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Anti-Hazing Group formed

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Group formed to stop hazing

The “Solidarity Against Hazing and Violence in Campus” (SAHVIC), a multi-sectoral group opposed to hazing and other forms of campus violence was organized last Oct. 5, at the Manila Hotel to plan concrete steps to prevent deaths and injuries due to hazing.

Former Senator Joey Lina, who was the principal author and sponsor of R.A. 8049 otherwise known as the Anti-Hazing Law, served as the convenor of the meeting, together with Cecille Guidote-Alvarez, executive director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and well-respected columnist Belinda Cunanan. The multi-sectoral group elected Lina as chairman of SAHVIC.

Sectors represented during the meeting were students, academe, school administration, public safety training institutions, media, and national as well as local governments.

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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