Word: zeke
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...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...
...When Zeke first raised the issue to the headmaster, even though he took the allegations seriously, it did strike a political chord, says Karen Schwartzman, who handles public relations for the Groton School. It seemed like a political endeavor and the headmaster had to overcome that. She points to the schools offers to allow Hawkins to finish from home and the fact that several students were indeed reprimanded for their excessive hazing. Many students at school at the time of the events feel that Hawkins rage was misdirected, and were put off by the way he handled his crisis...
Most of the school thinks that some of the stuff Zeke talked about probably happened but are mad about the way it was handled, says Durham. He was not fixing anything. He was out to get back at the school. The whole thing turned into a crusade against sexual molestation, which has its place, but it was weird in the context...
Hardoon is happy to point out three other students other than Hawkins spoke out as having been made uncomfortable through hazing, but Schwartzman counters that no one used the word rape besides Zeke and his lawyer, and that the students implicated were punished...
...Zeke W. Reich...