They didn't get their decoration: instead, Bush was arrested, though the charges against his inebriated joke were later dropped.

"We didn't hang out with the guys who studied real hard," Walker confesses.

Bush and his friends once again found themselves the object of the local police force's ire after a Yale football victory over Princeton. After pulling down the goalpost on the field, Bush and his friends were told they had 15 minutes to get out of town.

Still, fraternity antics at Yale were tame compared to fraternity antics at larger schools.

"Deke was the jock house all right, but this was no Mississippi State," says Deke member J.P. Goldsmith, who was a year behind Bush at Yale. "Every body could read and write, everybody could wear a neck-tie and everybody went to class."

Though Bush was clearly at home in the social scene of Yale men, he nonetheless encountered difficulty dealing with members of the opposite sex.

In his junior year, George W. Bush told his friends he had become engaged to a woman studying at Rice. They say, they could not have been more surprised.