Yale Secret Society Taps of 2010, Cool Your Jets
The Yale Pundits, culprits of the Scroll and Key application prank earlier this year, have released the list of taps for the top secret societies late last night. The newsletter-style email for the "Yale Does It Nude" addressed to and credited to former YDN editor-in-chief Andrew Mangino cracked what will hopefully be the last swine flu joke. Ever.
By the looks of it, Key is holding onto their YDN legacy by tapping current managing editor Bharat Ayyar. Meanwhile, Skull and Bones kept it presidential, welcoming Yale College Council president Rich Tao along with current publisher of the Yale Record, Nozlee Samadzadeh-Hadidi.
The Pundits' announcement is hot on the heels of Rumpus's publication of the graduating class of 2009 society members list. Regarding our mistake in framing that coverage, we hope you commenters will cheer up now that we've covered everything. After all, this shit's supposed to be secret, right?
After the jump, the original email from the Pundits and a video of a slow loris getting tickled.
From: Yale Daily News
Date: May 7, 2009 1:21:37 AM EDT
To: Andrew Mangino
Subject: Yale Daily News Swine Flu UPDATE
Published Thursday, May 7, 2009
Swine Flu Update: Culprit Isolated; Instructions for Remedial Action Included
Andrew Mangino
Senior Reporter
Influenza Type A H1N1, known colloquially as "Swine Flu," has struck at Yale; current death toll estimates numbers in the dozens. Chief of Yale Police James A. Perrotti has reported that "Domino," the adorable piglet pictured at left, has been positively identified as the transmission vector behind the index case of the disease. Officials at YUHS detained the animal for analysis yesterday and have reconstructed the details of his whereabouts immediately prior to the outbreak: he went to market; he returned home; he had roast beef; the next day he had none; the day before the outbreak he went wee wee wee all over a shipment of Yale Bake Shop "iced gold raspberry cupcakes with organic ingredients" bound for Commons.
Students with dead suitemates and friends are encouraged to extirpate all corpses from dormitory residences to reduce the risk of contagion. The 2010 taps of Skull and Bones, Wolf's Head, Scroll and Key and Leviathan have graciously volunteered their tombs until such time as they can be properly interred. A mass funeral will be held on Beinecke Plaza next week after exam period has ended, with a memorial concert by Tangled Up In Blue and lecture by Shelly Kagan.
Wolf’s Head
Naomi Bland
Skaweniio Barnes
Christopher Labosky
Benjamin Lasman
David Lee
Jacob Liberman
Fernanda Lopez
Mayra Macias Macias
Isabel Chen
Katherine Ettinger
Tess Gerrand
Jason Gilliland
Robert Gruberv Rodney Reynolds
Stephanie Rosenthal
Bradford Williams
Scroll and Key
Joe Alessi
Bharat Ayyar
Alice Baumgartner
Benjamin Beitler
Elias Bildner
Max Engelstein
Catherine Fiedorek
Amila Golic
Cordelia Istel
James Jiang
Mia Kanak
John-Michael Parker
Genet Tek
Rich Scudellari
Julia Weiser
Skull and Bones
Imran Bhaloo
Daniel Gillespie
Laura Gottesdiener
Sameer Gupta
Adrian Latortue
Sophie Merrifield
Abby McCartney
Scott Nelson
Mariel Novas
Nozlee Samadzadeh-Hadidi
Daniel Schlosberg
Rich Tao
Grant Todd
Amira Valliani
Jennifer Wang
Leviathan
Rahela Aziz-Bose
Gregory Barnett
Justin Berk
Alice Buttrick
Jonathan Carlos
Sarah Dewey
Jessica Dilworth
Samuel Duboff
Daniel Geoffrion
Calgary Leveen
Jane Parkes
Eileen Regan
Aaron Reiss
Craig Steen
Anna Swan
Lita Tandon
Officials urge all students, faculty and staff to fend for themselves.
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May 7th, 2009 at 11:51 am
“Yale Does it Nude.”
Not “New.”
May 7th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
What the fuck is Leviathan doing on that list? Their only 2 years old.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Someone in Leviathan (probably Buttrick) is also part of the group that released the list. Basically, they’re trying to raise the group’s profile.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
leviathan’s inclusion is a joke. there is at least one pundit in leviathan who thought their illustrious society would be a hilarious addition to that list
May 7th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
leviathan ftw
May 7th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
no, leviathan is actually pretty legit….
May 7th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
where do they meet? sml?
May 7th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
No society lacking a tomb and endowment is “pretty legit.”
May 8th, 2009 at 11:20 am
J. Wang and A. Valliani are hoesssss.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:26 am
JAJA. They def slept their way in.
May 9th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
OMG I LOVE RICH TAO!!!!
May 10th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I LOVE GRANT TODD!!!
May 10th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
christianarchisti says time for americans to rapturously exit the planet and provide us with the greatest gift of all time. Hey how are you satanic pukes doing, vomit spray for a fine mist that prevails where ever yanks breathe, or is it the acid rain from your cars, what the hell you’re leaving who gives a fuck. How is the rothschild worship going ? Wasn’t it great how teh pentagon chose 9/10 to tell america the pentagon lost $ 2.3 Trillion dollars. Could you use a few Trillion dollars? I know how hard up y’all are for cash, the boys at morgan stanley want to initiate you all into their favorite ceremonies, that being strapping down a poor three legged de-clawed calico cat to a table and after a good huff off some conveniently placed inhalants in the bag next to the cat the new intern initiated is to give the little kittie a good fucking. Hey in between that and holding hands with foley as you and the secret service give it up the ass of some pre teen youth volunteering as a page in washington, you ivy leaguers are getting everything but the real deal huh.
Ah fuck they’re going to scrub this from the web anyways as well but at least I kept y’all amused for a moment huh.
Hey have baron of fleetey feet thomson been over to Europe lately and ordered up his favorite meal, Alex I’ll take shit on a plate for $ 2000 and then piss in mug for a thousand.
Hey that retarded revisionist nazi historian rothschild lover niall ferguson is around there somewhere, kick him in the balls for me too while you’re at it. Give him a real calculator with a few more zeros on there, no not Japanese fighter planes you douchebag, help him count to a Billion Trillion as a nice starting point for the coat of reparations america should be forced to repatriate to the world they killed.
And to all a good fuck you satan.
May 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
IMRAN BHALOO IS A SEXY BEAST.
May 11th, 2009 at 4:35 am
chewbacca.
also, of these groups, I think Wolf’s Head is clearly the chillest. Skulls looks pretty fuckin lame. As does Scroll and Key. Even Leviathan looks pretty pretentious.
May 12th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
scroll and key looks damn chill, though…
May 13th, 2009 at 3:08 am
WOW, Wolf’s Head is clearly the chillest?? They must of been desperate this year. Wolfs Head taps look wack. And we KNOW keys is full of hipsters and geeks.
May 13th, 2009 at 3:31 am
I googled the names of the new Skull and Bones taps and everything that came up was really legit. Didnt find much on the taps for the other societies. Guess they’ll have to try harder next year. What qualifies people for societies besides their achievements?
May 13th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Societies aim to recruit a contingency of individuals that are not only well-accomplished in terms of tangible achievements, but also well-rounded in terms of personality and character. For example, you’ll notice that not everybody in Bones, or any of the other societies for that matter, have accomplishments that are easily discernible via Google (I will say that almost all of them are accomplished, though, in their own ways). As someone who is in another landed society and knows people in all three groups, I can say that the “big three” (Wolf’s Head, Keys, and Bones) all field well-balanced groups. Bones and Wolf’s Head, though, seem to have really great groups of people, but that may be because I don’t know as many of the people in Keys.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
And by “contingency” I assume you mean “constituency”?
Ordinarily I wouldn’t even nitpick like this online, let alone in person, but you clearly used it because you were trying to sound worthy of your landed-society tap. It’s bs like this that makes me pretty glad I didn’t get tapped by anyone, and will be able to graduate secure in my own (Googleable) achievements.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Wow. Contingent. Not constituency. Sorry.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:43 am
you are the awesomest.
May 18th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
you are a fucking idiot. what’s your name? let’s add one more google-able link to it.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:28 pm
i would hate on the people listed, but then i’d be lying to myself. who doesn’t want to be in bones or keys? bring on the flamers and haters.