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
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Band Hazing one man fought back
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Desdunes was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity who was found deceased on a couch in the library of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity during the morning hours of February 25, 2011.
Representatives of fraternity did not appear in court and a corporate summons will be issued.
Excerpt from KOAT7 report
Curtis Peralta, 18, was arraigned on Tuesday morning. Peralta and two other Valencia High football players are accused of holding a teammate down and committing violent sexual acts against him. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.Peralta will not be arrested. The judge decided that Peralta will have to turn himself in to the Valencia County Detention Center within the next two weeks. He will be booked and released afterward.