International Hazing Tracking Site
Hazing Arrests, Law
Changes, Deaths, Research
Moderated by Hank
Nuwer, editor of The
Hazing
Reader
Hank Nuwer wrote his first hazing article for Human Behavior
magazine on the importance of bystander intervention following the
1975 death of football player
John Davies at the University of Nevada where he
was then a graduate student. His most recent book is The Hazing Reader
(Indiana University Press),
an anthology of hazing articles
written by well-known hazing experts. He also has
written Wrongs of Passage (Indiana University Press); High School Hazing
(Scholastic) and the groundbreaking Broken Pledges: the Deadly Rite of Hazing (1990).
Hazing Prevention Blog High School Hazing International Hazing/Ragging News Stophazing.org Columns Speaking on Hazing
Buffalo State College Hazing Collection Twitter Hank Nuwer Anti-Hazing Hero Columns Urban Legends
Links to Recent Videos and Interviews and Columns:
A Bid Night alcohol binge at Vincennes University kills William Torrance; another Filipino fraternity death.
Video: CBS News with Mr. and Mrs Starkey, parents of Carson Starkey: Seeking an End to Hazing Deaths
Mr. Kyle Allen
Criticism
of media coverage associated with the death of Presbyterian College
football player and Pi Kappa Alpha (Mu Chapter) member Kyle L. Allen
Thoughts on the death of Samuel Mason at Tau Kappa Epsilon, Radford University
Hazing: National Public Radio, Iowa audio tape to download or listen to; Interview with Debbie Smith, mother of Matt Carrington (Matt's Law, Calif.)
Robert Champion: The history of hazing as an equal opportunity disgrace (NPR's Michel Martin)
Video: Sports Hazing
The Hank Nuwer AntiHazing Hero Award, Chico State Video
Video: Interview with the family of Chad Meredith, inspiration for Chad's Hazing Law in Florida
Updated February 23, 2012
Bio:
Hank
Nuwer is a writer
and social critic who writes on the topic of hazing
as an international human rights abuse issue and USA high school and
campus safety issue. The State University of New York's Buffalo State
College awarded him a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1999 and Hon.
Doctor of Humane Letters
in 2006 for his long career as a hazing historian and researcher. His
first investigative story on hazing appeared in 1978 for Human Behavior
Magazine, including his groundbreaking interview on hazing as a form of
Groupthink conducted with Groupthink theorist Irving Janis.
Awards: A former
faculty member at Ball State University, he was elected to the
BSU Journalism Hall of Fame in 2010. A former member of the board of
directors of HazingPrevention.org, HPO named an annual award the
Hank
Nuwer Anti-hazing Hero Award. His book To the Young Writer
is a New York Public Library award winner for Best Books for Young
Adult readers. He is a member of the academic honor societies Phi
Kappa
Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta and Order
of Omega.
Public Lectures: He
teaches journalism at Franklin
College In Indiana. Occasionally he gives public
talks on hazing at other colleges. Nuwer's philanthropy
work is for HazingPrevention.org
and the Buffalo
State Hank Nuwer Hazing Collection for
scholars, students and journalists. He is a columnist for Stophazing.org. He
publishes a daily HazingPrevention
blog. He is a longtime advisory
board member of
Security on Campus.
Publications: Some
of his
shorter pieces on hazing appear in Times
of India, Fraternal Law, Human Behavior, American Legion, The
New York Times Sunday Magazine, Stophazing.org,
Harpers
and
Sports Illustrated for Kids. His scholarly research on hazing is
published in books such as Broken Pledges,
The Hazing Reader,
High
School
Hazing and Wrongs of Passage (main
publisher is Indiana University
Press). He co-wrote Chapter 14 "Hazing" in Violence
Goes to College. Hank Nuwer
has written longer stories numerous subjects such as science, sport and
the outdoors for
Outside Magazine, The Nation,
GQ, Inside Sports magazine, Indianapolis Monthly and Boston magazine,
as well as books on steroids, Jesse Owens, recruiting
in
sports, and professional writing. The Society
of Professional Journalists awarded him third-place
for Best Business Reporting for his investigation of the coal industry
in Indiana. On one of several participatory journalism
magazine
assignments, he played professional baseball in spring training.
Information coprighted by Hank Nuwer, Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana
Views in this column are Nuwer's or
attributed to those persons whose opinions are cited in various
articles quoted on this site.
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