Cornell U’s Tau Epsilon Phi faces hearing on hazing allegations. http://www.cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2012/11/08/three-fraternities-temporarily-suspended-after-hazing-high-risk-drin
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
NOT NICE DEPT. This possible initiation mocking homeless people by Harvard club students gets me irritated and yes, upset. Hopefully, the initiates and club members will realize they are abusing their privileged positions. If not an initiation, the videotaping still was in bad taste and out of line. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/11/6/sabliere-initiation-draws-criticism/
Sad news. David Bogenberger, 19, dies. Pi Kappa Alpha. Northern Illinois University. Alcohol likely. Was hazing a factor? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-niu-drinking-death-20121103,0,2898617.story
If so, this may be a hazing death. Moderator
Excerpt from the Lafayette student newspaper
President Daniel H. Weiss confirmed Wednesday that freshman Everett Glenn was taking part in an underground recruiting event the morning of his death on All College Day.
“There’s clear circumstantial evidence that Everett was participating in a recruiting event for an organization that had lost its charter a year ago,” Weiss said. “That’s KDR.”
The National Fraternity of Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) revoked the charter of its Lafayette chapter in June 2011.
Former KDR affiliates maintain that no underground chapter exists here on campus.
“All there is on this campus are 17 alumni members,” said one KDR alumnus who wished to remain anonymous. Another source close to the KDRs was adamant that they are no more than a group of friends.
“The administration has strong evidence for what they’re asserting,” Weiss said. “Very strong evidence.” He declined to elaborate on what that evidence was, but confirmed that it included testimony from people who had seen Glenn on All College Day.
Until now, the school has said little about the circumstances surrounding Glenn’s death, which was attributed to “acute ethanol intoxication” in the State of the College email sent by Weiss and Board of Trustees Chair Ed Ahart ‘69 in August.
Weiss, while admitting that he is unsure whether KDR is underground or not, said, “Everett was awakened at 4 o’clock in the morning as part of a recruitment event by a group of people who were affiliated with the former KDR, and they went to a party.”
Some students disagree with Weiss’s assessment.
“Everett chose to get up early—very early—and start drinking,” a junior and self-identified friend of KDR alumni said. “To say that he was woken up is false.”
Weiss is not the only one pointing to the former fraternity. Last week, at the Presidential Search Meeting in Boston, Ahart told alumni that Glenn had been drinking with an unrecognized student group. There had been “a lot of forced drinking,” he said.
Weiss clarified that KDR was not responsible for Glenn’s death, but did supply the freshman with alcohol that morning. Glenn had reportedly been drinking with a number of groups that day.
Weiss said he did not discuss KDR’s involvement earlier in the investigation because the group is unsanctioned and unrecognized.
And a lesson for all involved in hazing. If you’re there when a hazing goes real wrong, your life goes REAL wrong. Bystander who did nothing to stop Robert Champion’s beating death now wants to be set free of felony charge. A lesson for bystanders everywhere. Assuming bystander/bandstander Ryan Dean’s claim is true. Uhhuh. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-famu-hazing-champion-ryan-dean-20121025,0,7391566.story