Feb Club
Seniors party every night at Feb Club.
Oh my, Yale's Feb Club tradition, with which I was all too intimately familiar during my days there. Feb Club was a party every night for the month of February -- designed to chase the winter blues away with.... let's just call it "good cheer."
Thayer said the organizers have stressed the social aspect over the drinking aspect and have been careful to follow all of the Undergraduate Regulations regarding parties -- parties on weekdays must end by 11 p.m. and on weekends by 1 a.m. -- when they are held on campus because of Feb Club's "sketchy" past.Feb Club had a "terrible reputation" because it became associated with heavy drinking and wild parties, especially after it was taken over by the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at some point during the '80s or '90s, Dziczek said. By the late 1990s the University began to crack down on the gatherings, which were no longer restricted to seniors, according to a News article from 1998.
But Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg said she does not know when the parties were discontinued or if the administration was responsible for stopping them. She said she remembers that the details of the club and the parties were always shrouded in mystery.
I tried to make very one my sophomore and junior years but don't think I ever got more than 21 or 22 of them. One of my roommates did make them all, I think.
So congratulations to the latest batch of Elis on reviving this forgotten tradition!
