Hank Nuwer, Author; Hazing Deaths Database 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
Good morning. Back with posts after Indiana power outage and beginning of courses at my college.
South Dakota, mulling over the merits of a state hazing bill, also has a high school case in front of administrators and law enforcement officials. Here is the story link
Aberdeen Central High School have been less than forthcoming with the public on this case.
Things just escalate so darn fast.
Thanks to the dad for speaking out. Hoping son can get assistance. Hoping the hazers have had remorse.
Did they try to get at the father (a coach in another sport) through abusing his son?
Here is the link to the AP story.
http://www.necn.com/01/22/11/Unindicted-Texas-student-Pledge-death-my/landing_nation.html?&blockID=3&apID=a8665cc3c3e64898b7939b59364209cb
Players involved in a hazing inident were suspended five games. Moorhead, Minnesota link
Dave Morinville now returned to duties and one hopes a bit more educated on the issue.
Here is the link to a story in the Montreal Gazette
The problem is that even the minor hazing in PRO hockey sends a message to high school and college athletes that hazing is all fun and games. But it is a start, and a start is a start is a start. On the other hand, this writer is editorializing that hazing, a crime, isn’t so bad if people cut down a bit. But then again, no one would say it is ok that someone shoplifts or only once in a while teases pets. I wish the writer would stick to facts instead of leading impressionable young readers to his own biases.