Dear Avirah,
For all you and I know, all the yeraim and shelaimem have been getting these procedures for decades. They just have the decency not to talk about it. Now you can go make a whole ruckus about it, and the very people who you are holding up as examples will join your cause, because they do not see themselves as perfect role models. (They will think that their role models must have told you that.) and it will be one more detail of the yeshiva world that gets changed by your ignorance.