Is Skull and Bones so powerful?

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<p>According to this article, it is:
Yale</a> Daily News - The man who duped the Ivy League

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Maharaj denied forging this transcript and blamed Cazares for the situation. Cazares had threatened to access his Columbia records through his Skull and Bones connections, he said in a letter to Yale’s lawyers. (Cazares was tapped for the senior society in April 2007.)

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As the lovers’ spat raged through online proxies, someone posted Maharaj’s Social Security number on IvyGate using a Yale IP address. Maharaj contacted IvyGate, which decided to shut down commenting on the thread. </p>

<p>Maharaj blames Cazares and Skull and Bones for posting his number. </p>

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“I’m sorry, it’s not you, I don’t trust your paper,” he told this reporter. “You’re Yale’s comrade.” </p>

<p>When told that the News is fully independent and the administration does not tell it what to print, he replied, “And then what happens if one of your editors is in Skull and Bones?”

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<p>The last part is pretty much expected, but the first two - having access to Columbia's and Yale's administrative offices - seem pretty scary. How do Skull and Bones get so powerful?</p>

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<p>No, it’s not that powerful. Note that all those claims were relayed second hand by Maharaj who is at best a little bit mentally unstable. He’s made numerous false and ridiculous claims (he’s in all this trouble for forging academic records and recommendations to get into Yale). Not exactly the kind of person who’s likely to be providing true information about, well, anything. Especially when it fits into his paranoid delusions.</p>

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<p>The fact is many of the campus’ opinion leaders and other prominent folks are tapped by the societies. That’s correlation, not causation. Because the YDN editor is tapped by Bones or another society does not mean that he/she is their puppet. Plus, the tap season comes later in the school year, just about when the editorial staff hands over their duties to Juniors —</p>

<p>Ignore that fraud.</p>

<p>Just a side note: if Skull & Bones WERE this all-encompassing power elite, why would they bother with a person of such insect-like significance?</p>

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<p>Well, he was the boyfriend of one of the society’s members. Plus he was pretty sweet at English. And at Yale’s standards, that’s pretty baller.</p>

<p>Clearly a maniac, though.</p>

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<p>Dude. That guy got kicked out of Yale for LYING ON HIS TRANSCRIPT. But you’ll believe whatever he says about Skull & Bones?</p>

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<p>If it was all that powerful, you wouldn’t be reading this.</p>