"I am sorry that it has taken so long to remove this final roadblock," he said. Buckley's group, said yesterday that he did not know if the opponents would pursue further legal action.Īmong those voting for admitting women was Senator Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma. Before the case came to trial, however, the factions decided to settle the matter with a new vote. They alleged that the vote had been fraudulent and filed suit.
Buckley, questioned the wisdom of shattering a bastion of male bonding. In July, following months of wrangling, the alumni voted 368-to-320 to admit the women.īut just days before the new members were to be inducted in September, a group of disgruntled alumni, including Mr. When the 1991 delegation tapped the women last year, the alumni board changed the locks on the building and nullified the selection. Throughout the evening, clusters of Bonesmen emerged from the building, slipped silently through the clamoring reporters, and caucused in nearby restaurants and bars before returning to the weighty matter at hand - whether six women should be allowed among the 15-member 1992 delegation. There are over 700 living Skull and Bones alumni those who could not attend were permitted to vote by proxy. More than 125 members, many of them elderly and requiring assistance on the stairs, had squeezed past reporters Thursday afternoon, making their way into the hulking, windowless, mausoleum-like building on the New Haven campus that serves as clubhouse for the 159-year-old society. can no longer rightly be considered just a "good old boy" network. Boren and the conservative columnist William F. No "Running" of the Skull and Keys Society at the University of California this year.Shrouding their deliberations in a silence worthy of the nation's most famous secret society, members of Yale University's Skull and Bones - Bonesmen all since 1832 - voted Thursday night to allow Boneswomen into their midst.Īnd with that vote, a group that lists on its honor roll President Bush, Senator David L. ^ "No Public Pranks This Semester by "Skull and Keys." ".^ "Running Of Skull and Keys Society Under Feminine Ban".They were marched in to see the President, who gave them a short talk. After being put through the toils around North Hall they were marched in a body to South Hall. Notwithstanding the threatening state of the weather yesterday, the Skull and Keys initiates appeared on the campus at 8:30 in dress suits with duck trousers. ^ "Skull and Keys Running Annual Initiation of the Inter-Frat Society To-Day".The Elmhurst district In East Oakland volunteered to clean up the streets. ^ "Neophytes In Front Of The Skull And Keys Tomb".He wrote the ritual and other ceremonials for Skull and Keys - the junior-senior society at the University of California - which still ranks as an honor society.
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Frank Norris took part in the college dramatics and would have made a name for himself upon the professional stage had he chosen that branch of art for his future career. ^ a b c "Frank Norris In His Chapter".However, if Theta Nu Epsilon had come from the senior society Skull & Bones, then it only made sense, (to some minds), to create a senior society from it. There were probably many reasons for this, one of which is that Berkeley was known for having many of its initial personnel come from Yale, and if Berkeley had a senior society, it would have been possible to recreate the Tap Day ceremonies at Berkeley. In 1892, the Zeta Chapter created the society of Skull & Keys for senior members. ^ a b c "The Zeta & Delta Pi Chapters at The University of California at Berkeley".California, University of - Skull and Keys, 1892
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Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. The public initiation of this dramatic society chosen from the Senior and Junior classes has come to be one of the great events of the College year. The eighth annual running of the Skull and Keys society takes place to-day on the campus.
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