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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 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 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

Hazing in France

Long ago I investigated hazing in Paris’s elite art schools. I see it is still a horrid practice nowhere near going away.

https://www.france24.com/en/20180831-french-universities-brace-new-wave-crackdown-hazing-rituals-la-rentree

University hazing rituals – once indelibly associated with Oxbridge drinking societies and US fraternity houses – are no longer exclusively an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, with French universities increasingly having to crack down on the practice.

For first-year university students, “la rentrée” – the start of the new academic year in France – comes with the promise of a “welcome week”, evenings of organised activities and maybe a weekend trip, all with the putative aim of helping new students integrate into the life of the institution.

But a number of French universities have made headlines in recent years for the dangerous or humiliating initiation ceremonies taking place during these integration periods, despite laws designed to ban the practice.

Alcohol ban is a Greek plan

Dan Cotton latest sports scribe to write in praise of hazing

Another reporter tries to present sports hazing in a positive light–Dan Cotton with the Tenn. Titans. He also can’t spell. “Rookie hazing is a rite of passage in the National Football League. The Tennessee Titans took this tradition to a whole knew level.” https://247sports.com/nfl/tennessee-titans/Article/Titans-give-rookies-haircuts-as-part-of-rookie-hazing-120764461/

Read on:

“If you’re not following Pro Bowl left tackle Taylor Lewan on Instagram, you’re simply missing out. Lewan had a couple of Instagram stories from the rookie hazing event that are priceless. Even the vets were not sparred. Lewan caught of video of wide receiver Michael Campanaro being a victim of the haircut crew.

Have to give the rookies credit. They seemed to take the hazing in stride.”

$25 million lawsuit launched

Ben Blum debunks Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment