Word: skulled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consideration of admitting women to the Fly Club comes in the wake of a recent decision by Yale's Skull and Bones society to "tap" women for entry into that club for the first time ever...
Speaking on condition of anonymity, members said that the Skull and Bones decision had been the subject of some discussion at the clubs, but that no formal motions had been made to select women as potential members...
...Yale, this generation gap has been taken to an extreme. There, members of the graduate governing board locked current members out of their New Haven "tomb" headquarters in response to the undergraduates' move to admit women to the Skull and Bones club...
...male clubs have come under increasing fire in recent years. At Princeton, a lawsuit forced the remaining all-male eating clubs to admit women. Three U.S. Senators who are alumni of the Yale Skull and Bones club have called for co-education at that club. Presidential candidates and federal judicial nominees routinely resign from all-male clubs...
That sentiment was echoed by another member, who said the Skull and Bones decision had been discussed at his club as a news item, but not as a call to action...