Citadel the latest public school to spurn the First Amendment

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Yes. Mental abuse is hazing. Physical abuse is hazing.

 

OK, I have work to do. You can and a few others can sit by the screen for the rest of the day waiting for me to come back online.

 

The funniest thing is he thinks this a mic-drop moment.

 

If that work involves influencing children, Devil, for the love of God please stay here today. Everyone wins.

 

But, it is in Devil's mind/opinion, and he's for it.

So, by his own definition, he's pro-hazing.

 

Let's amend this for Devil's sake.

If you're willing to put your life on the line, in order to serve our nation, then you out to expect to be hazed. It's obviously necessary to toughen you up; to separate the strong from the weak.

It's the same sort of training you would expect a referee to undergo.

 

What the fuck is wrong with you? Can you even read? Do you have the barest smidgen of a brain? Is there anything in my post that a person without some cognitive impairment would take as my suggesting that The Citadel (or VMI) should or should not get rid of the knob system/rat line?

The Citadel defines hazing as follows: "A wrongful striking, an unauthorized laying hand upon, threatening with violence, or offering to do bodily harm by any student to another student, or any other unauthorized treatment by one student toward another student of a tyrannical, abusive, shameful, insulting, or humiliating nature; or otherwise requiring any student to perform any personal service for another student except as specifically provided for in Cadet Regulations."

VMI's policy re: hazing reads: "'Hazing' means to recklessly or intentionally endanger the health or safety of a cadet or cadets or to inflict bodily injury on a cadet or cadets in connection with or for the purpose of initiation, admission into or affiliation with or as a condition for continued membership in a club, organization, association, or student body regardless of whether the cadet or cadets so endangered or injured participated voluntarily in the relevant activity."

The knob system/rat line is not hazing.

 

Well, it's not like Devil thinks it should stop there. If a little mental or physical abuse is what to takes to get these guys mentally ready for war, then that's what it takes.

 

The Citadel and VMI (and a few others) are so-called senior military colleges, but even though all of their students are in ROTC only about half take a commission (they're not required to) upon graduation.

 

They know what they're getting into when they go there!