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By Tim Crone
The Examiner
Posted Aug 14, 2010 @ 01:26 AM
Independence, MO —

The high school sports season is now under way and team chemistry is beginning to develop.

The one thing than can undermine that chemistry is hazing.

Hazing has existed since the time of ancient Greece. The tradition can even escalate each year as each group of athletes believes they need to add their own stamp. The harmless ideas of young athletes can grow into a critical problem for a coach and team.

Student athletes set a standard of behavior among the student population and there is no place for mental and physical hazing. Professional football players receive publicity for their hazing activities which creates a poor example for young athletes.

Athletic administrations and coaches need to be proactive to fend off hazing by establishing strict guidelines to handle hazing issues. Research indicates that when asked, students state that the way to stop hazing is adult intervention with strong disciplinary action. Continuous education on the topic of hazing will keep awareness high. It will also dispel the myths that hazing will bring a team together or that it is a team building exercise.

A great article on the topic of hazing can be found in the Spring 2010 edition of the Interscholastic Athletic Administration, “Clear Horizons” by Colleen McGlone. Team chemistry is best built through hard work toward attaining the common goal of success. There is nothing cool of humorous about hazing!

By Hank Nuwer

Journalist Hank 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. 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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