Plebes are in good hands for Re-Org Week

aspen
Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:15:20 +0000

Ann,

Glad to hear you had a great A-Day and that the plebes still have their sense of humor . They will need that sense of humor as their time at USMA progresses.

Certainly, the measure of hazing intensity differs greatly depending on whether you are on the giving or receiving end. Our yuk son says that virtually all the activity classified as “hazing” nowadays is verbal rather than physical.

Your comment that the cows get into the hazing more than the yuks might be do to the fact that each yuk was assigned a plebe(or two) last week to mentor during the plebe’s first year. Our son said his assigned plebe was pretty “squared-away” already and was looking forward to getting to know him better.

For point of reference, every plebe class’s Beast is “too easy” when viewed by the current upperclass cadets. If you want the “boy do you have it easy” chatter to reach an even higher pitch, just as an alumni how life at USMA has changed since they were a cadet.