Pledges branded with hot coat hangers while George W. Bush was fraternity President
It keeps getting better and better. It turns out that Delta Kappa Epsilon applied hot branding irons made out of coat hangers to the backs of pledges when George W. Bush was President of the Fraternity at Yale. The branding was done to 40 pledges and the hazing scandal was reported in the campus newspaper. The story was investigated and the fraternity was fined for the branding by the Yale Interfraternity Council. In a school newspaper interview with George W. Bush explained away the incident, saying "There's no scarring mark physically or mentally." Members of the fraternity that were branded when George W. was President still bear the mark today.
This story was investigated by the STAR newspaper when Bush was governor of Texas and he defended the illegel torture of the young fraternity pledges in the late 60's as a harmless prank. Looks as if George W. would be right at home in the prison system in Iraq!