Nation IN BRIEF : CONNECTICUT : Yale Society Closed for Inviting Women

Skull and Bones, the all-male secret society at Yale University whose members include President Bush, was ordered closed for a year by its alumni directors after rebellious students invited women to join. The alumni directors have been debating whether to end the private club’s 159-year-old tradition as a bastion of male-only bonding. But the 15 seniors in the society, frustrated by the lack of action, notified the board of directors that they had invited seven women and eight men to join. In response, the board over last weekend replaced the locks on the “Tomb,” the windowless, mausoleum-like building in New Haven where the society meets, and suspended operations for a year.