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The Jensen Project adds hazing to list of banned behaviors

Janet Jansen writes:

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My efforts have developed into The Jensen Project, which among its many initiatives has established a special program at the University of New Haven in Connecticut. The students who have joined the project — and at times there are more men than women taking part, which is truly encouraging — have been enthusiastic about designing programs to prevent sexual abuse, bullying and harassment. I’m especially proud of their Stand Up and Speak Out program, because it is only when people learn to talk openly and honestly about these issues that we can begin to change the culture.

This is obviously just one program in very large world. But I am convinced that teaching compassion and empathy and promoting courage and openness are the right policies. If our model can be adopted by enough schools, the day may eventually come when people will look back at the Cosby trial as an anachronism of a long-gone era.

Jensen is the founder of The Jensen Project, which is committed to curbing harassment, hazing, bullying and sexual abuse among young people

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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