![]() Skull and Bones, which dates back to 1832, said in its note to students that the prank caller was exploiting the society's “mysterious nature” and encouraged people who received such calls to report the incident to Yale police or their college dean. “I figured it was a prank since I hadn't heard about them calling them like this,” Addonizio said. He played along and handed his phone to his brother, who was asked inappropriate questions. Some students described an anonymous caller who instructed them to hand their phones to somebody nearby and that asked that person questions about the student's sex life.Ĭole Addonizio, a Yale junior, said he suspected it was a prank soon after he received a call from somebody who said it was the start of the “tap” process. But Yalewhich celebrates three centuries of luminous atainments this weekendought to question what benefit it. The Yale police department has received three complaints of harassing phone calls from somebody claiming to be from Skull and Bones, according to university spokesman Tom Conroy, who said the cases remain open. The RTA filing claims Skull and Bones exists for the benefit of Yale University. “While famously its mantra has been ‘Never respond, never explain,’ because it doesn't see itself as a public organization, in today's climate to have allowed that to happen could conceivably damage the society's reputation,” Richards said. The note sent out to members of Yale's junior class through the student government was a rare public statement, according to David Alan Richards, author of “Skulls and Keys: The Hidden History of Yale's Secret Societies.” Its secrecy has fueled the public's curiosity about a group that counts former Secretary of State John Kerry and both Presidents Bush among its past members. The campus society has figured prominently in books, films and conspiracy theories. ![]()
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