Bush Approved Torture at Yale

In today's Doonesbury there are references to Bush's condoning a hazing ritual at Yale in which pledges were burned with a clotheshanger.

This episode was brought up in a New York Times article at the time (DailyKos has the entire text here.)

Here's the money quote:

The charge that has caused the most controversy on the Yale campus is that Delta Kappa Epsilon applied on "hot branding iron" to the small of the back of its 40 new members in the shape of the Greek letter Delta, approximately a half inch wide, appeared with the article.

A former president of Delta that [sic] the branding is done with a hot coathanger. But the former president, George Bush, a Yale senior, said that the resulting wound is "only a cigarette burn."