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More positive news: Starkey Memorial Softball Game

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Moderator comment: All of you and Carson’s parents hit a home run even before you came to bat. Bravo.

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Nearly three years after the death of Cal Poly student Carson Starkey, several sororities came together to raise money for his parents’ foundation to stop alcohol poisoning and hazing rituals on college campuses.
Fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha held their 2nd annual “Homeruns Against Hazing” softball tournament.
Starkey’s family started the non-profit “Aware Awake Alive” to prevent another child from dying of alcohol poisoning.
All proceeds from the homeruns for hazing tournament will go to the foundation.
It was a day filled with cheering, and great plays. Six sororities battling it out for softball bragging rights.

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, the Alaska Press Club awarded him first place in the Best Columnist division and Best Humorist, second place.

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 Warsaw, Poland and Fairbanks, Alaska. Nuwer is a former columnist for the Greenville (Ohio)Early Bird and former managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.
Nuwer was named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists columnist of the year in 2021 for his “After Darke” column in the Early Bird. He also won third place for the column in 2022 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He and his wife Gosia, recently of Union City, Ind., have owned 20 acres in Alaska for many years. “The move is a sort-of coming home for us,” said Nuwer. As a journalist, he’s written about the Alaskan Iditarod sled-dog race and other Alaska topics. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com and in his weekly column "Far from Randolph" in the Winchester Star-Gazette of Randolph County, Indiana.

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