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Pennsylvania high school board debates servitude (“subtle hazing”) issue

Spring Grove link:

Excerpt: “Because the rules are for both team members and coaches/advisors, board members Emily Sindlinger and Michael Brookhart took exception last month to aspects of subtle hazing that would prevent a coach from directing freshman or new players on a team to be responsible for carrying equipment, water bottles, or other items to and from the practice fields.”

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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