Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cloister Inn
Satisfies  by significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent publications for either the building or the organization which is centered there. See http://books.google.com/books?id=Jw16hrKZffAC&pg=PA84&dq=princeton+%22cloister+inn%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=g8gNT8GgJsjZgAeO7fidBw&ved=0CF4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=princeton%20%22cloister%20inn%22&f=false, an architectural tour guide, which is from the university press but not published by the subject of the article, Cloister Inn. Only a snippet shows up in the search results for http://books.google.com/books?id=6EdUAAAAMAAJ&q=princeton+%22cloister+inn%22&dq=princeton+%22cloister+inn%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vcoNT6mmDcjt0gHF2KzYBQ&ved=0CE4Q6AEwADgU "International hotel design,(1990),  but the search results implies some coverage: "The Cloister Inn, as it was then known, opened its doors in February 1926. The property immediately gained a reputation ..." It is a setting in the popular novel http://books.google.com/books?id=SEEQDJxQ6V0C&pg=PA90&dq=princeton+%22cloister+inn%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vcoNT6mmDcjt0gHF2KzYBQ&ved=0CFYQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=%22cloister%20inn%22&f=false "The rule of four:" (pp 92, 104, 206). From Google News archive, there was a scandal about serving http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9EJYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6846,1544195&dq=cloister-inn+princeton&hl=en alcohol to minors (horrors!) which received coverage by the Associated Press in 1988. The NY Times had http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/14/nyregion/princeton-eating-club-weighs-alcohol-policy.html an article in 1988 specifically about the Cloister Inn serving alcohol to a 19 year old until he "nearly drank himself to death" and how the club was stopping the serving of alcohol. It said the university had no control over policies at the off-campus eating clubs.  The New York Times had http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/18/style/campus-life-princeton-trying-to-erase-their-image-as-drinking-clubs.html a 1990 story about severely intoxicated Princeton undergrads who imbibed at eating clubs, with a paragraph about the Cloister Inn. There was an AP story in 1990 about students getting alcohol poisoning at initiations at the eating clubs, and it mentions why they exist: the school did not(at the time) allow frats and sororities.  In 2007, UPI carried http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2007/10/13/Princeton-club-leaders-face-booze-charges/UPI-85241192252361/ a wire story about the Cloister Inn and other clubs serving alcohol to minors. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=5703351 AP also discussed the eating clubs as being alumni-owned, historic, and an important center of student social life, as well as being threatened with shutdowns for serving alcohol to minors. AP had http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/charges_dropped_against_2_prin.html another 2007 story about this and other clubs accused of providing alcohol illegally. In sum, sources exist to support notability. Besides the sources cited above, there have been some article in the local college paper with in-depth coverage, and also in the Harvard paper. Though at AFD some deprecate college papers as being supportive of notability, they can provide information to flesh out a story. The Inn's own website has some historical information which can be incorporated in a non-copyvio way as well.  An alternative would be to merge body of reliably sourced information to the article Eating clubs at Princeton University. That article at present has no mention of the widely documented problems of serving alcohol to minors, and alcohol poisoning, or the 1958 antisemitism allegations.(see also http://books.google.com/books?id=zwf-Ofc--toC&pg=PA124&dq=jew+princeton+%22eating+club%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sNQNT_j2L4mygwebwsyhBw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%20%22eating%20club%22%20antisemitism&f=false
— User:Edison, 18:23, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)