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- <text id=91TT0902>
- <title>
- Apr. 29, 1991: American Notes:Campuses
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- CAMPUSES
- Rattling the Bonesmen
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Skull and Bones, Yale University's elite secret society, is no
- longer the bastion of WASP privilege it was when George Bush was
- a member. Today the club is diverse enough to include black,
- Hispanic and openly gay members--but no women. So this year's
- 15 outgoing "Bonesmen," concerned that the society was seen as
- an anachronism in an undergraduate body that is 45% female,
- voted in early April to admit seven women to next year's club.
- </p>
- <p> The group's alumni board decided that diversity was
- getting out of hand. Last week the board changed the locks on
- the group's windowless New Haven clubhouse, called the Tomb, and
- announced that the society was suspended for next year.
- </p>
- <p> The rebellious Bonesmen vow that if the board does not
- relent, Bones will simply meet elsewhere next year. "Our main
- objective is communication between members," says Bonesman
- Douglas Webster. "That can be done anywhere."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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