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Canada school again mired in physical hazing story

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Excerpt from Sun Media:

Two St. Albert teens have been charged after a hockey-stick hazing, re-igniting a problem that has plagued the city.

But cops say it’s just a few bad apples spoiling a cleanup of the problem.

“There’s always a small minority that have to learn the hard way,” said Cpl. Don Murray of the St. Albert RCMP.

A 16- and 17-year-old have been charged with assault with a weapon following a June incident, he said.

The youth allegedly used a hockey stick to bash the butts of two former junior high students about to enter high school. The assaults happened in the Akinsdale neighbourhood of the city.

The victims were left with “severe bruising” to their posteriors.

The attack was reported to a school liaison officer June 20.

Police expect to charge three youths for the attack.

After a rash of incidents last year, cops said they would not tolerate hazing.

“By and large, the message has gotten out there,” said Murray.

RICHARD.LIEBRECHT

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, the Alaska Press Club awarded him first place in the Best Columnist division and Best Humorist, second place.

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 Warsaw, Poland and 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 and in his weekly column "Far from Randolph" in the Winchester Star-Gazette of Randolph County, Indiana.

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