Tracking hazing deaths

Rider student has close call at fraternity party. Not classified hazing at this time. May be Phi Kappa Tau party related only

Post author By Hank Nuwer
Post date March 29, 2007
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Excerpt from story — “An 18-year-old Rider University freshman from Long Beach, Calif., remains in critical condition at Helene Fuld Hospital in Trenton following a night of excessive drinking at the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house on campus.Sources identified the student as Gary Devercelly, 18.”

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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