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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
Instead of covering up as several school districts have done in recent years, this school district is disclosing facts to its community.
Read the story at this link–Moderator
Excerpt: Multiple people will be charged in the case of a Florida marching band drum major who was killed in Orlando in a brutal hazing ritual in November 2011, authorities said on Tuesday.
All: This is at Arsenal Tech in Indianapolis. Moderator
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“Technically, the young man should not carry a (stun gun) onto school property,” she said. “No parent should ever think it’s OK to give their child a weapon to take to school.”
But, she said, “the school has an obligation to keep these kids safe, especially when the potential for harm is pointed out to them. . . . If this child was going to school and felt that he had to carry a weapon with him to be safe, then no, I don’t think the school was handling it well.”
She said she doesn’t think Young should be expelled because that would create more problems in his life. He should be allowed to go back to school and finish his education because he was a good student and wanted to learn.
She said the incident doesn’t warrant criminal charges, either.
“I think he actually demonstrated pretty good judgment in holding (the stun gun) up in the air and not having it anywhere close to anybody,” she said.
Hank Nuwer, the bullying expert, agreed that the situation is complicated.
“You see the parent’s point of view: ‘What am I going to do? Hire a bodyguard?’ ” he said.
But he said parents who arm their children are “asking for an eventuality.”
“As much as I feel sympathy for (Young), . . . you have to leave it in the hands of law enforcement,” Nuwer said.
He said he thinks the school should expel Young.
“It breaks your heart,” Nuwer said, “but I don’t see that they have a choice.”
The students who threatened Young might not face any punishment.
Young and other witnesses were not able to identify the students who surrounded him, and the school’s investigation hasn’t yielded any leads, Yarrell said.
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Chico State hazing summary
Here is the link. Many schools now are publishing statistics from hazing anually. http://theorion.com/sports/article_bbb843d8-8e85-11e1-9ab7-001a4bcf6878.html