 Most of the freshmen's rituals are performed collectively in order to avoid open ground for abusers.However, the older students sometimes take the Praxe too far, when the initiation rituals, jokes and traditions are degraded into humiliation and violence, a violation of the code and values of the praxe.The president of the "Associação Académica de Coimbra" and the Dux Veteranorum of Coimbra (ruling body of the Praxe in Coimbra) has described such incidents as a stain in its principles, and supports legal action being taken against perpetrators.