This day in hazing: the death of Matt Carrington at Chico State Chi Tau

Post author By Hank Nuwer
Post date February 2, 2012
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Moderator note: I respectfully disagree with NPR writer’s calling Matt’s death an accident. His hazing resulted in a felony conviction. That conviction of Gabriel Maestreti says this was no accident. Read about Matt’s Law, his legacy, in California.

By Hank Nuwer

Hank Nuwer is the Indiana-based author of 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 new book is Hazing: Destroying Young Lives from Indiana University Press.

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