The Bush tribe do not take kindly to inquiries about the elite order, and John Kerry has refused to answer questions about his involvement. Who can tell if she has supped from the same old skull as her dad, or brandished the same femur? Howard Dean's daughter is quietly studying here, as well as one of the Bush twins. It is a privilege offered only to final-year students. Only around 15 new members per year are admitted from each class of 1,300. Allisa is wary of my investigative urges and walks down the block to avoid being seen with me.
It is an enormous, ugly, triple-locked building that doesn't even have a doorbell.Īfter a bit of poking about, the only signs of human occupation are two large sacks of washing propped-up against a basement door. "I would still want to know them, and I probably would join if I could."Īccompanied by my guide for the afternoon, secretary of the Yale College Democrats, Alissa Stollwerk, we walk by the Skull and Bones lodge - home to the bizarre initiation rites outlined earlier - which is known to all on campus as the "tomb". "Yeah, they're captain of the football team-types. I'd definitely want to meet them," says one laconic youth. "If I was hiring for a job, and I found out they were a Bonesman. They had just been talking amongst themselves about the irony of the near-certainty that a "Bonesman" will end up in the White House again next year, and they're not sure whether it's a good idea, or just plain bad. I am talking to a bunch of 19-year-old male sophomores (second-year students), finishing off a mountain of food in the dining hall of one of Yale's prettiest colleges. I mean, there weren't even women admitted then." "I think most people here would want to be asked to be a member, though I don't think it has the power it did in Bush and Kerry's day. Well, in maturity, both men are certainly running, and it's impossible to know how much their membership of the exclusive Skull and Bones Society has helped them reach the positions of eminence they now occupy: President of the United States, and senatorial lead-contender for president.
The final words of the initiation ceremony, according to the intrepid New York Observer journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who has secretly recorded the secret incantations, centre around the command, "Run neophyte!" John Kerry and George Bushs junior and senior were members of the secretive Skull and Bones society at Yale university.
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