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Byline: T. Trent Gegax
Every time he heard the music, Zeke Hawkins knew they were coming to get him. A 16-year-old first-year student at Groton, the exclusive New England prep school, Hawkins was in a friend's dorm room one night in 1997 when he first heard a boombox playing a song from the movie "Saturday Night Fever." A moment later, a group of upperclassmen pinned him down. Hawkins was startled, but not terribly scared. He figured he was in for a night of hazing. Maybe the older boys would shove his head into a toilet or force him to drink water until he threw up. Hawkins had heard about hazing at...
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