to was the deep camp and they were even at that time considered somewhat beyond the pale. and when i was a sophomore, one of my first gigs for the college newspaper was part of an expose of their initiation rights in which they branded their initiates with a red hot iron on their buttocks. when this story broke the media got real involved and new york times sent a stringer and the president of deek at the time was george w. bush. is that right is this. he was called upon to defend the practice and so he told the times that it didn t amount to much, it was like a cigarette burn. that always amused me that the first interview he gave to a national publication in his life