Freshman hazing assailed.
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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
Fraternity and sorority life: an examination of alcohol education programs on collegiate drinking patterns
A Page – 2017 – scholarworks.calstate.edu
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Date: 2017-06-07
Abstract:
The espoused characteristics of fraternal organizations support the mission and intent of higher education to provide an ideal community for students to grow personally, professionally, and academically. Contrary to the purpose of fraternal organizations, membership is a contributing factor of substance abuse, poor academic performance, intolerance for human differences, and involvement in illegal activities, such as hazing, physical abuse, and sexual assault (Perkins, Zimmerman, & Janosik, 2011). The lack of congruence between the organizations values and behavior of members has demonstrated that the presence and influence of fraternities and sororities is not consistently beneficial to an institution. Peer norms and socialization heavily impact organizational structure and culture. The influence of peer norms facilitates the way members are socialized in the organization and set the foundation for behavior. Personal characteristics may encourage individuals to self-select an organization reflective of their own drinking patterns, however, the accepted and consistent behaviors within the organization will establish the overall culture. Greek organizations are at the center of the campus alcohol culture with enormous influence on campus wide drinking and a successful intervention to decrease this alarming degree of drinking in the Greek system would be a prerequisite for addressing college-drinking problems (Park, Sher, Wood, & Krull 2009). Thus, understanding the alcohol education resources available to students in fraternities and sororities, and the ways in which they are utilized, is vital to reducing harm associated with alcohol misuse. To reduce harm associated with alcohol misuse among students in collegiate fraternities and sororities, alcohol education programming must be effective, personalized to the needs of the student body, campus, and greater community, and accessible for students in fraternities and sororities.
” A World to Suit Themselves”: Student-Constructed Narratives and the Hidden History of College Life
DM Brown – 2017 – uknowledge.uky.edu
… This dissertation examined college students’ self-created accounts of their time in college in order
to identify … to, the ways in which students and their class cohorts antagonized one another, hazing,
and class … Theses and Dissertations–Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. …
to identify … to, the ways in which students and their class cohorts antagonized one another, hazing,
and class … Theses and Dissertations–Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. …
Author ORCID Identifier
Year of Publication
2017
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
Education
Department
Educational Policy Studies and Eval
First Advisor
Dr. John R. Thelin
Abstract
An individual’s years in college are a time of trial and transformation. This dissertation examined college students’ self-created accounts of their time in college in order to identify students’ significant meaning-making activities during those years. Four primary areas of student life were investigated: the rules that students were expected to adhere to, the ways in which students and their class cohorts antagonized one another, hazing, and class competitions.
A comparative historical approach was used to analyze student-created accounts of college life in the years 1871-1941. Archival research at a geographically diverse sample of fourteen colleges and universities provided primary source materials created by students, including correspondence, diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks.
Collectively, these sources affirm that students derived their significant meaning-making experiences from their extracurricular activities. An additional dimension of the study proposed an extension of the work of sociologist Burton Clark on organizational sagas. An analysis of students’ self-reported experiences suggest that Clark’s notion of organizational sagas extends beyond the bounds of discrete institutions, reaching down to the level of individuals and upward to college students as a collective entity.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.208
Recommended Citation
Brown, David M., “”A World to Suit Themselves”: Student-Constructed Narratives and the Hidden History of College Life” (2017). Theses and Dissertations–Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation. 52.
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/epe_etds/52
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed. excerpt
For Alabama Sororities, the Path to Diversity Is Personal
Officials see progress in the numbers. More important, they say, it’s positive individual experiences that matter.
JUNE 20, 2017
Stasia Foster is the first African-American president of her sorority at the University of Alabama — but she doesn’t see herself as a symbol of her campus’s progress. Instead she sees herself as the leader of the community that made her feel welcome in a new place. It is an accomplishment, she said, not qualified by race.
Four years ago the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa saw protests and national attention because of the barriers for minority students among its sororities and fraternities. This year, three African-American women took over the presidencies of their traditionally white sororities, including Ms. Foster, whose sorority is one of the largest on the campus.
“I’ve had a positive experience, and I don’t take for granted that I am the first woman of color to be the president of the sorority,” said Ms. Foster. “But I definitely would hope that that wasn’t because of the color of my skin.”
The women’s appointments, university administrators say, are evidence of a changing campus. These steps toward more inclusivity are not a natural progression, but stem from a systemic, years-long effort to diversify Greek life. In 2016, the university introduced an action plan that promised to monitor the effectiveness of existing diversity initiatives, to train leaders of the Greek organizations in the campus’s discrimination and harassment policies, and, among other efforts, to explore the possibility of need-based scholarships to cover fraternity and sorority dues.
Steven Hood, the associate vice president for student affairs who is carrying out the action plan, said he has seen significant progress. But there’s a long way to go.
In 2012, only two African-American or black students were members of the Alabama Panhellenic Association’s sororities, according to the annual “Greek Population Demographic Trends” report. That number increased to 72 members by 2016.
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Here are the questions–Moderator Hank Nuwer.
- Why no criminal charges here?
- Why have the names been kept from the public in this hazing incident. Oregon is a public institution.
- As Penn State, Texas and other colleges adopt transparency and put all club infractions prominently on a web site, why is Oregon playing the “information keep-away” game with the press? Hopefully, the Register-Guard will file a FOIA request as the San Diego, Grand Rapids, U-Georgia Red & Black have done when similarly information blocked.