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Another hazing death tied to Tau Gamma Phi, second of year

Excerpt: from the Philippine Star

 

MANILA, Philippines – Police investigators have identified four suspects in the death of a former student of Southern Luzon State University (SLSU) after hazing rites in Tagkawayan, Quezon last month.

According to an ABS-CBN news report, the victim, Ariel Enopre, 24, was able to tell his parents that he underwent hazing in Barangay Mapulot in Tagkawayan last Oct. 17.

Senior Inspector Reynaldo Reyes, chief of Tagkawayan Police, withheld the names of the four suspects pending the filing of charges against them.

The alleged hazing rites, supposedly conducted by the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity, were held on Oct. 17 but the victim kept it secret from his parents.

His parents later learned about the hazing.

Police said at least 11 people were involved in the fatal initiation rites.

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Enopre, a former Information Technology student in SLSU, stopped studying this semester.

 

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 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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