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The Fall 2024 semester has a rough and disgusting start due to multiple hazings: football and fraternity both

In my opinion, the fall of 2024 shows a rash of incidents in higher education institutions & high school athletics that should concern all. To wit a sampling:

 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-30/football-player-alleges-he-was-assaulted-by-teammates-at-santa-margarita-catholic-high-school

 

Deadline approaches for Hank Nuwer Hazing Prevention Award https://www.ngla.org/individual-awards/

 

Thanks for reading, friends and family.  Hank

 

 

 

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Selected Hank Nuwer news clippings.

Hank Nuwer interviews, International

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/oct/13/student-athlete-hazing-victims-800000-per-year

Der Spiegel, Germany, May 24, 2007

Das tatsächliche Ausmaß derartiger Praktiken in US-Studentenverbindungen ist unklar. Nur eines ist sicher: Hazing hat Tradition. Der Journalist Hank Nuwer, der in den siebziger Jahren zu recherchieren begann, datiert den ersten von über 100 Fällen mit tödlichem Ausgang auf das Jahr 1838 in Kentucky. Die Liste der Methoden für das, was in Europa schon seit dem 15. Jahrhundert unter Studenten praktiziert worden sein soll, ist lang und reicht von Brandmarken mit Zigaretten und glühenden Eisen über das Wälzen in Fäkalien und Erbrochenem bis hin zu sexueller Gewalt und Elektroschocks.

Der Spiegel, Germany, October 16, 2013

Le professeur Hank Nuwer, auteur de Hazing : Destroying Young Lives, est l’un des experts sur ce sujet. D’après les statistiques qu’il a recueillies, il y a eu 40 décès dans des circonstances semblables, avec l’excès d’alcool comme cause du décès, aux États-Unis entre 2007 et 2017. Par conséquent, dans tous les États sauf six il y a maintenant des lois contre les initiations extrêmes et dans dix États ces activités sont considérées comme des délits mineurs ou des crimes si elles entraînent des dommages corporels.

Le professeur Nuwer m’a dit qu’il a commencé à écrire sur ce sujet et à sensibiliser la population après le décès d’un étudiant à l’Université du Nevada, à Reno, où il avait lui-même étudié et joué au rugby et au baseball. Il se souvient aussi d’être intervenu quand il a vu un jeune homme « avec de l’écume qui sortait de la bouche après avoir bu de l’alcool de maïs à 95 % ».

Corriere dela Sera

Un mese orribile, insomma, ma queste cinque storie non sono isolate: si tratta di hazing death, morti dovuti ai riti di iniziazione e alle eccessive quantità di alcol consumato — spesso illegalmente: i ragazzi non potrebbero bere fino a 21 anni — alle feste delle confraternite. Gran parte delle vittime infatti sono matricole, sottoposte a rituali selvaggi per entrare a far parte del gruppo. Secondo Hank Nuwer, professore del Franklin College che cura un database di questi incidenti, sono oltre 45 i casi nell’ultimo decennio e circa 250 dall’Ottocento a oggi: c’è chi è morto di polmonite, chi per gli sforzi fisici, chi sotto un treno, chi è affogato e chi per abuso di alcol o droga.

Veja

Os Estados Unidos também tentam minorar o problema pela via legal – e têm falhado igualmente. Em 44 estados, o trote já é considerado crime. Contudo, 29 estudantes morreram vítimas de trotes violentos…

Leia mais em: https://veja.abril.com.br/educacao/trote-uma-pratica-medieval-que-desafia-as-universidades/

Em 44 estados, o trote já é considerado crime. Contudo, 29 estudantes morreram vítimas de trotes violentos na última década, cinco deles só em 2008, segundo levantamento de Hank Nuwer, professor do Franklin College

Leia mais em: https://veja.abril.com.br/educacao/trote-uma-pratica-medieval-que-desafia-as-universidades/

 

El Confidencial

El experto en fraternidades y acoso universitario, el profesor Hank Nuwer, explica a El Confidencial las pruebas de acceso a la hermandad. “Durante las décadas que he estado estudiando la novatada, he escuchado a miembros de bandas y fraternidades decir que no tenían otra elección aparte de capitular y hacer cosas que muchos lamentaron”. Recuerda cómo algunos miembros murieron ahogados o atropellados al intentar superar “pruebas de valentía”.

Nuwer afirma que ocho de cada diez novatadas que han acabado con un muerto (60 casos desde 2005) están relacionadas con el excesivo consumo de alcohol. Además, exige a las universidades ser “más transparentes, lo que significa que los directores deportivos, entrenadores y administradores no pueden mirar hacia otra parte cuando sale otro caso de novatadas”.

 

Magnet

El caso de Estados Unidos. La cultura de las fraternidades y la loca vida universitaria que hemos visto en las películas americanas no es solo un relato ficticio, sino el reflejo de una realidad que tiene lugar año tras año, con el inicio de cada curso. De hecho, el nivel de dureza de las pruebas americanas es tan elevada que el portal dedicado a las novatadas y gestionado por el periodista Hank Nuwer, lleva contabilizando las muertes vinculadas a estas prácticas desde 1959.

Noticias

En Estados Unidos el asunto cuenta con una regulación férrea, aunque no homogénea. Según los datos del portal del experto en el tema Hank Nuwer, desde 1959 en EEUU se han registrado al menos una muerte al año por novatadas en ámbitos académicos.

Le Point

Mais Hank Nuwer, auteur d’un livre sur le bizutage et qui a répertorié les décès dus au bizutage sur les campus américains depuis 1838, se montre moins optimiste.

“Très peu de gens vont en prison”, dit-il. “Les universités doivent prendre plus de responsabilités”, ajoute-t-il. “Ne vous attendez pas à ce que les gens apprennent de leurs erreurs”.

 

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Shame on University of Mississippi for withholding a public record:

Old Miss Does the Wrong Thing: It needed to name the suspended fraternity

https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/09/05/ole-miss-places-fraternity-temporary-suspension-following-alleged-hazing-incident/

 

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Dartmouth student writer remembers drowned fraternity member: The Dartmouth

For Won Jang ’26, sharing was second nature — home-cooked food, his love of music and even his optimism. Known for his creativity and warmhearted demeanor, Jang inspired those around him with his profound generosity and care for others.

According to his father, Hongpil Jang, Jang was a gifted musician with a “deep love for music.” He played piano, several Korean instruments, trumpet — winning awards “as one of the top performers on the East Coast” — and even taught himself electric guitar and bass in college. Despite Jang’s own talents, however, he remained most committed to sharing music with others.

“He loved sharing what he had and was proud to be who he was,” Hongpil Jang wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. “He created a Korean club at school to teach his friends Korean and voluntarily taught Janggu, Korean drum, to adults in the Delaware Korean School, even performing with them.”

Jang, a biomedical engineering major from Middletown, Del., was reported missing on July 7 and found in the Connecticut River that evening. He died at 20 years old. During his time at the College, Jang served as a project manager at the DALI lab, participated in the TuckLAB entrepreneurship program and mentored international students for the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. He also brought his love of music to campus, co-founding two student bands during his time at Dartmouth — Catalysis, later renamed Silkstream, and Bored Shorts.

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You decide. Justice? Or did Boone County Assistant Prosecutor Nick Komoroski drop the ball?

Columbia Daily Tribune

The dropping of charges in one final University of Missouri hazing case brings an end to at least two years of hearings, trial delays and pleas from the 11 criminally charged after the alcohol poisoning of Danny Santulli on Oct. 19, 2021, at the now closed Phi Gamma Delta fraternity on the MU campus.

Benjamin Karl was to have a hearing Monday, but felony hazing charges were dropped Thursday by Boone County Assistant Prosecutor Nick Komoroski. This follows charges dismissed against other hazing defendants Samuel Lane, John O’Neill and Benjamin Parres after Santulli’s “pledge dad” Ryan Delanty pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges last month.

Terms of Karl’s case dismissal were not known by time of publication.

Inquiries seeking to confirm dismissal were sent to both Karl’s defense attorney Ben Faber and the Boone County Prosecutor’s office. The Boone County circuit court provided confirmation of case dismissal.

Nearly two dozen civil lawsuits previously were settled. While four defendants had their cases dismissed, seven others, including Delanty, pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges where most had minimal jail time among other penalties.