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This year’s presidential election vs going to be a class war: Class of 1968 versus Class of 1966. “IfYalies were going to vote based on who’s an alum, you’d have to tlip a coin,” said sopho more Alissa Stollwerk, secretary of the Yale College Democrats. President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry graduated from Yale University in the 1960s. a time of upheaval at Yale and campuses across the country. Both shied away from the radicalism of the day but joined the same secret society and followed similar pursuits, their paths diverging after graduation. When Kerry graduated in 1966 with a degree in political science, opposition to the Vietnam War was building. Yale still required students to wear jackets and ties at dinner, and no female undergraduates were admitted. By the time Bush earned a degree in history in 1968, Yale was simmering with activism against the war and in favor of labor unions and other causes. Dinner jackets were gone, and female undergraduates arrived the following year. Both men were chosen to join Yale’s top secret society — Skull and Bones. Each year, 15 seniors are tapped for the 172- year-old club, which owns a windowless crypt on campus and a private island in the St. Lawrence River. The experiences ami influence of Bonesmen. as members are known, have reached mythic pro portions. Their rites and member ship arc supposed to be secret, although initiations reportedly include lying in a coffin and con fessing personal sexual secrets. Candidates cross paths at Yale At Yale University in the 1960s, President Bush was a bom Yalie and Sen. John Kerry was a jock and political junkie. Both were members of the secretive club - Skull and Bones. Bush on Yale campus Kerry's Yale team hockey photo GRADUATED 1968 1966 DEGREE History sports Baseball clubs Delta Kappa Epsilon (fraternity), Rugby Club, Inter-Council, Skull and Bones Political science Hockey, lacrosse, soccer Connecticut Intercollegiate State Legislature, Fence Club, Haunt Club, Liberal Party, Skull and Bones Yale Debating Association Political Union, Yale Young Democrats, Yale Young Republicans SOURCE Yalo Untveraity If Presidents Tuft and George H.W. Bush were members. Classmates remember Kerry as a big man on campus who played several sports, including junior varsity hockey. As a freshman, he also dated Jacqueline Kennedy’s half-sis ter. Janet Auchincloss. “He had a lot of demands on his time, and for him to play hockey in winter and play j.v. — that was a fair amount of dedication to the sport, and he played hard,” recalled Gordon Walker, a classmate who man aged the team. Kerry, whose father worked for the State Department after graduating from Yale, as involved in politics from the moment he arrived in New Haven. He w as head of the Yale Political Union, a college debat ing society, and joined the Fence Club, which was popular with preppy, blue-bkxxf students. Bush w as a bom Yalie as well as a legacy. His grandfather. Prescott Bush, the future senator from Connecticut, graduated from the Ivy League school. His father, the fomier president.»as a student when he was bi there. The line continues iliis spring when Bush’s daughie: Barbara, earns a Yale degree “He was congenial, gregan ous. relatively unremarkable ini sense.” recalled a classmate am! fellow team member, Jim Latimer. ”1 enjoyed knowing him. He w as entirely pleasant Despite the legacy, Kern is more popular at Yale, his politics favored by the liberal-leaninc student body. 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