Still, at Yale as on other campuses around the country, an era was ending and fun-loving preppies were falling out of step. In the fall of 1967, when huge numbers of college students were marching on Washington to protest the Vietnam War, Bush was quoted in the New York Times defending the branding of fraternity pledges with a hot coat hanger, saying the resulting wounds resembled "only a cigarette burn."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072799.htmYou see? Fraternity pranks are OK, because they're just like cigarette burns! I'm sure this gives you a great insight into the Bush household, where cigarette burns were just part of life's rich pageant.
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