Sulking people have been ducking retreat for a long time. Why does tha paper choose to publicize it?
They could find a recruit with lipstick that did something good. This is a liberal paper looking to doralize
Forget it
You're right that people have been ducking retreat forever, so who knows? — but just look at the utterly disproportionate comments here, if the intent was to provoke reaction it looks like it's succeeding.