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Societies find their secret niche

Staff Reporters, Staff Reporters
Published Thursday, April 6, 2006

This week, they are hard to ignore. Cloaked figures huddle at the doors of Au Bon Pain; blindfolded juniors hunch in the drizzly Swing Space courtyard; a boy stands with a megaphone on Broadway and tells a girl across the street to "Swing on that pole. Come on. You're not gonna get in like that." The madness is everywhere: It is secret society tap week at Yale, and tonight is tap night.

Among the elite organizations that populate Princeton, Harvard and Yale, Yale's secret societies are perhaps the best known. With movies like "The Skulls," bestsellers like "Secrets of the Tomb,"...

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