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Bream testifies that he knew nothing: Penn State Beta Theta Pi hearing–Philly.Com report

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The 56-year-old Pennsylvania State University football trainer who was living in a campus fraternity in February when a sophomore pledge died said he had no role in the house party that night and didn’t know the teen was left to die on a couch after an alleged night of booze-soaked hazing. “I would in no way, shape or form give permission” for alcohol abuse or a drinking “gauntlet,” the trainer, Tim Bream, testified Wednesday.

By 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

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