Edited sentence: First-year students, who are usually about 13 years old, are forced to do push-ups by older students in the style of military camps.Naturally, it is argued, this is the very spirit of Raffles Institution, which has the de facto role of producing  the future crop of elite in an authoritarian society.The camp itself has been renounced by former students on account of its underlying theme of conformity and its militarism.The psychological effect of this is to ensure homogeneity and obsequiousness among students, but this instead has the effect of marginalising the more creative and independent students.They are also sometimes blindfolded and pelted with various substances such as chilli sauce or flour as part of a humiliating ritual known as the Walk of Initiation.This coming-of-age ritual, like the Orientation Camp, again serves to promote the norms of homogeneity, physical fitness and obedience that are important elements of the militaristic and authoritarian Singaporean society