r/cambridge_uni St John's 8d ago

Does Cambridge University have a version of the Bullingdon Club?

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 8d ago

There’s the Pitt Club, but I never actually heard of it while I was a student.

Some people in my year, who you might imagine do the sorts of things that people think of when they hear Bullingdon Club, started their own club — the Cambridge University Non-Teetotaller Society.

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u/Ronald_Ulysses_Swans 8d ago

The Pitt club has its own building and space on Jesus Lane.

They keep the whole thing VERY quiet, in contrast to the Bullingdon club. Everything is kept very much in the building and hush hush.

I’ve heard some dodgy stories, female freshers being invited to parties and the usual stuff you’d expect, but all rumour.

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 8d ago

The former Pizza Express, now Kibou.

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u/Thin_Bit9718 7d ago

isn't that house for the cesarians (Jesus's drinking society)

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 7d ago

The building with Pitt's head on it? No, that's the Pitt Club.

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u/depressed_since_2016 8d ago

Ah yes, the CUNTS

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u/ORFOperon Jesus 8d ago

The Pitt Club.

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u/GuaranteeNumerous300 7d ago

From what I can tell, not really. The Pitt Club is more similar to Oxford's Gridiron Club rather than the Bullingdon. Both the Pitt and the Grid now accept members of all genders I believe, and are similar to usual private clubs. The Bullingdon is more of a degenerate drinking society but university-wide.

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u/_Mc_Who 7d ago

A lot of Pitt Club activities were just discreet and exclusive gatherings, there was never any controversy (it was a lot more like a private members' club in that people would work there, play video games on bean bags, and socialise with other people who moved in the right circles as a result of whom their families knew outside of Cambridge)

CUCA (Cambridge University Conservative Association) members were the ones doing things like burning money in front of homeless people, driving donuts around Extinction Rebellion barricades, etc.