The National Hazing Prevention Week Essay Contest honored individuals whose personal essay best answered the question “What would you do if you encountered hazing?” The North-American Interfraternity Conference awarded cash prizes to the top three essayists. First place was awarded to Savannah Jackson of Destiny Christian School in Norman, Oklahoma, who compared hazing to bullying and saidshe would report hazing to authorities. The second place award winner chose to remain anonymous. Third place was awarded to Nicole Donaldson of Culver City High School in Culver City, California. In her essay, Donaldson discussed hazing myths and said if she encountered hazing, she would refuse to participate and would not join the organization.
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Winners of HazingPrevention.org Essay Contest Announced
- Post author By Hank Nuwer
- Post date April 30, 2011
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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 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 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