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Hank Nuwer: selected media coverage

Selected Media Coverage for Hank Nuwer Books:
Hazing and Bullying (Canada TV)
Washington Post, 2016
WBUR: Hazing homicide and the death of Robert Champion (Hank Nuwer)
Tara Morgan of ABC6 interview with Hank Nuwer
Encyclopedia: Hazers got off too easily in hazing court cases

Texas A & M Bonfire Tragedy — CNN

Cited by The Atlantic magazine.

 

New York Times: Interview by Anemona Hartocollis (Dec. 15, 2017)

“No acceptable level of hazing”: hazing expert on Wheaton College football

ABC News interviews with Hank Nuwer and John Hechinger

Indianapolis Star: Hazing Expert Turns to the Novel

The 21st: Sexual Hazing (Interview with Hank Nuwer)

ESPN athletic hazing statistics with Tom Farrey

Time Magazine’s Katie Reilly

How can hazing be stopped? Q & A with hazing expert Hank Nuwer

NPR Morning Edition with Hank Nuwer

Michel Martin: Hazing Is An Equal Opportunity Disgrace (Hank Nuwer). Read the transcript.

The Bloomington Report with Hank Nuwer

Juan Williams (Talk of the Nation with Hank Nuwer)

Frank Bruni of the New York Times (opinion), Nov. 17, 2017

Sean Rossman of USA Today with video (Gordie Bailey, Chi Psi, Colorado University)

USA Today piece on twenty years of hazing deaths, Sept. 5, 2019

ABC News with reporter Emily Shapiro

Hank Nuwer on writing tips: Midwest Writers

Time Magazine (2017)

“How to Stop Hazing”

Interview by Tracy Smith of CBS (below)

TV commentator Tracy Smith interviews Hank Nuwer for CBS

Interview with Midwest Writers

Interview with The New York Times

Expert Opinions: The New York Times

Investigative Reports: Hazing–a Deadly Game with Bill Kurtis

Chronicle of Higher Education

Michel Martin (NPR): Hazing As an Equal Opportunity Disgrace

NPR All Things Considered

Hazing Experts on Hazing Behaviors, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Hank Nuwer, Lionel Tiger

Mark Walsh, “Hazing Is Widespread, Student Survey Shows, Education Week, September 6, 2000.

IUPUI Faculty member  considered hazing expertNuwerIND

Great Britain considers hazing in USA groups, “Burning Sands” review

Hank Nuwer’s “Hazing: A Weed in the Garden of Evil.”

Hazing in high school athletics

Hazing: Destroying Young Lives:

“Must the USA Endure 50 years of Hazing Deaths?” by Hank Nuwer

Family Circle–HankNuwerinFamilyCircle

The Persistence of Hazing in the Military

Alfred University Hazing Study

The Immorality of Sorority Hazing

 

The Sordid History of Hazing

Fraternities and Greek Life: the good and the bad.

Hank Nuwer on alcohol-related hazing deaths: my quiet rebellion

Hazing: a Weed in the Garden of Academe (Term coined in 1860 at Harvard by outraged educator)

The cautionary bad example of convicted band hazer Dante Martin following death of Robert Champion

Why [former] University of Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman was dead wrong about hazing

Hank Nuwer interview with Ekaterine Kotrikadze  for RTVI (Russian distribution) Television

Nuwer book review of Nicholas L. Syrett, “The Company He Keeps”–syrett

Hank Nuwer, U of Maine hazing education conference

Podcast with Hank Nuwer on death of Nolan Burch — or click here and scroll

Death of Samuel Martinez at Washington State: fourth recent Greek death

Newsweek on Greek life suspension

Syracuse Daily Orange commentary

Hank Nuwer Video: Dartmouth College, 2005

Walter Dean Jennings, Hazing Victim
Walter Dean Jennings

Death of Walter Dean Jennings by water torture: documentary

University of Texas Cowboys get off easy after second hazing-related death

Meeting Minutes: Hank Nuwer’s report to University of Texas Regents–Texas

Hank Nuwer letters: Mark Steadman Collection

Talking to Your Son or Daughter about Hazing

Washington Post: Parents of Victims Fighting Back

Columbus Journal six-part investigation of Ohio University and death of Collin Wiant

Wall Street Journal: Criminal laws are a good start. But no more than a slight deterrent.

Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News: 8 deaths; interview with Mrs. Wiant

Hazing Laws toughening in regard to Greek groups: New York Times

Ruth Sterner’s Hazing Scholarship

The difficulties of halting hazing in fraternal groups: Buffalo News

Teen Vogue discusses alcohol reform

Steven Loya: Chico State Hazing Hero (RIP Matt Carrington)

Vice United Kingdom discusses a United Kingdom hazing death

Mortes em trotes colocam em xeque fraternidades nos EUA:  Mundo news:  

Hazers evade harsh penalties: Columbus, Ohio

Article on history of hazing: Reference to Hazing: Destroying Young Lives Ozy
Brad Wolverton interview for Chronicle of Higher Education  on NCAA hazing reforms
Dayton Daily News: hazing database search from Hanknuwer.Com
The British Evasion: Hazing, initiations and the death of student Ed Farmer (Vice)
The Economist:  alcohol and hazing, etc.
University of Michigan site on hazing.
HazingPreventionj.org guides re college and high school hazing with Nick Branson
Alanna Nash book review of Broken Pledges
Underground and rogue fraternities
Death by drowning during initiation
2017 — a year of Hazing deaths, Chronicle of Higher Education
Editorial: A clear stand against hazing after Pennsylvania’s new hazing bill is signed by governor
Football high school hazing disasters and why coaches must serve warnings: Orlando Sentinel
Coe College speaker Hank Nuwer interview
Hazing expert at Franklin College
Indiana’s hazing reforms (interview)
ABC 20/20 interview on high school hazing
Why Does Hazing Continue? by Alexandra Robbins. Because alums want it to continue.
Hank Nuwer in dugout & at bat, Indianapolis Clowns, 1986
Deadly (sometimes) traditions
Syracuse Post-Standard column by Sean Kirst
Nelson Price column on hazing in sports
Efforts to stop hazing: Indianapolis Star
Sonya Friedman interview with Hank Nuwer and Eileen Stevens
Natalie Morales and Hank Nuwer interview
Mindless campus traditions
Expert Opinion on Hazing: Hank Nuwer and Lionel Tiger (New York Times)
Hank Nuwer, #14, Indianapolis Clowns
In Defense of Dez Bryant
Hazing in Canada: Hank Nuwer Op-ed
NPR: Florida A & M Band Hazing
High School Violent Hazing (New York Times)
Addressing the Hazing Problem
Groupthink and Hazing by Hank Nuwer (CNN)
Changing Laws on hazing at state level

 

“People ask why pursue this seemingly impossible challenge to end hazing deaths. One autopsy room. Dozens of autopsy photos. Beautiful, beautiful families no longer to have a complete family hug. I have to try to make a difference.”–Hank Nuwer, author Hazing: Destroying Young Lives

HazingPrevention.Org Hank Nuwer Hazing Hero Lianne Kowiak with Hank and Gosia Nuwer, Feb. 24, 2018

February 8, 2017 A close call at Washington State By Wilson Criscione

Read “A year after death at fraternity, the shock still reverberates.” An article from Feb. 4, 2018 by columnist Bill Schackner

CTV with Hank Nuwer

Toronto Sun and St Mike’s football scandal

Hazing and Mental Health

Read the Washington Post interview  with Hank Nuwer

Excerpt:

WILLIAMS Why does hazing exist in high school sports? Does it satisfy some sort of innate need for a rite of passage?

NUWER It gives students a combination of things they’re looking for at that age: the need for a lark, the immersion in secrecy with their peers, a passage from liminal space where they went from not being a member of a group to becoming a member of a group, and then the fact there is a kind of . . . rite of passage associated with hazing and initiations in school that has kind of a romance to it. INTERVIEW BELOW AT LINK

Preston Williams. “Abuse Survives in a Haze of Mixed Messages about Teamwork.” The Washington Post, February 12, 2009, Pg. PG10,

Read Hank’s interviews with New York Times, NPR, Chronicle of Higher Education, etc.  They are now linked below.

LINK TO HAZING DEATHS PAGE

Michael Davis, Beaten Pledge, 1994 death by beating

 

BBC Podcast with interviewer Nicolas Jackson.  Interviews with activists Pam Campion and Emily Pualan of HPO. Also Hank Nuwer in Madrid, Spain

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Wisconsin Public Radio: Hazing and Bullying in NFL (Richie Incognito, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, Dallas, New Orleans and college athletics

Buffalo News (April 21, 2019) Story by Aaron Besecker

Chronicle of Higher Education with Katherine Mangan

New York Times: Interview by Anemona Hartocollis (Dec. 15, 2017)

Black Issues in Higher Education

Tara Morgan interview with Hank Nuwer (ABC-TV)

The Allentown Morning Call

“No acceptable level of hazing”: hazing expert on Wheaton College football

Buffalo News, 1991. On Broken Pledges

Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Chicago Tribune

ABC News interviews with Hank Nuwer and John Hechinger

Hazing: Not just a fraternity problem, 1991

Los Angeles Times

Indianapolis Star: Hazing Expert Turns to the Novel

The 21st: Sexual Hazing (Interview with Hank Nuwer)

ESPN athletic hazing statistics with Tom Farrey

Time Magazine’s Katie Reilly

How can hazing be stopped? Q & A with hazing expert Hank Nuwer

NPR Morning Edition with Hank Nuwer

Michel Martin: An Equal Opportunity Disgrace (Hank Nuwer). Read the transcript.

The Bloomington Report with Hank Nuwer

Juan Williams (Talk of the Nation with Hank Nuwer)

Frank Bruni of the New York Times (opinion), Nov. 17, 2017

Christian Science Monitor

Sean Rossman of USA Today with video (Gordie Bailey, Chi Psi, Coloradu University)

ABC News with reporter Emily Shapiro

Orlando Sentinel: Hazing Pushes Fraternities Underground (Renegade chapters)

Hank Nuwer on writing tips: Midwest Writers

Recognizing that high school hazing is going on

Parents and Hazing, Lisa Katz

A Theology of Hazing

The spread of high school hazing

Interview with Kojo Nnamdi

Time Magazine (2017)

Jim Mandelaro Why Hazing Continues

Los Angeles Times on brutal hazing in sport

Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times

The dark side of sports

Don’t call hazing a harmless prank

Fox News

Chicago Tribune

“How to Stop Hazing“

Interview by Tracy Smith of CBS (below)

TV commentator Tracy Smith interviews Hank Nuwer for CBS

Interview with Robert Kennedy on High School Hazing

CBS Austin interview with Hank Nuwer

Interview with Midwest Writers

Interview with The New York Times

Expert Opinions: The New York Times

CNN and Hank Nuwer

Investigative Reports: Hazing–a Deadly Game with Bill Kurtis

Chronicle of Higher Education

Michel Martin (NPR): Hazing As an Equal Opportunity Disgrace

NPR All Things Considered

NPR Diane Rehm Show

BBC

Hank Nuwer in oldest square in Madrid with interviewer Nicolas Jackson
BBC’s Nicolas Jackson interviews Hank Nuwer

With Minnesota Public Radio’s Kerri Miller

Kara Newhouse

With Scott Sniffen

On High School Hazing with Education World.

Interview with Travis Braun of Buffalo Spree on Fraser (Bob) Drew, One Long Wild Conversation

Quote: Hank Nuwer on hazing. “You give up your sense of respect in order to get exterior respect.

Diane Rehm Show, NPR

Education World interview with Hank Nuwer

John Formichella documentary

Melanie Dostis, USA Today

Bridget Guernsey Riordan book review

William Celis III

Sorority Hazing (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Hank Nuwer and Eileen Stevens, Alfred University award

The pattern of Greek fraternity deaths, Inside Higher Education

Salt Lake Tribune

Student Development Theories and Hazing

Sorority Recruitment

Hazing Law and Student Affairs, Jasmine Kelly, et al

National Pan-Hellenic Council

A death at Fresno State

CQR

Fran Becque thoughtful essay

The Rasch Model

Hazing as a risk management issue in athletics

Does the United States Need a Federal Hazing Law? Devon M. Alvarez

A Heavy Price to Pay Just to Bond

Hank Nuwer “Hazing Watchdog”

Am I My Brother’s Keeper?  Hazing Laws Over Time

The Necessity of Hazing Legislation: Karrie Gurbacki scholarship

Boarding School Review

With Roxana Saberi

Hank Nuwer: Keys to curbing high school hazing

WTHR interview

Ian R. Tofler (2016) Bullying, hazing, and workplace harassment: the nexus in professional sports as exemplified by the first NFL Wells report, International Review of Psychiatry, 28:6,623-628, DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2016.1208163

Kyle D. Massey & Jennifer Massey (2017) It Happens, Just Not to Me: Hazing on a Canadian University Campus, Journal of College and Character, 18:1, 46-63, DOI: 10.1080/2194587X.2016.1260477

Liesbeth Mann, Allard R. Feddes, Bertjan Doosje & Agneta H. Fischer (2016) Withdraw or affiliate? The role of humiliation during initiation rituals, Cognition and Emotion, 30:1, 80-100,DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2015.1050358

Authors: van Raalte, Judy L. ; Cornelius, Allen E. ; Linder, Darwyn E. ; Brewer, Britton W. “The Relationship Between Hazing and Team Cohesion.” Journal of Sport Behavior (University of South Alabama), December 1, 2007.

Jennifer J. Waldron & Christopher L. Kowalski (2009) “Crossing the Line,” Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 80:2, 291-302, DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2009.10599564

jay johnson & Jessica W. Chin (2016) Hazing rites/rights: using outdoor- and adventure education-based orientation to effect positive change for first-year athletes, Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 16:1, 16-30, DOI: 10.1080/14729679.2015.1050681

Jennifer J. Waldron (2012) A Social Norms Approach to Hazing Prevention Workshops, Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 3:1, 12-20, DOI: 10.1080/21520704.2011.639854

Jennifer J. Waldron, Quinten Lynn & Vikki Krane (2011) “Duct tape, icy hot & paddles: narratives of initiation onto US male sport teams,” Sport, Education and Society, 16:1, 111-125, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.531965

Jennifer J. Waldron and Christopher Kowalski, “Looking the Other Way: Athletes’ Perceptions of Coaches’ Responses to Hazing,” Intl Journal of sport science and coaching; Vol 5, Issue 1, 2010. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2194587X.2016.1260477

M.E. Lafferty, C. Wakefield & H. Brown (2017) “We do it for the team” – Student-athletes’ initiation practices and their impact on group cohesion, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 15:4, 438-446, DOI: 10.1080/1612197X.2015.1121507

 

High School Hazing (Scholastic) by Hank Nuwer

 

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Sons of the Dawn

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New scholarship from Brazil: Hazing at the university and gender violence: a literature integrative review

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7213/psicolargum.39.103.AO02 Trotes na universidade e violência de gênero: uma revisão integrativa de literatura Hazing at the university and gender violence: a literature integrative review   Novatadas en la universidad y violencia de género: una revisión integradora de la literatura Adriane Roso https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-133X Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), adriane.roso@ufsm.br Janine Gudolle de Souza https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6477-4190 […]

A Poland-Union City Love story.

Here is the link. Hank   My wife Gosia earned her Green Card in October 2019. She gave eight-weeks’ notice at her chief accountant job in Poland and shipped what she could to Indiana. “Wait, how did a fellow from Indiana meet a Polish lass,” you may ask? I persuaded Gosia in June of 2015 […]

No charges in Cornell hazing death

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