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ok......believe me, I understand the stance that putting people in stressful situations can and does teach them to work effectivly under pressure. And trust me, I was a beast cadre member, that atmosphere does still exist here, to a point. But, does it really make sense to take ten minutes to scream at a plebe because his gig line is slightly off, or is there a point at which the correction becomes counter productive. Making underclassmen perform to standard in everything they do (which is still allowed and encouraged) is stressful enough.....do we really think that screaming at them is going to do anything other than make them simply turn off and ignore the message at the core of the "hazing"? I know that for me yelling and screaming was easy to deal with, because you didnt have to actually do anything, it was when I was simply forced to be the standard that life was hard, and ensuring that plebes maintain the standard still occurs today, just in a more effective manner for both leaders and followers.
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