{"id":5130,"date":"2007-11-12T04:24:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2007-11-12T04:24:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:24:01","slug":"doonesbury-remembered-the-proper-days-of-frat-hazing-at-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/doonesbury-remembered-the-proper-days-of-frat-hazing-at-yale\/","title":{"rendered":"Doonesbury Remembered the &#8220;Proper Days&#8221; of Frat Hazing at Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_George_W._Bush\" class=\"external external_icon\">Current President<\/a> (yes, that one) once defended a fraternity&#8217;s practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t. Mind you, I&#8217;m not at all surprised by the idea of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Trudeau&#8217;s cartoon &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doonesbury\" class=\"external external_icon\">Doonesbury<\/a>&#8221; featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godeke.org\/News\/PhiAlumnus_GeorgeWBush9.1.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">explaining the President&#8217;s position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that exposed DKE&#8217;s rush activities, which at the time included brandings and alleged beatings<\/a>. Soon after these stories were published, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godeke.org\/News\/PhiAlumnus_GeorgeWBush9.2.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">University&#8217;s Inter-Fraternity Council fined the fraternity for performing &#8220;physically and mentally degrading acts,&#8221; and the Times published an article in which Bush defended the brandings, comparing them to cigarette burns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time, it caused quite a stir on campus, even generating some national attention,&#8221; Trudeau said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godeke.org\/News\/PhiAlumnus_GeorgeWBush9.2.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\">yale daily news at the fraternity in question&#8217;s site<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the Current President (yes, that one) once defended a fraternity&#8217;s practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger? I didn&#8217;t. Mind you, I&#8217;m not at all surprised by the idea of it. Trudeau&#8217;s cartoon &#8220;Doonesbury&#8221; featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President&#8217;s position against current anti-torture legislation by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,14],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-usa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}