Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...congratulate the members of the Skull and Bones. We only wish that Harvard's final clubs would follow their lead. Then we could finally be satisfied...
After 159 years as an all-male club, Yale's Hoary Skull and Bones secret society inducted seven women last Thursday. Meanwhile, Harvard's nine all-male final clubs remain "in the 19th century," as one Bones member said of his club's dying exclusionary policy...
...unlikely replay of the civil rights struggle, the members' welcome move to equality was stymied by the club's tradition-bound graduate board of directors, which opposed the decision and changed the locks on the Skull and Bones "tomb." The Bones' graduate board even proposed an absurd compromise plan calling for "separate but equal" facilities for women...
...long-overdue decision to admit women to the prestigious organization is encouraging. Whether or not current Skull and Bones members have the legal right to ignore their graduate board's wishes is questionable but really secondary. If Bones members are unable to gain access to the tomb, they can find another meeting place...
EVEN IF the final clubs do follow the Skull and Bones' lead and induct women, they will still have far to go to erase the elitism which lies at the foundation of such organizations...