A new article about skull & bones

I came across this today when checking out my usual news sites. there was a news post a metafilter.com about skull & bones. i've heard about them befor obviously, but i haven't read all that much about them, so i don't know if there is anything new here for some of you, but there was some things i didn't know. it's a bit of a long read, but worth it i think.

www.nyobserver.com...

An interesting article. I always thought this was an English institution - based on Oxford.

It seems I was mistaken - can anyone shed light on the English side of this.

The article was interesting but

S&B is just a rather secretive elite frat in Yale. There is nothing special about it, nothing different from any other fraternal society aside from the fact that it has some of the highest born children in this nation.

Its a club, but like any club with powerful members it inspires a great deal of interest