Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...designed to be unignorable -- that is, unendurable. One popular model from Code-Alarm, for example, puts out 125 decibels: "Louder than a police siren," says a publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...
...wake of last month's decision by Yale's Skull and Bones society to tap women as members, attention has increasingly focused on the future of Harvard's all-male clubs. In an interview Friday, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said that if a club did decide to admit women as members, it would have to go through normal channels if it wished to be recognized again as an official student group...
...male campus clubs have faced mounting criticism in recent years. The last of Princeton's eating clubs has moved to admit women, and with the Skull and Bones's decision, only one all-male club, Wolf's Head, remains at Yale. Still, at Harvard, despite repeated calls for change by campus women's groups, the clubs remain much as they were decades ago, at least in terms of gender diversity...
Alumni of the Skull and Bones have locked the undergraduate members out of the club's headquarters. And pressure from graduates reportedly prompted undergraduates in Harvard's Phoenix Club to vote against admitting women two years...
...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...