Saxe says he believes the PSK is primarily for the undergraduates.

So he hopes the students will take three things from club life: "a high measure of camaraderie, close friendships and a chance to interact with members from many generations."

Sears, who is also a member of the Fox club's graduate board, says his board also views the club as primarily for undergraduates.

Because of the graduates' faith in the undergraduate members, the Fox was the only club that allows guests that did not change its non-member policy this year.

"The kids get to be responsible, pretty self-regulating," Sears says. "So when [other clubs] put constraints on how members treat the club, [the Fox] didn't feel a need to join the bandwagon."

Sears says the Fox has maintained good relations through following simple, straightforward regulation.

"We have a maximum of two guests--one being male," Sears says. Those are the rules. You don't bring the eight people next to you at the [Crimson Sports] Grille."

D.U. Know

In 1995, Kane and the rest of the D.U. undergraduate and graduate members exemplified the tense relationship that appears to have become more prevalent this past year.

When a football recruit and a member had a violent scuffle one night, that was the final straw for the graduates.

"The grad trustees thought there had been a bad incident in the club," Kane says. "It was a violation of guest policy--he should not have been there."

The graduates decided there were only two possible plans of action.

"Considering what had been going on in the clubs, either we needed a carefully controlled alcohol and guest policy or we need to stop operation," he says. "If undergraduates would not live by basic rules, we would not support a late night drinking club."

Kane says the undergraduates and the graduates spoke a number of times and attempted to come to some sort of agreement, but they never connected.

When the undergraduates voted that they wanted the club to remain the same, the graduate board said no, Kane says.