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...expression has justified the notoriously cruel amusements of teenage males for centuries, but its alleged acceptance at the Groton School has had messy consequences for the elite academy. With a former student filing a negligence suit against the school, its policies on student behaviorand their implicationshave come under close scrutiny...
...suit states that schoolmates repeatedly molested Cannon Zeke Hawkins, now a junior at Brown, during his sophomore year. Hawkins claims that on the night of the most serious incident, a group of students, led by a student in his year, came into his room and pinned him to the floor. According to Hawkins, they then tore off his shirt and pants, grabbed at his testicles and penis, inserted his fingers into his rectum through his boxers and licked his face. Hawkins spoke out about these assaults a few months before he was scheduled to graduate, and in response, Groton launched...
Then two years later, in late August, on the day before Hawkins turned 21, the last day he could legally do so, he filed a suit against Groton, blaming the school for not taking his story seriously...
...Groton School has made much of the complexity of the issues that brought Hawkins suit to surface. In a letter sent out to members of the Groton community addressing the hostile media onslaught that followed, Headmaster William M. Polk wrote, It is important to note that the allegations were first reported by Mr. Hawkins in the context of his trying to bargain with me to stop disciplinary action from being taken against other students in an unrelated disciplinary proceeding...
Students say that Hawkins suit will have no effect on the schools current hazing policy, as Groton has already taken steps to halt the practice...