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Stop calling it hazing.
A pool cue? A ruptured colon? Teammate-on-teammate violence to the point of hospitalization?
That’s not hazing.
That’s rape.
Nineteen days ago, a teenage boy was raped and assaulted during an Ooltewah High basketball trip, and Chattanooga is roiling, with some calling for the resignation of coaches, administrators, even Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Rick Smith.