3/31/2024 0 Comments Yale rumpus skull and bones![]() All but one of the "above-ground" senior societies (in contrast to the "undergrounds," which carried no prestige) were housed in windowless, fortress-like buildings that very much lived up to the term used to describe them: "tombs." Of course, only members could enter them. My Skull and Bones story first: Three decades ago, Yale senior societies struck many people as embarrassments, harking back to an all-too-proximate past when students formed clubs of 15 men to define ever more exclusive circles of the Soon-to-be-Great. ![]() None of this would be worth mentioning, of course, except that Skull and Bones is the unofficial subject of "The Skulls," a movie to be released this month, and Bush has a leading role in the quadrennial national melodrama. The opposites are everything else: Bush was a WASP from a prominent Connecticut Republican family who attended Andover I was a Jew from an actively Democratic California family who went to a public high school. The links are quite specific: Bush and I were members of the Yale Class of 1968, and we were both asked to join Skull and Bones, the most renowned (and strangest) of Yale's nine senior societies. Bush and I were once mirror images, linked and yet opposite. I have just realized, with equal parts horror and glee, that George W.
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