This one involved teammates on a flag football team.
However, no hazing charges have been suggested: Moderator
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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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Sigma Chi case moves in Lincoln
LINCOLN, Neb. — Eight members of the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have pleaded not guilty to hazing and alcohol charges.
Former Sigma Chi pledges accused the members of physical and mental abuse.
Court affidavits detailed claims that members threw books and full beer cans at pledges and used racially charged words to describe them.
The attorney for one of the fraternity members who was charged said his client should be presumed innocent.
“We’re looking forward to receiving the reports on this case and get moving on it,” said attorney John Berry.
Court proceedings have been scheduled for later this summer for all eight defendants. The University has suspended the frat
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University of Central Arkansas Update
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity pledges refused to press charges. Case dismissed.
Fraternity charged with hazing, following death of Griffin
Published: Sunday, May 24, 2009 3:15 PM CDT
A University of Delaware fraternity is now dealing with a criminal charge in the death of a student.
The Delta Lambda chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu has been charged with midemeanor hazing by the Delaware Attorney General’s office, the Associated Press reported.
Newark Police have charged University of Delaware students, all members or pledges of Sigma Alpha Mu, had already been charged as individuals by Newark police with alcohol and drug offenses stemming from the investigation of the death of Brett Griffin. However, police emphasized the individuals have no links to the death of Griffin.
Griffin, died at a party in November. The fraternity is already being sued by Griffin’s family.
Judge’s Decision Below on Priors
05/29/09 06:50 AM
Judge in Wilson hazing case refuses to revisit ruling
WILSON—The judge presiding over the case of two Wilson High School baseball coaches charged in an alleged hazing incident refused Thursday a request to revisit his previous ruling that barred evidence of the coaches’ actions or inactions previous to the alleged crime.
In a written ruling issued Thursday, Town Justice George R. Berger denied a motion from Assistant District Attorney Robert A. Zucco asking the judge to reconsider his April 23 ruling preventing the introduction of the evidence—unless the defense raises the subject first. The judge said introducing this information would be “prejudicial.â€
Thomas J. Baia and William M. Atlas face misdemeanor child endangerment charges. They are accused of failing to act during a team bus ride April 17, 2008, when varsity players were allegedly harassing junior varsity players.
A jury trial is scheduled to begin July 6. The trial for the three former varsity players is scheduled to get under way June 20.