Source-Dateline zero.com 2011 Skull and Bones meeting at White House
Austan Goolsbee has had a long and close relationship with Barack Obama. He advised Obama in his 2004 Senate race, and was the senior economic adviser throughout the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. After that, he served as Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers from September 9, 2010 until August 5, 2011.
In addition to his memorable political life, Mr. Goolsbee has also had a notable time within the secret society Skull & Bones. According to The Yale Daily News, Goolsbee was part of an important and influential chapter in Bones history. Notably, 1991 class was the first to tap women initiates.
His life as a Skull and Bones member is not a thing of the past. During his time as the senior economic adviser, Mr. Goolsbee chaired a meeting with other Bonesmen inside the White House. The meeting was never publicized, although White House records show that it took place. Meeting and details of the meeting are unavailable; and, unsurprisingly, those who attended the meeting will not talk about it.
Late afternoon on March 4, 2011, eight college students arrived at the White House to meet with Mr. Goolsbee. All eight were all members of Skull and Bones, reports McKay Coppins at BuzzFeed.
How does Coppins know? He says that he cross-checked the White House visitor’s log with leaked names of Skull and Bones members. This isn’t hard to do, because the Ivy League gossip blog IvyGate regularly has the roster leaked to them.
Writes Coppins: “Cross-checking their list with the White House visitor log on March 4 reveals that at least eight members of the 2010-2011 class were present at the Goolsbee meeting.”
He continues: “According the White House records, the students met with Goolsbee in room 234 of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at around 4:00 p.m., proceeded to a tour of the White House, and then returned their I.D. badges by 5:00pm.”
Coppins said that he attempted to email the students who attended the White House meeting, but he received no reply. Incidentally, Coppins doesn’t mention any of the attendees by name, except for Mr. Goolsbee — which is fine by me. If anyone badly wants to know, it isn’t hard to look it up.
He also emailed Mr. Goolsbee, in an attempt to get some hint of what was discussed at the White House S&B meeting. Mr. Goolsbee’s reply was this:
(sound of people leaving the room)
Secret Societies
Marcus Tullius Cicero-(106-43 BC) From a speech given in the Roman Senate in 58BC
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
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Excerpt from Book- Secrets of The Tomb
Sometime in the early 1830s, a Yale student named William H. Russell - the future valedictorian of the class of 1833 - traveled to Germany to study for a year. Russell came from an inordinately wealthy family that ran one of the United States' most despicable business organizations of the nineteenth century: Russell and Company, an opium empire. Russell would later become a member of the Connecticut State Legislature, agGeneral in the Connecticut National Guard, and the founder of the Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven. While in Germany, Russell befriended the leader of an insidious German secret society that hailed the death.s head as its logo. Russell soon became caught up in this group, itself a sinister outgrowth of the notorious eighteenth century society of the Illuminati. When Russell returned to the U.S., he found an atmosphere so anti-Masonic that even his beloved Phi Beta Kappa, the honor society, had been unceremoniously stripped of its secrecy. Incensed, Russell rounded up a group of the most promising students in his class - including Alphonso Taft, the future Secretary of War, Attorney General, Minister to Austria, Ambassador to Russia, and father of future President William Howard Taft - and out of vengeance constructed the most powerful secret society the United States has ever known.
The men called their organization the "Brotherhood of Death," or, more informally, "The Order of Skull and Bones." They adopted the numerological symbol 322 because their group was the second chapter of the German organization, founded in 1832. They worshipped the goddess Eulogia, celebrated pirates, and covertly plotted an underground conspiracy to dominate the world.
Fast forward 170 years. Skull and Bones has curled its tentacles into every reach of American society. This tiny club has set up networks that have thrust three members to the most powerful political position in the world. And its power is only increasing - the 2004 Presidential election might showcase the first time each ticket has been led by a Bonesman. The secret society now, as one historian admonishes, is "'an international mafia' . . . unregulated and all but unknown." In its quest to create a New World Order that restricts individual freedoms and places ultimate power solely in the hands of a small cult of wealthy, prominent families, Skull and Bones has already succeeded in infiltrating nearly every major research, policy, financial, media, and government institution in the country. Skull and Bones, in fact, has been running the United States for years.
Skull and Bones cultivates its talent by selecting members from the junior class at Yale University, a school known for its strange, Gothic elitism and its rigid devotion to the past. The society screens its candidates carefully, favoring Protestants, or, now, white Catholics, with special affection for the children of wealthy, East Coast Skull and Bones members. Skull and Bones has been dominated by approximately two dozen of the country.s most prominent families - Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord, Phelps, Rockefeller, Taft, and Whitney, among them - who are encouraged by the society to inter-marry so that the society.s power is consolidated. In fact, the society forces members to confess their entire sexual histories so that Skull and Bones, as a eugenics overlord, can determine whether a new Bonesman will be fit to carry on the bloodlines of the powerful Skull and Bones dynasties. A rebel will not make Skull and Bones; nor will anyone whose background in any way indicates that he will not sacrifice for the greater good of the larger organization.
As soon as initiates are allowed into the "tomb," a dark, windowless crypt in New Haven with a roof that serves as a landing pad for the society's private helicopter, they are sworn to silence and told they must forever deny that they are members of this organization. During initiation, which involves ritualistic psychological conditioning, the juniors wrestle in mud and are physically beaten - this stage of the ceremony represents their "death" to the world as they have known it. They then lie naked in coffins, masturbate, and reveal to the society their innermost sexual secrets. After this cleansing, the Bonesmen give the initiates robes to represent their new identities as individuals with a higher purpose. The society anoints the initiate with a new name, symbolizing his rebirth and re-christening as Knight X, a member of The Order. It is during this initiation that the new members are introduced to the artifacts in the tomb, among them Nazi memorabilia - including a set of Hitler's silverware - dozens of skulls, and an assortment of decorative tchochkes: coffins, skeletons, and innards. They are also introduced to "the Bones whore," the tomb's only full-time resident, who helps to ensure that the Bonesmen leave the tomb more mature than when they entered.
Members of Skull and Bones must make some sacrifices to the society - and they are threatened with blackmail so that they remain loyal - but they are remunerated with honors and rewards, including a graduation gift of $15,000 and a wedding gift of a tall grandfather clock. Though they must tithe their estates to the society, each member is guaranteed financial security for life; in this way, Bones can ensure that no member will feel the need to sell the secrets of the society in order to make a living. And it works: no one has ever publicly breathed a word about his Skull and Bones membership, ever. Bonesmen are automatically offered jobs at the many investment banks and law firms dominated by their secret society brothers. They are also given exclusive access to the Skull and Bones island, a lush retreat built for millionaires, with a lavish mansion and a bevy of women at the members. disposal.
The influence of the cabal begins at Yale, where Skull and Bones has appropriated university funds for its own use, leaving the school virtually impoverished. Skull and Bones. corporate shell, the Russell Trust Association, owns nearly all of the university.s real estate, as well as most of the land in Connecticut. Skull and Bones has controlled Yale.s faculty and campus publications so that students cannot speak openly about the secret society. "Year by year," the campus' only anti-society publication stated during its brief tenure in 1873, "the deadly evil is growing."
The year in the tomb at Yale instills within members an unwavering loyalty to Skull and Bones society. Members have been known to stab their Skull and Bones pins into their skin to keep them in place during swimming or bathing. The knights (as the student members are called) learn quickly that their allegiance to the society must supercede all else - family, friendships, country, God. They are taught that once they get out into the world, they are expected to reach positions of prominence so that they can further elevate the society.s status and help promote the standing of their fellow Bonesmen.
This purpose has driven Bonesmen to ascend to the top levels of so many fields that, as one historian observes, "at any one time The Order can call on members in any area of American society to do what has to be done." Several Bonesmen have been senators, congressmen, Supreme Court justices, and cabinet officials. There is a Bones cell in the CIA, which uses Skull and Bones as a recruiting ground because the members are so obviously adept at keeping secrets. Society members dominate financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and Brown Brothers Harriman, where at one time more than a third of the partners were Bonesmen. Through these companies, Skull and Bones provided financial backing to Adolf Hitler because the society then followed a Nazi - and now follows a neo-Nazi - doctrine. At least one dozen Bonesmen have been linked to the Federal Reserve, including the first Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve. Skull and Bones members control the wealth of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford families.
Skull and Bones has also taken steps to control the American media. Two of its members founded the law firm that represents the New York Times. Plans for both Time and Newsweek magazines were hatched in the Skull and Bones tomb. The society has controlled publishing houses such as Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. In the 1880s, Skull and Bones created the American Historical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Economic Association so that the society could ensure that history would be written under its terms and promote its objectives. The society then installed its own members as the presidents of these associations.
Under the society's direction, Bonesmen developed and dropped the nuclear bomb and navigated the Bay of Pigs invasion. Skull and Bones members had ties to Watergate and the Kennedy assassination. They control the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission so that they can push their own political agenda. Skull and Bones government officials have used the number 322 as codes for highly classified diplomatic assignments. The society discriminates against minorities and fought for slavery; indeed, as evidence eight out of twelve of Yale.s residential colleges are named for slave owners while none are named for abolitionists. The society encourages misogyny: it did not admit women until the 1990s because members did not believe women were capable of handling the Skull and Bones experience and because they said they feared incidents of date rape. This society also encourages grave robbing: deep within the bowels of the tomb are the stolen skulls of the Apache Chief Geronimo, Pancho Villa, and former President Martin van Buren.
Finally, the society has taken measures to ensure that the secrets of Skull and Bones slip ungraspable like sand through open fingers. Journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who wrote a long but not probing article about the society in the 1970s, claimed that a source warned him not to get too close.
"What bank do you have your checking account at?" this party asked me in the middle of a discussion of the Mithraic aspects of the Bones ritual.
I named the bank.
"Aha," said the party. "There are three Bonesmen on the board. You'll never have a line of credit again. They'll tap your phone. They'll. . ."
. . . The source continued: "The alumni still care. Don't laugh. They don't like people tampering and prying. The power of Bones is incredible. They've got their hands on every lever of power in the country. You'll see - it's like trying to look into the Mafia."
In the 1980s, a man known only as "Steve" had contracts to write two books on the society, using documents and photographs he had acquired from the Bones crypt. But Skull and Bones found out about Steve. The society broke into his apartment, stole the documents, harassed the author, and scared him into hiding, where he has remained ever since. The books were never completed. In Universal Pictures' Spring 2000 thriller The Skulls, an aspiring journalist is writing a profile of the society for the New York Times. When he sneaks into the tomb, the Skulls murder him. Similarly, in the real Skull and Bones tomb is a bloody knife in a glass case. It is said that when a Bonesman stole documents from the society and threatened to publish Skull and Bones. secrets if they did not pay him a determined amount of money, the society used that knife to kill him.
This, then, is the legend of Skull and Bones.
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It is astonishing that so many people continue to believe, even in modern America in the twenty-first century, that a tiny college club wields such an enormous amount of influence on the world.s only superpower. The breadth of clout ascribed to this organization is practically as wide-ranging as the leverage afforded to the satirical secret society of the Stonecutters in an episode of the television show The Simpsons. The Stonecutters theme song included the lyrics:
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do.
Who leaves the Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do.
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do.
Certainly, the society does cross boundaries in order to attempt to stay out of the public spotlight. When I wrote an article about the society for The Atlantic Monthly in May 2000, an older Bonesman said to me, "If it's not portrayed positively, I'm sending a couple of my friends after you." After the article was published, I received a telephone call at my office from a fellow journalist, who is a member of Skull and Bones. He scolded me for writing the article - "writing that article was not an ethical or honorable way to make a decent living in journalism," he condescended - and then asked me how much I had been paid for the story. When I refused to answer, he hung up. Fifteen minutes later, he called back.
"I have just gotten off the phone with our people."
"Your people?" I snickered.
"Yes" Our people."
He told me that the society demanded to know where I got my information.
"I've never been in the tomb and I did nothing illegal in the process of reporting this article," I replied.
"Then you must have gotten something from one of us. Tell me whom you spoke to. We just want to talk to them," he wheedled.
"I don't reveal my sources." Then he got angry. He screamed at me for a while about how dishonorable I was for writing the article.
"A lot of people are very despondent over this!" he yelled. "Fifteen Yale juniors are very, very upset!"
I thanked him for telling me his concerns.
"There are a lot of us at newspapers and at political journalism institutions," he coldly hissed. "Good luck with your career" - and he slammed down the phone.
Skull and Bones, particularly in recent years, has managed to pervade both popular and political culture. In the 1992 race for the Republican presidential nomination, Pat Buchanan accused President George Bush of running "a Skull and Bones presidency." In 1993, during Jeb Bush's Florida gubernatorial campaign, one of his constituents asked him, "You're familiar with the Skull and Crossbones Society?" When Bush responded, "Yeah, I've heard about it," the constituent persisted, "Well, can you tell the people here what your family membership in that is? Isn't your aim to take control of the United States?" In January 2001, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd used Skull and Bones in a simile: "When W. met the press with his choice for attorney general, John Ashcroft, before Christmas," Dowd wrote, "he vividly showed how important it is to him that his White House be as leak-proof as the Skull & Bones 'tomb.'"
Later that year, the Universal Pictures film introduced the secret society to a new demographic perhaps uninitiated into the doctrines of modern-day conspiracy theory. At about the time the movie was being pre-screened in theaters - and perhaps in anticipation of the election of George W. Bush - a letter was distributed to Bonesmen from Skull and Bones headquarters. .In view of the political happenings in the barbarian world,. the memo read, .I feel compelled to remind all of the tradition of privacy and confidentiality essential to the well being of our Order and strongly urge stout resistance to the seductions and blandishments of the Fourth Estate.. This vow of silence remains the society.s most important rule. Bonesmen have been exceedingly careful not to break this code of secrecy, and have kept specific details about the organization out of the press. Indeed, given the unusual, strict written reminder to stay silent, members of Skull and Bones may well refuse to speak to any member of the media ever again.
But they have already spoken to me. When? Over the past three years. Why? Perhaps because I am a member of one of Skull and Bones' kindred Yale secret societies. Perhaps because some of them are tired of the Skull and Bones legend, of the claims of conspiracy theorists and some of their fellow Bonesmen. What follows, then, is the truth about Skull and Bones. And if that truth does not contain all of the conspiratorial elements that the Skull and Bones legend projects, it is perhaps all the more interesting for this fact. The story of Skull and Bones is not just the story of a remarkable secret society, but a remarkable society of secrets, some with basis in truth, some nothing but fog. Much of the way we understand the world of power involves myriad assumptions of connection and control, of cause and effect, and of coincidence that surely cannot be coincidence.
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Yale UniversityAddress
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The Study of History at Yale
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History has been taught at Yale since President Thomas Clap introduced specifically historical courses in the 1760s, and the Department of History has existed since 1919, when Yale first divided its faculty into academic departments. History was a popular course of study when majors first were introduced after World War I, and it became the largest major in the 1950s. For more than a half-century since, between 15 and 20 percent of Yale undergraduates have majored in History, and undergraduate History courses draw between 4000 and 5000 enrollments each year.
Yale awarded its first History Ph.D. in 1882 to Clarence Winthrop Bowen for a dissertation entitled "The Boundaries of Connecticut," which was published in the same year. Since then, the Department has awarded more than 3000 graduate degrees to an array of graduates who have pursued often brilliant careers as scholars, teachers, and administrators in universities, government, and private business. About 150 History graduate students currently are in residence, and the Department accepts between 20 and 25 new students into its graduate programs each year.
Yale's distinguished History faculty—among the most eminent in the world—teach and write the histories of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States and Canada, from ancient times to the present, seeking to make its study as exciting and rewarding in the twenty-first century as it was when President Clap first introduced it at Yale before the American Revolution.
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You are invited to view an illustrated timeline of Yale’s history in addition to reading the brief overview on this page.
Yale’s roots can be traced back to the 1640s, when colonial clergymen led an effort to establish a college in New Haven to preserve the tradition of European liberal education in the New World. This vision was fulfilled in 1701, when the charter was granted for a school “wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State.” In 1718 the school was renamed “Yale College” in gratitude to the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale, who had donated the proceeds from the sale of nine bales of goods together with 417 books and a portrait of King George I.
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Yale College survived the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) intact and, by the end of its first hundred years, had grown rapidly. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought the establishment of the graduate and professional schools that would make Yale a true university. The Yale School of Medicine was chartered in 1810, followed by the Divinity School in 1822, the Law School in 1824, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1847 (which, in 1861, awarded the first Ph.D. in the United States), followed by the schools of Art in 1869, Music in 1894, Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1900, Nursing in 1923, Drama in 1955, Architecture in 1972, and Management in 1974.
International students have made their way to Yale since the 1830s, when the first Latin American student enrolled. The first Chinese citizen to earn a degree at a Western college or university came to Yale in 1850. Today, international students make up nearly 9 percent of the undergraduate student body, and 16 percent of all students at the University. Yale’s distinguished faculty includes many who have been trained or educated abroad and many whose fields of research have a global emphasis; and international studies and exchanges play an increasingly important role in the Yale College curriculum. The University began admitting women students at the graduate level in 1869, and as undergraduates in 1969.
Yale College was transformed, beginning in the early 1930s, by the establishment of residential colleges. Taking medieval English universities such as Oxford and Cambridge as its model, this distinctive system divides the undergraduate population into twelve separate communities of approximately 450 members each, thereby enabling Yale to offer its students both the intimacy of a small college environment and the vast resources of a major research university. Each college surrounds a courtyard and occupies up to a full city block, providing a congenial community where residents live, eat, socialize, and pursue a variety of academic and extracurricular activities. Each college has a master and dean, as well as a number of resident faculty members known as fellows, and each has its own dining hall, library, seminar rooms, recreation lounges, and other facilities.
Today, Yale has matured into one of the world’s great universities. Its 11,000 students come from all fifty American states and from 108 countries. The 3,200-member faculty is a richly diverse group of men and women who are leaders in their respective fields. The central campus now covers 310 acres (125 hectares) stretching from the School of Nursing in downtown New Haven to tree-shaded residential neighborhoods around the Divinity School. Yale’s 260 buildings include contributions from distinguished architects of every period in its history. Styles range from New England Colonial to High Victorian Gothic, from Moorish Revival to contemporary. Yale’s buildings, towers, lawns, courtyards, walkways, gates, and arches comprise what one architecture critic has called “the most beautiful urban campus in America.” Yale's West Campus, located 7 miles west of downtown New Haven on 136 acres, was acquired in 2007 and includes 1.6 million square feet of research, office, and warehouse space that provides opportunities to enhance the University’s medical and scientific research and other academic programs. The University also maintains over 600 acres (243 hectares) of athletic fields and natural preserves just a short bus ride from the center of town.
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Skull and Bones
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The Damned Story: Yale University boasts one of the most exclusive and enigmatic groups in the world, one that dates back approximately 175 years and features numerous U.S. presidents, senators and governors as well as some of the world’s powerful elite among its members.
Considering it’s a “secret society,” quite a bit seems to be known about Skull & Bones, including its history and alumni, you know, how like Area 51 is the U.S. government’s “secret” UFO and special aircraft testing ground that pretty much everyone on the planet knows about.
Essentially, Skull & Bones was formed in 1832 when Yale senior William Russell, upset with the rules of Phi Beta Kappa, organized a group of classmates into a new campus organization. Initially calling itself the Eulogian Club (in honor of the goddess of eloquence Eulogia), the group grew in stature, campus influence and wealth over the decades. In 1856, the club incorporated and moved into their current location at 64 High Street where a windowless Egyptian-style building called “The Tomb” was built. Additional wings were added to the original structure twice near the beginning of the 20th century. Accounts describe the interior as allegedly having a kitschy-goth vibe with plenty of skulls, skeletons and other spooky decor, plus all sorts of special rooms and chambers — we’re imagining Jekyll & Hyde, maybe with less animatronic characters. The building itself has been officially designated a New Haven landmark.
William Rusell’s little social club has steadily continued to grow, featuring among its ranks such historical figures as Walter Camp, U.S. president William Howard Taft, Prescott Bush and William F. Buckley Jr. Recently prominent alumni include U.S. presidents George H.W. and George W. Bush, as well as U.S. senator John Kerry.
Of course, as with any good secret society, what goes on inside its shrouded walls has been fodder for speculation. From various accounts, it appears that members — or Bonesmen, as they refer to themselves — meet there on Thursday and Sunday evenings during their senior years at Yale to participate in the group’s long-held rituals and traditions, plus socialize and enjoy the trappings of being tapped to be in such an exclusive club. For some reason, I tend to doubt they whittle, practice the “Electric Slide,” bake cookies or help each other with their calculus homework, but hey, you never know. It is a secret, after all.
Apparently, once a bonesman, always a bonesman, and the vow of silence taken at initiation about the society’s activities is a lifelong commitment. Also part of the deal seems to be all the rights and privileges that come with membership, from political favors to influential recommendations to special rewards and financial windfalls.
Simply: It’s good to be the king — or a Bonesman.
If you’re interested in learning more, Alexandra Robbins’ Secrets of the Tomb offers many of the secrets of Skull & Bones, allegedly provided directly by anonymous Bonesmen. Or you can be totally lazy and go for a highly fictionalized and sensationally inaccurate route and just rent The Skulls.
By the way, in researching Skull & Bones, we called one of our good friends who works at Yale who informed us about two other lesser-known secret societies on the campus: Wolf’s Head and Scroll & Key, both of whom also have private buildings on Yale’s campus in New Haven.
Scroll & Key came along in 1842, being formed by members who were dissatisfied with Skulls & Bones. “Keys” as they are known, also count themselves among the power elite, with notable alumni including Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Paul Mellon, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Stone Phillips, Gary Trudeau and Dr. Benjamin Spock (the baby doctor, not the vulcan). The Keys have their own Tomb at 484 College Street.
Wolf’s Head was formed in 1883 when a number of students who were unhappy with Skulls & Bones’ and other secret societies at Yale, joined together to form their own group. (See a pattern here?) “Grey Friars” as the members of this group are known, seem to not take themselves nearly as seriously as the other groups; prominent alumni include Charles Ives, Edward Harkness, William Wrigley, William Ford and Dick Jauron. Their New Hall is located at 210 York Street.
Our Damned Experience: We have been past The Tomb — the windowless building on High Street that is the society’s home — numerous times through the years, including most recently in January 2009. Not unlike Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, we have never seen anyone going in or coming out. Ditto the Wolf’s Head Hall and Scroll & Key Tomb.
Our source at Yale told us that when one of the Skull & Bones Tomb requires maintenance, the facilities workers are met at the door, escorted to the exact place in need of service, then escorted back out of the building. Not surprisingly, despite being a social organization, Bonesmen aren’t so social with those outside the group.
If You Go: Unless your last name is Bush or Rockefeller, or you’re a particularly well-connected Yale senior, you’re not getting inside of Skull & Bones any time soon. Like the rest of us plebes, you can stare at the outside of the building, which is located on High Street in New Haven, just past the archway and directly behind the Yale Art Gallery, across the street from Dwight Hall.
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Bonesman
Skull and Bones was founded in 1832 after a dispute among Yale's debating societies, Linonia, Brothers in Unity, and the Calliopean Society, over that season's Phi Beta Kappa awards; its original name was "the Order of Skull and Bones."[1][3]
The only chapter of Skull and Bones created outside Yale was a chapter at Wesleyan University in 1870. That chapter, the Beta of Skull & Bones, became independent in 1872 in a dispute over control over creating additional chapters; the Beta Chapter reconstituted itself as Theta Nu Epsilon.[4][5][6]
The first extended description of Skull and Bones, published in 1871 by Lyman Bagg in his book Four Years at Yale, noted that "the mystery now attending its existence forms the one great enigma which college gossip never tires of discussing."[7] Brooks Mather Kelley attributed the secrecy of Yale senior societies to the fact that underclassmen members of freshman, sophomore, and junior class societies remained on campus following their membership, while seniors naturally left.[8]
Skull and Bones owns an island in the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York named Deer Island:
The 40 acre retreat is intended to give Bonesmen an opportunity to "get together and rekindle old friendships." A century ago the island sported tennis courts and its softball fields were surrounded by rhubarb plants and gooseberry bushes. Catboats waited on the lake. Stewards catered elegant meals. Although each new Skull and Bones member still visits Deer Island, the place leaves something to be desired. "Now it is just a bunch of burned-out stone buildings," a patriarch sighs. "It's basically ruins." Another Bonesman says that to call the island "rustic" would be to glorify it. "It's a dump, but it's beautiful."
—Alexandra Robbins, TheAtlantic.com
Once the pinnacle of the college's social system, the society remained central to campus life through the 1950s, but since then some say it has lost much of its luster.[9]
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The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the wealthiest and second oldest[1][2] Yale secret society. Each year, the society admits fifteen rising seniors to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions.
History
Scroll and Key was established by John Addison Porter, with aid from several members of the Class of 1842 and a member of the Class of 1843, Wiliam Kingsley, after disputes over elections to Skull and Bones Society. Porter, William Kingsley, Enos Taft, Samuel Perkins, Homer Sprague, Lebbeus Chapin, George Jackson, Calvin Child, Charlton Lewis, and Josiah Harmer were among the society's first members.[3][4] Theodore Runyon, Issac Hiester and Leonard Case were also early members from the Class of 1842. William Kingsley, the namesake of the alumni organization, was a member of the Class of 1843. Initially, members met in ornately decorated rented rooms that burned down in December 1842, forcing them to relocate.
The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head Society.[5] In the initial years after Scroll and Key's founding, Skull and Bones held a more prominent role in Yale social circles. A 1871 publication on the Yale social scene by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, as Bagg continued to relate, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."[6]
Members of the Yale classes of '55 and '56 published the sophomoric "Inside Eli, or How to Get On at Yale," a pamphlet that provided current students with the authors' "collective wisdom about how Yale really worked". In it, they note that "Scroll and Key is probably the leading society in the eyes of the average Yale man. It always has many of the more distinguished class wheels. Its members are generally pleasant, civilized, and intelligent. They are the Yale ideal," they joked.[7]
The society went "coed" in 1989, a move that distanced some of the older alumni from the society but saw the return of many more who opposed the male-only admissions policy. Chief among them was Yale President Bartlett Giamatti who "loved" the society, but vowed "never to visit again unless women were admitted".[8]
In addition to financing its own activities, "Keys" has made significant donations to Yale over the years. The John Addison Porter Prize, awarded annually by Yale since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the Yale University Press, which has funded the publication of The Yale Shakespeare and sponsored the Yale Younger Poets Series, are gifts from Keys. The society has also endowed a number of professorships and continues to fund multiple undergraduate prizes for students of Yale College.[9][10][11]
Mark Twain was admitted to the society in 1868 as an honorary member.[12]
Wolf's Head Society
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Source-Wikipedia Wolf's Head Society
Wolf's Head Society (W.H.S.) is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Membership is recomposed annually of fifteen or sixteen Yale University students, typically juniors from the college. A delegation spends its year together answerable to the Phelps Association, composed of past members.
The society was founded when fifteen members of the Yale Class of 1884, with help from a few members of the Yale Class of 1883 who were considered possible taps for the existing societies, chose to abet the creation of The Third Society, later known as Wolf's Head Society.[1][2][3] The society tapped eventually over 300 Yale College alumni and some prominent Yale Law School faculty soon after the incorporation. The fellowship was joined in part to counter the dominance of Skull and Bones Society in undergraduate and university affairs.[3][4][5]
The incorporation defeated the last attempt to abolish undergraduate secret societies at Yale, and continued the tradition of founding a society if enough potential members thought they had been overlooked by the extant groups. Bones was organized in 1832 after a dispute over selections for Phi Beta Kappa awards. Scroll and Key Society, the second society at Yale, was organized in 1841 after a dispute over elections to Bones. The Third Society's founding was likewise motivated by the sentiment among some outsiders that they deserved insider status. "[A] certain limited number were firmly convinced that there had been an appalling miscarriage of justice in their individual omission from the category of the elect," the society founders among the Yale Classes of 1883 and 1884, and some earlier classes, agreed.[3][6][7]
Yale 2012 Secret Society "Tap List"-America's next generation of 'NWO Leaders'...
Source-The Yale herald.com/New Taps revealed
Scroll and Key
Betsy Cowell (a Blonde pre-med FroCo often mistaken for the VP Business Development and Licensing, Surgical Devices at Covidien)
Paloma Pineda (who “has spent quite a bit of time in the Dominican Republic“)
Paloma Pineda
Trumbull College '12
Paloma is of mixed Mexican and Romanian heritage and was born and raised in Seattle, WA, where she attended Lakeside School. She is currently a sophomore in Trumbull and hopes to double major in Ethics, Politics, and Economics and International Studies. She keeps busy playing varsity volleyball, working at the Admissions Office, and tutoring an employee of Atticus, a local caf�, in English as a second language. She is also a staff member of Elmseed, the first student-run micro-finance organization in the country, and active in CARE, an organization for international development. She has spent quite a bit of time in the Dominican Republic, and spent a summer working at a law firm in Buenos Aires. She is currently in the process of picking up French, and hopes to venture to a French-speaking country next.
Dinah Landshut (a field hockey player from Munich with 437 Facebook friends)
Rae Ellen Bichell (Mark Oppenheimer’s secretary)
Julie Zhu (who plays “Here Comes the Sun” in Harkness Tower)
Mark Sonnenblick (who once acted alongside Keysman Cordelia Istel ’10!)
Joe Breen (the mind behind this photograph)
Zara Kessler (who once had coffee in the same cafe as Taylor Swift!)
Raphael Shapiro (who wore tighty-whities in A Winter’s Tale)
Kate Lund (a luddite)
Joe Carlsmith (famed section asshole)
Joe O’Rourke (who hates gravity)
Bradley Elkman (who is one of 10 members of the “Dept. of Competitions” for YES)
Jeff Gordon (Elisa Gonzalez’s paramour and a member of the “men’s club ultimate frisbee team“)
Jakob Dorof (who is “creatively inclined” and has 262 (!!!) Twitter followers)
Skull and Bones
Katie Miller (some West Point dropout)
Diandra Fermin (aka “Mamajuana“)
Esther Zuckerman (self-proclaimed “Blog Queen of Yale”)
Geoff Dunham (who loves “snow skiing” but assumedly not “waterskiing”)
Nick Roth (a graduate of Deerfield and an intern at Grilled Cheese to Go)
Jeania Ree Moore (Kevin Fitzroy Beckford’s girlfriend, who once contentiously argued “Life is a learning process.“)
Eric Delgado (a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity)
Adi Kamdar (whose blog was last updated December 15th)
Chidi Akusobi (who, in high school, wrote a play in which “teenagers battle with substance abuse, body image, pregnancy, sexuality, and depression“)
Eliza Bagg (who loves crossword puzzles)
Max Uhlenhuth (who dared challenge the hegemony of the Yale Tour Guide mafia)
Alison James (apparently stronger than she looks)
By Jill Cousins
Alison James has always been the type of person who likes to stay busy. So during her sophomore year at Lake Mary High School, after competing on the cross-country team in the fall, she knew she wanted to find a winter sport.
One of her cross-country teammates who happened to be on the Rams’ weightlifting team talked Alison into giving the sport a try. Always up to a new challenge, Alison signed up for weightlifting, figuring it would get her in good shape for track season in the spring.
Instead, Alison ended up finding the sport that would become her calling.
“I enjoyed it right away,” says Alison, 21, now a junior at Yale University. “I realized I had an inclination to develop muscle, and it was a lot of fun. I was hooked!”
Not only did Alison enjoy weightlifting, she excelled. At Lake Mary High, the 5-foot-2 powerhouse was state runner-up in the 110-pound class during her senior year, setting a state record in the clean-and-jerk with a 160-pound lift.
Upon high school graduation in 2008, Alison began the transition from high-school weightlifting, in which competitors do the bench press and clean-and-jerk lifts, to Olympic weightlifting, in which competitors do the snatch (where the barbell is lifted from the ground to an overhead position) instead of the bench press.
Alison joined Team Florida Altamonte and began training with the team’s head coach, Danny Camargo, a 1995 Lake Mary graduate who was a member of the U.S. National Team. Danny, an international-level coach, began preparing Alison for the rigors of national competition.
Alison won her first national title a year ago, during her freshman year at Yale, taking first place at Junior Nationals in San Francisco. The next month, she won Collegiate Nationals in Shreveport, Louisiana, and was runner-up at the same meet last April in Marquette, Michigan. In 2009, Alison was also named to the U.S. Junior Team.
This past December, Alison posted her most impressive victory to date. She took the gold medal in the 48kg weight class (105.6 pounds) at the American Open in Cincinnati with personal records in the snatch (57kg or 125.4 pounds), clean-and-jerk (74kg or 162.8 pounds) and total weight (131kg or 288.2 pounds).
Alison was bronze medalist at the American Open – which included competitors of all ages – at the previous year’s event.
What makes Alison’s accomplishments in weightlifting even more remarkable is that fact that her schedule is filled with so many other things. In addition to being a student at an Ivy League university, Alison is also an accomplished musician and singer. She has played piano since age six, and also plays the violin, guitar, bass, and drums.
Alison, who is majoring in Italian, is also “worship leader” for Yale Students for Christ, leading the music portion of weekly services. Alison’s competitive nature was fueled by her relationship with older brother Taylor, a former football and baseball star at Lake Mary. She said they would “compete in pretty much any activity,” from card games to sports to academic achievements. Alison made straight A’s through high school and graduated from Lake Mary as salutatorian.
“I just really don’t like sitting still,” Alison says. “I thrive on trying new things and advancing in the things I’m doing. I get the most enjoyment out of pushing myself and seeing how far I can go.”
Alison will take a break from weightlifting competition this semester, while she studies abroad in Italy. She plans to get back into serious lifting in 2012, as she aims for both the World University Games and the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.
“I believe she has the ability to qualify and compete in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials,” says Danny, who continues to coach Alison at her meets. “She’s still considered a baby [by Olympic standards], but going to the Olympic Trials would give her great experience. I think [making the Olympic team in] 2016 is a strong possibility for her.”
Alison definitely has the talent to succeed in all of her endeavors. But with so much on her plate these days, she’s just taking things one day at a time.
“I’ll just take it as far as I can,” Alison says. “It’s hard to project past 2012, because I don’t know where I’ll be. But I love weightlifting. It’s taken a lot of sacrifice to continue to do this, but it’s definitely been worth it.”
Helen Jack (who “did not run in high school, but, instead, cross-country skied.“)
Brian Odhiambo (who chose the iPod playlist for Electro!)
Wolf's Head
Jessica Cole (who thinks “Yale is amazing.”)
Hope Weissler (a Calhoun Master’s Aide)
Phillip Kaplan (who has a near-perfect attendance record at the Lizzie)
Dan Hornung (Mike Jones’s personal masseur)
Nick Murphy (who lives with Dan Hornung)
Julia Averbuck (who was once an understudy for the Nutcracker)
Peregrine Heard (whom Midnight at Yale described as “eager to experience life as an adult.“)
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (who sent the Yale Bulletin a press release about his Winter Break plans)
John Ettinger (a legacy)
Ryan Brenner (who weighs 180 pounds)
Courtney Fukuda (a judge for Iron Chef Yale)
Kevin Adkisson (who sends campus publications pictures of SML gargoyles whenever they’re short an article)
Guillermo Peralta (a runner up for the YCC vice presidentship)
Armine Afeyan (who is six-foot-one!)
IvyGateblog.com/2010-2011 Skull and Bones Membership list
Yale Dailynews.com/$580 Million dollars to Yale
City | 3:48 p.m. | Feb. 17, 2012 | By Tapley Stephenson
Yale raised $580 million in 2011, report says
An annual report released by the Center for Aid to Education on Wednesday showed that 14 Connecticut universities raised a combined $746 million in 2011, with Yale receiving more than three quarters of all donations.
Spurred by the end of the Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign, the University’s $580 million total was the third largest in the country, falling short of Stanford's $709 million and Harvard's $639 million. According to the report, national fundraising totals exceeded $30 billion in the 2011 budget year, an 8.2 percent jump from 2010.
In Connecticut, Yale’s fundraising far outpaced the second place University of Connecticut, which raised $38.6 million. Other top fundraisers included Wesleyan University with $36.5 million, Trinity College with $24.7 million and Fairfield University with $16.2 million.
Five other Connecticut institutions raised over $5 million, the report said.
[Via Hartford Courant]
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