{"id":1048,"date":"2004-07-15T03:51:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T08:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/bush-defends-torture-of-pledges\/"},"modified":"2004-07-15T03:51:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T08:51:04","slug":"bush-defends-torture-of-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/bush-defends-torture-of-pledges\/","title":{"rendered":"bush defends torture of pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"

if it’s good enough for frat boys at yale, then it’s good enough for anyone, eh?<\/p>\n

should i really call this torture? maybe not.<\/p>\n

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Ally of an Older Generation Amid the Tumult of the 60’s<\/a> [dke.org]<\/div>\n

Many athletes were in DKE, and it was famous for its parties, rowdiness and hazing. Former members say that the new pledges were paddled, battered and then shown a large iron brand glowing red hot in the fireplace. They were told to turn around to be branded, and then a much smaller brand (made of a wire hanger) was substituted to burn a triangle in the small of their backs, as the large brand was dipped into water to make a heart-stopping sizzle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

it’s an old story, really, it even got press coverage in the 2000 election, but i figured i should chime in as well, inspired by ‘Doonesbury’ Artist Trudeau Skewers Bush<\/a> [ap, via abcnews].<\/p>\n

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Liberties; President Frat Boy?<\/a> [dke.org \/ new york times]<\/div>\n

”The charge that has caused the most controversy on the Yale campus,” Mr. Weisman wrote, ”is that Delta Kappa Epsilon applied a ‘hot branding iron’ to the small of the back of its 40 new members in ceremonies two weeks ago. A photograph showing a scab in the shape of the Greek letter delta, approximately a half inch wide, appeared with the article. A former president of Delta said that the branding is done with a hot coat hanger. But the former president, George Bush, a Yale senior, said that the resulting wound is ‘only a cigarette burn.’ ” The fraternities were fined by the Yale Interfraternity Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

it seems that president bush hasn’t learned much about doing bad things and getting sanctioned when caught, and it’s been a lesson he’s had available since the late 1960’s, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

if it’s good enough for frat boys at yale, then it’s good enough for anyone, eh? should i really call this torture? maybe not. Ally of an Older Generation Amid the Tumult of the 60’s [dke.org] Many athletes were in DKE, and it was famous for its parties, rowdiness and hazing. Former members say that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}