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Alcohol-related death at Iona (non-hazing)

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Adam Lynch was found dead in his Loftus Hall dorm room in New Rochelle, N.Y., by his two roommates around 9:40 a.m. Wednesday.

His death recalls this 1999 hazing death:

Iona University (New York)
(Dec. 1999 death leads to charges in 2000; put in 1999 listings)
Sigma Tau Omega

Kevin Lawless died in December during pledging. Police charged brothers of the chapter
with numerous misdemeanor charges, including hazing, in April 2000. (They later were sentenced to perform community service).
He died with a blood alcohol content of .34 in combination with a heart defect, said the coroner. The chapter was operating without
school sanction because of a previous ban for misconduct.

By Hank Nuwer

Journalist Hank 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, the Alaska Press Club awarded him first place in the Best Columnist division and Best Humorist, second place.

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 Warsaw, Poland and Fairbanks, Alaska. Nuwer is a former columnist for the Greenville (Ohio)Early Bird and former managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.
Nuwer was named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists columnist of the year in 2021 for his “After Darke” column in the Early Bird. He also won third place for the column in 2022 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He and his wife Gosia, recently of Union City, Ind., have owned 20 acres in Alaska for many years. “The move is a sort-of coming home for us,” said Nuwer. As a journalist, he’s written about the Alaskan Iditarod sled-dog race and other Alaska topics. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com and in his weekly column "Far from Randolph" in the Winchester Star-Gazette of Randolph County, Indiana.

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