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Takeover at Princeton’s QuadrangleFirst-generation, low-income students are commandeering one of the college’s historically elitist eating clubs.
Agent of change: Daniel Pallares Bello, the outgoing president of Quadrangle.Credit...Eva O'Leary for The New York TimesDec. 12, 2019
In the fall of 2017, when Daniel Pallares Bello was a sophomore at Princeton, a friend invited him to visit Quadrangle, a stately mansion on Prospect Avenue across from campus that houses a student eating club.
But unlike many undergraduates excited to take part in the more than century-old tradition of eating and socializing in the wood-paneled refectories and felted billiard rooms of Fitzgeraldian fame, Mr. Pallares was conflicted.
“The first thing I was told by low-income upperclassmen was that they weren’t a place for us,” said Mr. Pallares, now 22, a first-generation college student on full scholarship. “They’re too expensive, they’re not for Latino people like me, it wouldn’t be a friendly environment.”
Quadrangle is one of the smallest of the 11 eating-club houses on “the Street,” as students call it, though there is still a video game room with seven gaming systems, a billiard room with two pool tables, a solarium where students play board games, a TV room with a 60-inch screen, ample nooks for chatting or studying, a pub alcove with high-top tables and a 200-person dining room that offers made-to-order meals and fancy soda and espresso machines.
Image Shield me: A suit of armor near a bookshelf at the club.Credit...Eva O'Leary for The New York TimesMr. Pallares was impressed. He was also surprised by how welcoming the club was. He decided to join, using summer job earnings to cover the initial $600 fee. But he didn’t tell his mother, a county clerk, or his father, a landscaper, who live in The Woodlands, Texas.
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