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Yale University's Scroll and Key will become the fifth of the school's seven secret societies to go co-ed when it takes in its first women members next fall, students and alumni said this week...
Alumni of the "Key" last week approved a student vote taken earlier this month that decided to change the society's selection--"tap"--and admissions policies to admit women, according to The Yale Daily News...
...Scroll and Key's alumni include several New York mayors and former Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti. Giamatti, who is now baseball commissioner of the National League, said he thought the decision was "a fine thing" but would not comment further...
Scroll and Key's decision comes at a time when other Ivy League colleges are examining the role of social clubs on college campuses. In December, Harvard's Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination charging gender discrimination against the Fly Club, one of nine Harvard all-male final clubs. At Princeton, recent incidents of alcohol poisoning resulted in the filing of criminal charges of serving alcohol to minors against five eating club officers and their two clubs...
Harvard and Yale students and alumni said they thought Scroll and Key's decision to admit women had probably been affected by the activity at other campuses and might have some impact at Harvard...