultural, intellectual and other aspects of their lives. These organizations afford valuable opportunities for exercising independence, creating and strengthening friendships, and developing leadership. Because the number of third- and fourth-year students that will ultimately be added by the approved increase in the size of undergraduate classes (approximately 250) is equivalent to the number of additional third- and fourth-year students that can be accommodated in the new residential college facilities, the total number of third- and fourth-year students potentially available to become members of eating clubs should remain the same. The creation ofa new residential college option for some upperclass undergraduateshas not diminished existing eating club opportunities — indeed, the new option has potential bene
The eating clubs offer very attractive physical settings in which relatively small groups of third- and fourth-year students can organize their dining, social and in some cases cultural, intellectual and other aspects of their lives. These organizations afford valuable opportunities for exercising independence, creating and strengthening friendships, and developing leadership. Because the number of third- and fourth-year students that will ultimately be added by the approved increase in the size of undergraduate classes (approximately 250) is equivalent to the number of additional third- and fourth-year students that can be accommodated in the new residential college facilities, the total number of third- and fourth-year students potentially available to become members of eating clubs should remain the same. The creation of a new residential college option for some upperclass undergraduates has not diminished existing eating club opportunities — indeed, the new option has potential be
