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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

Moderator — The WISH-TV investigative story on a 1998 hazing case at Carmel High School shows that the school was not required to release its settlement payment to a swimmer who alleged that three other swimmers harassed, bullied and sexually assaulted him when he was a first-year swimmer. Clearly, taxpayers in Carmel have a right to that PAYMENT information PAID WITH CARMEL TAX DOLLARS — as a similar hazing case at Poway High School demonstrated was right and necesary to reveal so far as the amount was concerned. I hope Indianapolis stations or the Indianapolis Star newspaper can get those records.

The video follows from WISH-TV

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/hamilton_county/past-carmel-suit-details-alleged-abuse

Here is a similar case in Michigan and background on that Poway High School case which was investigated by the San Diego Tribune. The TribuneÂ filed a FOIA request and obtained the amount.

Hank Nuwer: Hazing Deaths Clearinghouse, Unofficial

Dr. Walter Kimbrough speaks at Lehigh

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Excerpt:

As part of Lehigh’s celebration of Black History Month, Kimbrough delivered a speech titled “Dilemma: The History of Fraternalism in America.”

Kimbrough is the president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., as well as an active member of the Association of Fraternity Advisors.

He addressed past and recent developments in fraternal culture in the United States.

“Fraternities were created to fill an emotional and social vacancy on college campuses,” Kimbrough said.

The original focus of fraternal organizations was on five main concepts.

“The founders of all the organizations that existed early on created ‘the blueprint,'” Kimbrough said.

He described the blueprint as the “five basic ritualistic precepts of Greek life,” character, scholarship, fellowship, service and religion.

He then addressed the relatively recent digression of “the blueprint,” or what he calls “the blueprint two.”

“After 1930, we created the blueprint two; we have a lot of good things going on, but we have this curse to deal with as well, and that curse is hazing,” Kimbrough said.

Due to hazing he said, a new version of the original blueprint has developed, he said.

“Furthermore, hazing is one of the main reasons the values of fraternities are incongruent with their actions,” Kimbrough said.

“Our rhetoric still does not match our reality. We say one thing and do something else,” he continued.

Carmel parents asking why the delay in charges?

High School Sports Hazing

Carmel (INDIANA) hazing videos from WTHR and updates