Welcome to the unofficial hazing deaths clearinghouse of Hank Nuwer. My non-hazing stories are archived at my author’s website: Real Alaska Daily.
The Hazing Deaths Unofficial Clearinghouse page tracks all hazing deaths and investigates suspected deaths to work toward solutions-based answers to eradicate behaviors associated with tragedies. This site tracks ongoing legislation and scholarly insights into hazing prevention that is intended to have a positive impact on a longstanding social problem in education.
Link to 2000-2024 hazing deaths database
Breaking news on August, 22, 2024. The wife of Arkansas Vincent Parks blasts the state’s academy for “covering up” circumstances in her husband’s death in 2022. Although the causes are called non-criminal, she says this was a needless death due to a hazing practice called a “smoke session.” See more here at “Occupational Hazing Deaths.”
Scholars, Students, reporters: visit the Buffalo State University Hazing Research Collection: https://library.buffalostate.edu/archives/nuwer
Books on hazing: “Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, “Wrongs of Passage,” “The Hazing Reader,” “High School Hazing,” and “Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing.”
Short Theater Plays on hazing: The Broken Pledge (fraternity hazing) and Death of a Rookie (athlete hazing).
The State University of New York awarded me an honorary Doctor of Human Letters. I am a member of IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors), SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists), and Phi Kappa Phi & Alpha Lambda Delta National Academic Honor Societies. My master’s degree is from New Mexico Highlands University. I was awarded a formal doctoral equivalency from Ball State University in 1988 to enable me to teach graduate school classes. I have additional coursework from Hamline University (creative writing), the University of Bridgeport Shakespeare Institute and Nevada-Reno (specialties, New (literary) journalism, Western American Literature, 19th and 20th Century Literature.
Spouse: Malgorzata Wroblewska-Nuwer (Gosia Nuwer).
Residences: Fairbanks, Ak; Randolph County, Ind; Warsaw, Poland
Title: Prof. emeritus, Franklin College; member, Ball State University Hall of Fame, Journalism; Honorary doctorate from SUNY Buffalo State; Team member, Buffalo State University Athletic Hall of Fame; Alaska Children’s Trust 2024 Champion
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