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Move over Skull & Bones, there’s another clandestine student group making waves.

A so-called “secret society” at Georgetown University recently prompted a campus uproar, and The Washington Post’s Ian Shapira sums up the brouhaha nicely:

The anonymous blogger discovered the secret society’s internal e-mails and gleefully published the most amusing material: members deliberating over which ties to wear (Brooks Brothers, of course) and another insider venting about the “extremely left-wing tilt” of the Georgetown University campus tour.

The blogger’s bombshell: The top candidate for student government president was a secret-society member. Published online just days before the election late last month, the exposé sent the campus into an uproar. Web traffic at the Hoya, the student newspaper, surged from an average of 2,500 daily page views to a record 32,000 that day. And the candidate linked to the secret society, Jack Appelbaum, was narrowly defeated.

At Georgetown, only one organization can inspire that kind of mayhem: the Second Stewards Society. The all-male group, which doesn’t identify its members or detail its activities, has long been a source of rumor and controversy on the 104-acre campus, where some students harbor suspicions that group members are pushing a right-wing political agenda — charges the Stewards call absurd.

Apparently the Stewards have a long and distinguished career of making waves and causing controversy on campus.

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