Geronimo Descendants Sue Skull & Bones, Yale - Page 2

JHS · 02-19-2009, 12:18 PM

The Yale secret societies aren't really frat-like, because (a) they only have seniors, (b) they're not very big, and (c) some of them are actually pretty secret -- no outsiders permitted in, etc. That tends to put a damper on parties. What they ARE is a weird, pretty harmless, and sometimes entertaining kind of small club.

They are also pretty egalitarian, especially Bones. Pure legacies like George W. were the exception, not the rule there. As Booklady says, most of the people tapped by Bones were fairly public campus leaders -- the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, sports captains, people who made things happen -- or sometimes less public leaders (one friend in Bones was famous for elaborate, daring pranks, including one that backfired and got him suspended for a while), or public talents (star singers, actors, musicians, writers). Race and wealth weren't big factors.

collegehopefull · 02-19-2009, 12:24 PM

^ Then if it isn't a frat, it seems like a club of and for hypercompetent people.

Booklady · 02-19-2009, 01:03 PM

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^straight from the mouth of a real bonesy.

Heh. I didn't go to Yale. And even if I had, in the era I would have been there Bones definitely didn't accept women!

IBclass06 · 02-19-2009, 03:22 PM

The rumor has been going around for a long time.

Whose Skull and Bones?

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good luck suing a secret society whose members are among the most powerful people in the world.

They're also suing Obama.

nunya · 02-19-2009, 04:20 PM

Bush's fault!

uh, no...

Kerry's fault!

uh, wait...

Obambie's fault!!!!

collegehopefull · 02-19-2009, 04:22 PM

^ I imagine that's what the YPU sounds like on occasion.

People so far to the left and right they're hanging off.

bluewhitebulldog · 02-19-2009, 10:47 PM

urgh! conspiracy theories so funny, my lips laugh even before my brain gets the message.
Listen, Skull and Bones is everywhere. They would get away with it. You know, one of those cases where you hear nothing after the BIG blast? This is one of them.

BUT, my uncle always says a secret is kept by "ONE person, and one soul onlayyy"
We will see how right he is. He will be 90 this September, a good enough time to give the case to evolve... or disappear.

stacym · 02-20-2009, 12:00 AM

didn't read the article from OP but i read somehwere that prescott bush (dubya's grandfather) had something to do with stealing geronimo's bones.. true?

collegehopefull · 02-20-2009, 08:05 AM

If anything, we'll probably just revert back to the 'legal' precedent we use to deal with the stealing of things that belong to Native Americans.

wjb · 02-20-2009, 10:09 AM

Today's NYT on the lawsuit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us...eronimo&st=cse

JHS · 02-20-2009, 10:30 AM

Ha! The key is those Fort Sill Apaches who oppose digging up the current grave! I bet they can get some really good pro bono legal counsel to help them with that position, lots of help with their expenses, and compensation for their trouble, too! If you never disturb the existing grave, you never have any evidentiary basis for believing that Bones has anything belonging to Geronimo. (And, of course, unless you believe Sen. Bush Never Told A Lie it's overwhelmingly likely that Bones DOESN'T have anything belonging to Geronimo.)

2VU0609 · 02-20-2009, 11:03 AM

Alexandra Robbins discusses this subject extensively in her book, Secrets of the Tomb, along with lots of other good Skull & Bones tales.
stacym, I believe she ties it to what you've heard about the involvement of one of the elder Bush family members.

southernbbq · 02-20-2009, 11:28 AM

No comment.

ns89 · 02-20-2009, 05:39 PM

is skull and bones only for undergraduate?

Mal77 · 02-20-2009, 05:46 PM

Pretty sure. You get "tapped" to join your junior year on tap night.