Education: Floggers

Into a University of Oklahoma fraternity house, one midnight three weeks ago, strode six burly students in black robes with black hoods bearing the letters D.D.M.C. They aroused an 18-year-old sophomore. "Come with us, Bill Stephens," intoned a leader darkly. Student Stephens stumbled from his bed. Outside it was 19° Fahrenheit. In his pajamas he was escorted to a field three miles from the University town of Norman. There the black-robes lashed Student Stephens ten times across the back with a three-quarter-inch rope. Then they gave him an overcoat, a pair of boots,...

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