Infamous Princeton Eating Club Forces Out Two Officers Over Sexist Emails

An infamous Princeton eating club removed two of its undergraduate officers after they sent sexist emails that included an explicit photo, the New York Times reported Monday.

The first email, sent on Oct. 12 to a mailing list of Tiger Inn members by the club’s vice president Adam Krop, included a photo of a woman engaged in a sex act with a man inside the club, according to the Times report. Krop made a crude joke about the photo in the email and referred to the woman pictured as an “Asian chick.”

The club’s treasurer, Andrew Hoffenberg, sent another email to the mailing list later that night encouraging Tiger Inn members to attend a lecture by Princeton alumna Sally Frank and boo her, according to the Times report.

Princeton’s 11 eating clubs, which resemble co-ed fraternities, are not officially affiliated with the university. The Tiger Inn is considered the “frattiest” of the lot and was also the last to admit women in 1991, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal of Frank’s lawsuit that forced the university’s eating clubs to admit women.

The Tiger Inn’s graduate board of governors asked Krop and Hoffenberg to step down last week after club members complained that the emails showed evidence of an atmosphere harmful to women, according to the Times report. Krop and Hoffenberg didn’t respond to the newspaper’s requests for comment.

The Princeton Police Department also began an investigation into the email containing the explicit photo last month, although Sgt. Steve Riccitello told the Times that the case was “pretty much on hold until a victim comes forward.”