SAE removes Iowa chapter for hazing and alcohol. University concurs. http://www.kcrg.com/home/top-9/UI-Frat-Removed-From-Campus-After-Alleged-Hazing-171087571.html
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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
Warning: this Pi Kappa Alpha practice is not only dangerous but gross. Luckily, Tennessee student survived. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/sep/24/ut-fraternity-suspended-over-graphic-alcohol/
Dear Congresswoman Wilson: Hazing is one behavior problem in a school. Plagiarism or the using of another person’s creative or research efforts without sourcing or attribution is another.
I support fully your attempts to get a federal law passed.
I do have to ask you why your poster with my hazing death list that I began so painstakingly in 1978 for Human Behavior magazine and updated just this month to 163 deaths was so cavalierly used by you without credit?
Please cease and desist in using information from my site without credit.
I put it up free of charge at great labor to myself for the public good.
I admire and acknowledge the work against hazing you are doing for the public good.
Now that I have given you credit, please grant my research equal measure of respect. — Respectfully, but insistently noting a “public cease and desist” request. Hank Nuwer, Moderator.
Excerpt: She and other grieving relatives of hazing victims stood with Wilson behind a banner that depicted rows of tombstones and the words: “Hazing kills – 163 deaths to date. If you want to haze, lose your financial aid – not for days, but for LIFE!”
As a SUNY alumnus, I decry the letter to the New York Times written by head SUNY trustee H. Carl McCall to the New York Times. Dear H. Carl McCall, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kvetching. In other words, say what positive steps have been taken but explain why hazing went on so long at SUNY Binghamton. How do you explain the near death in women’s volleyball at SUNY Geneseo? The deaths over time at Plattsburgh and Geneseo? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/opinion/field-reports-the-hazing-at-binghamton-u.html
Saginaw Valley State’s President Eric Gilbertson hasn’t clue on definition of hazing; lets players return after alleged sexual hazing http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/20295825/saginaw-valley-prez-calls-sexual-assault-claim-a-case-of-bullying/rss