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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
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http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Four+more+Alberta+students+suspended+over+hazing/1964584/story.html
Excerpt from Edmonton Journal
Four more Alberta students suspended over hazing
Edmonton JournalSeptember 4, 2009
EDMONTON — Four more students at an Alberta high school were suspended Friday, bringing the number of teens facing expulsion over an alleged hazing incident last weekend to 12.
The students will remain suspended pending an expulsion hearing, said Battle River School Division spokeswoman Diane Hutchinson.
She did not say whether the latest students confessed to officials at Central High Sedgewick Public School, or were identified by their peers.
Sedgewick is about 200 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.
The division has also passed along any information they have gathered to the RCMP, who continue to investigate.
Excerpt: WILLINGBORO – The Board of Education has settled a lawsuit filed by a former Willingboro High School football player, who alleged he was physically and sexually abused by teammates during a hazing incident at a summer sports camp in 2006.
The board agreed to pay a “substantial amount” to settle the case with the student and his mother, who were plaintiffs in the 2007 complaint. The terms of the settlement called for the exact amount to be kept confidential.
The boy had sought unspecified damages; the court documents state he had accrued about $3 million in medical bills and other costs.
No taxpayer money was used to pay the settlement, according to the teenager’s attorney, John Borbi of Evesham.
Link: http://cbs4denver.com/local/zeta.phi.beta.2.1148417.html
Excerpt: Pledges told investigators they were told to do hours of strenuous exercise including running and pushups to the point that one woman has muscle spasms “and began to shake really badly.”
Two pledges said they threw up after eating raw onions. They were told they couldn’t be a Zeta until they “ate Zeta fruit, which is onions and tuna.”
“They had to exercise hard and they had to eat some gross food, but there was also a culture related to it that was sort of an escalating you don’t know what you’re going to be asked to do,” said Anne Hughes, CSU Dean of Students.