Tracking hazing deaths

Sigma Phi Epsilon arrests.

Post author By Hank Nuwer
Post date January 29, 2007
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Community college students among those arrested

31 pledges were found wearing sweat pants and white T-shirts with profanity and vulgarity written on them–temperature was below -2C.
The following men were charged with hazing:

Drew Johnson, 22, FSU student.

Eric Fernandez, 19, a Tallahassee Community College student.

Joshua Vincent, 19, FSU student.

Nicholas Finazzo, 18, TCC student.

By Hank Nuwer

Journalist Hank Nuwer tracks hazing deaths in fraternities and schools. Nuwer is the Alaska author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives; Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader. In April of 2024 and April 2025 , the Alaska Press Club awarded him first place in the Best Columnist division.

He has written articles or columns on hazing for the Sunday Times of India, Toronto Globe & Mail, Harper's Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. His current book is Hazing: Destroying Young Lives from Indiana University Press. He is married to Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer of Fairbanks, Alaska. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com

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