Tracking hazing deaths

Massachusetts hazing “prank” goes too far and student punched in groin

Post author By Hank Nuwer
Post date January 26, 2007
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WHITMAN, Mass. — Five students were suspended after a hazing incident, Whitman-Hanson school officials said.NewsCenter 5’s Jim Boyd reported that the victim is a freshman member of the Whitman-Hanson track team.School officials said the incident happened last Wednesday as a group of male students was getting ready for after-school athletics.

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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