In the language of fraternities, they are called 'barbarians.' This derisive term is used to describe people who are not members of tightly-knit 'brotherhoods' that charge as an admission fee the steep price of being beaten on the posterior of the applicant's thighs, or sometimes buttocks, with a wooden paddle. The result is always, at least, heavy bruising and hematoma. Sometimes, the heavy beatings result in fractures. And every now and then, the price an initiate tragically pays for the dubious honor of being called a 'brother' is the ultimate one: his life.

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