<p>I just wanted to reply to PAC’s question on page one about locks on doors. I don’t know about Groton, but at Exeter each room has a lock that only the roommates have the key for. They also have a zero tolerance policy to hazing. I don’t know if that means kids will be expelled but they have dorm meetings about it and all the kids are aware that it is not acceptable behavior.</p>
<p>The one thing that is only vaguely related to hazing that surprised my daughter (and me) was the upper classmen’s reluctance to befriend a “Prep.” She really hated that during her first term as she wasn’t used to it, and wasn’t expecting it. She wanted to be able to be friends with kids of all grade levels and was not experiencing that due to the attitudes towards preps. It seems to have settled down a bit now and I know she has friends who are older but that is something I thought incoming preps should be aware of.</p>