Interviewed today in Greater NYC by Byron Hurt. Was excited to meet him and producer Natalie Bullock Brown.  Wind and rain have delayed my plane to Indianapolis many times. Update–United cancelled the flight.   Going to be a long night in an airport chair.

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Greetings, Loyal Readers.  It is 8:30 a.m. in New York City, and I have a great view of the skyline from my motel across the Hudson River.  Very excited to be working under esteemed filmmaker Byron Hurt and the accomplished Natalie Bullock Brown on the forthcoming documentary Haze.  The hazing deaths and injuries continue to discourage many of us, but we have to turn that discouragement into probing journalism (for myself, Byron, Natalie) and unrelenting activism (HazingPrevention.org and Stophazing, among others.  All day today, I will keep my friends Mr. and Mrs. Champion, parents of Robert, in my thoughts to do my absolute best.

I am in Warsaw delivering a lecture on this subject for an international conference on prisons.

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Here is the link.

 

excerpt: The East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office confirmed Tuesday that hazing charges filed against Patrick Forde had been dropped. The announcement comes just weeks after one of Forde’s fraternity brothers, Matthew Naquin, was sentenced to prison.