Tracking hazing deaths

USA Today misses the real point in its coverage of Washington’s harassment of new employees

Post author By Hank Nuwer
Post date September 10, 2012
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Once again a major league team flouts hazing and job harassment guidelines, and that was the story USA Today blew. And the team lost 8-0 and still did this nonsense? http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/09/washington-nationals-dress-rookies-up-in-gymnast-outfits-bryce-harper/1#.UE27EhjajoA

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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