WTHR-TV in Indiana is covering the so-called bullying (school’s term) of basketball team members on a school bus. Watch tonite or go to station web site tonite. Moderator
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
While no Good Samaritan law is perfect, the father of an alcohol-related hazing victim argues convincingly that it is better to have such a law in place than to lose a son or daughter because someone feared calling 911 for fear of getting a criminal record. Kudos to Mr. George Starks of Salt Lake City and his son and daughter for their hard work in getting Utah legislators to put this protective law on the books. Link to story.
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ABC story on sororities
Hi all: here is an ABC-TV web story on sorority hazing. My position continues to be that we need actual surveys (or at least a noticeable spike in sorority hazing news stories) before we can get an
idea on whether hazing practices truly are escalating or becoming more violent. The numbers in high school athletic hazing, for example, can be counted to make a case for such a spike since the late 1990s. I’ll keep an eye out for sorority hazing in the news, but though the violent or bizarre cases grab headlines,,,I’m not sure this amounts to a nationwide trend. I’d want more evidence before making such a statement unilaterally. Thanks.
Here is the link to NCAA speaker visit to Haverford that hed to disagreement over parameters of hazing, according to this article writer. Dr. Brian Crow is an expert on hazing and the law, particularly with regard to athletic interpretations.