Link to the Daily Orange story here By Catherine Leffert, Daniel Strauss
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. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com
From moderator Hank Nuwer
- Your fraternity encourages or coerces pledges into drinking. A bottle exchange is not a gift. It’s a weapon that has killed over and over.
- Your chapter has members who physically haze in lineups or administer “wood” with impunity.
- Your high school team has players who think it their right to touch and taunt rookies.
- Your sorority shares or trades pledges with a fraternity.
- Your chapter thinks it is a hoot to drop pledges far from home with no identification.
- Your chapter makes pledges go on some kind of forced march.
- Your chapter makes pledges eat unpleasant substances that can make someone gag and choke.
8) You make pledges swim or wade in deep waters.
Five young men have accepted a plea deal and will serve jail time for the hazing death of a Florida State University student from South Florida.
The men originally faced up to five years in prison for a felony hazing charge before agreeing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor hazing charge.
Four of the men — Kyle Bauer, Brett Birmingham, Christopher Hamlin and John Ray — will serve 60-day jail sentences and a fifth, Conner Ravelo, will serve 30 days after cooperating with the investigation, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
The men were in the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, where 20-year-old Andrew Coffey died of alcohol poisoning in November.
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Read before pledging
Before joining a fraternity, read this https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/fraternity-sorority-overview/index.html
Here is the link to that sad story at the University of Minnesota