Author: 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. 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
Edy Pratt’s champion cheerleading squad at Towson booted following hazing allegations. http://www.thetowerlight.com/2013/08/cheer-team-suspended/
Scroll down for 7 videos featuring Hank Nuwer on miscellaneous hazing topics. http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/video/drinking-and-hazing
Another light penalty by the courts given a drummer pleading no contest to pushing Robert Champion during fatal FAMU band hazing on bus. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-famu-hazing-female-plea-20130802,0,5813253.story
Here is the link. This is a pretty important story.
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Jermaine Robertson came to Florida A&M University as a freshman in 1992 with a burning desire to be a member of the famed Marching 100.
He had learned to play the alto saxophone growing up in Jacksonville. Now he wanted to march with the best band in the land.
It didn’t matter to him that he would be required to subject himself to hazing rituals in order to be a part of the “100.” If that was the cost of membership, so be it.
“I was well aware that hazing was going to be part of the band, and I was OK with that. As dangerous as that sounds, that was my attitude,” Robertson said. “A lot of students have that attitude.”