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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...
...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...
...first glance, even that modest goal seemed too ambitious. The scroll, ravaged by moisture, had deteriorated further than they feared. "The first fragments we saw looked like someone had poured coffee all over them," recalls Charlesworth. "The leather had turned a kind of liquid, a black goo." Even the best-preserved swaths of text were peppered with tiny holes where acids in the ink had eaten all the way through the parchment. Says another member of the team, Bruce Zuckerman, director of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California: "Time has not been kind...
Even so, the Americans did not give up. They mounted a camera above the scroll and, using powerful flashes and fast shutter speeds to lessen the chance of blurring, worked quickly to capture the document with nearly every imaginable combination of lighting and film. Some blocks of text were photographed as many as 70 times. The breakthrough came when the document was lit from behind and shot with a special Japanese-made infrared film. Recalls Zuckerman: "When we developed the first set of negatives, focusing on one column of text, we could immediately see stuff we couldn...