Scroll and Key - Pranks

Pranks

Many pranks have been played at the expense of the society in recent years. Such pranks are often critiques of the secret society system at Yale, but reveal the importance and attraction that societies, and Scroll and Key especially, still hold for Yale students. Some of the most recent pranks include:

• November 5, 2009: In the wake of the Late-2000s financial crisis, members of the Yale Pundits prank-senior society set up a lemonade stand in front of Scroll and Key, posing as members of the society trying to replenish its endowment.

• March 2, 2012: Sign is chained to Scroll and Key's outer fence saying it is for sale, while flyers are distributed throughout campus telling of an open house.

• March 22, 2012: A fake Scroll and Key letter was sent out to much of the Junior Class inviting them to the society's building for the "rites of spring." Around 100 hopefuls arrived at the tomb to find cloaked students, likely of the Yale Pundits prank-society. The masked figures offered the students to join them for pizza and began playing a version of “duck, duck, goose” using the words “scroll” and “key."