Tracking hazing deaths

Hazing injury to Charles Strout, Bowdoin College, 1881

Post author By Hank Nuwer
Post date November 28, 2011
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Here is a photo (with story) of Charles Strout who suffered a serious eye injury when allegedly someone in a patrolling hazing party threw a chunk of coal through his window. The father sued those he believed responsible. The article in the New York Times ran 130 years ago today.

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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