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Hank Nuwer is best known for his four young adult and adult books on the topic of hazing in society—including High School Hazing. Hank Nuwer is a writer and social critic whose specialty is the topic of hazing as an international human rights abuse issue and USA high school and campus safety issue. 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 of Yale University. He teaches journalism at Franklin College In Indiana but speaks on hazing at schools such as Oregon, Kenyon College, Maine, Toronto, Cornell, Chico State, Dartmouth, Michigan and Stetson. He also speaks on the art of nonfiction storytelling at writer conferences such as the Ball State Midwest Writers Conference. 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 hazing blog at hanknuwer.com/blog. He is a longtime advisory board member of Security on Campus. Nuwer also has written To the Young Writer, a book for young adults on the business of writing as seen through the eyes of such well-known authors as Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of Shiloh; Angelo Pizzo, the screenwriter of Hoosiers, and multicultural author Toyomi Gibson. His book To the Young Writer is a New York Public Library 2002 award winner for Best Books for Young Adult readers. He more recently completed a coming-of-age historical Y/A novel about two Basque brothers from Spain who moved to Nevada in 1897 as sheepherders and experienced adventures with an Australian sheepdog named Lazarus. Other books for youngsters include a biography of Jesse Owens and books on football, baseball, sports scandals, steroids, and recruiting in sports. His writing hero growing up was author Jim Kjelgaard, author of Stormy, Big Red and Trailing Trouble. Other writers who met with him and influenced him as a young man were Robert Laxalt and Kurt Vonnegut. He holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Buffalo State College, his alma mater, and his manuscripts are part of the Hank Nuwer Collection in the BSC Library. He attended graduate school in New Mexico (master's) and took additional classes at the University of Nevada. As a magazine writer, he loves participatory journalism. He played baseball for Manager Felipe Alou in spring training one year for a Montreal Expos' minor league team. He also has ridden a rodeo bull and recently went skydiving and for a spin at top speed in a stockcar as a passenger. He is at work on biography of Kurt Vonnegut and fifth book on hazing. His journalism has appeared in Harper's, Outside, Fraternal Law, The Nation, Toronto Globe & Mail, Montreal Standard and Boston Magazine. 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. A former faculty member at Ball State University where he was nominated by the institution for a CASE U.S. Professor of the Year award, he became an elected member of 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. He is a member of the academic honor societies Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta (he advises the Franklin College chapter) and Order of Omega. A former member of College Media Advisers, he received an "Honor Roll" award for his work as a magazine adviser. He also attended a workshop at the Poynter Institute as a fellow by winning a national teaching competition for professors of journalistic writing. He resides in central Indiana and Tok, Alaska. His hobbies are flyfishing, horseback riding, hiking, weightlifting, collecting postage stamps with authors on them, and tropical fish. |
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The Hazing Reader Recent and classic research on the culture of hazing. Despite numerous highly publicized incidents and widespread calls for reform, hazing continues to plague many of the nation's institutions. In this volume, noted hazing researcher Hank Nuwer presents 15 classic or never-before-published essays that can help all of us, parent and professional alike, better understand the culture of hazing. The collection, which includes contributions from such experts as Michael Gordon, Walter Kimbrough, Stephen Sweet, and Lionel Tiger, looks at hazing behavior in fraternal organizations (including sororities and traditionally black fraternities), high school, the military, and sports. There are also chapters on hazing and the law, hazing injuries, and hazing and gender. Lastly, the book lays out steps for transforming a culture of hazing and offers suggestions for further reading. |
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To theYoungWriter: A concise, practical, and accessible guide for young writers contemplating making a living with their creative writing skills. The people interviewed include screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, journalist Pat O’Driscoll, children’s poet Rebecca Dotlich, fiction writer Toyomi Igus, photojournalist Max Aguilera-Hellweg, advertising copy writer David Young, and music critic Alanna Nash, among others. The book was cited after publication by the New York Public Library as one of its best books for young adults. |
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Wrongs of Passage:Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge-Drinking Well known author Hank Nuwer (Broken Pledges), in a hard-hitting investigation of hazing and binge drinking in Greek fraternities and sororities, recounts the breakdown of common sense, civility, and leadership in American college fraternal life. Nuwer’s books on hazing try to end this abuse of human rights the way Sinclair Lewis’s The Jungle attempted to end abuses in the meatpacking industry. What forces young men and women to accept inhuman, degrading rituals in order to belong to a social club, sorority, or fraternity? Are they the same forces that have made college binge drinking a national epidemic? Why do college administrators and Greek fraternities and sororities continue to allow practices that frequently lead to death or permanent physical and psychological damage? Why are black fraternities more prone to violent rites of passage than their white counterparts? After an in-depth look at the problem, Nuwer offers a detailed final chapter, with a list of strategies for society in general, parents, college administrators, fraternities, and the police for combatting these demeaning and dangerous practices. |
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High SchoolHazing:WhenRitesBecome Wrongs High School Hazing is a book for young adults that tackles not only the challenge for high school boys and girls in how to fight off would-be hazers, but it also offers a cautionary tale of Nick Haben who died in his sleep after an alcohol-heavy rookie initiation at Western Illinois University. |
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Legend of Jesse Owens Jesse Owens gained enduring fame by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin at a time America needed a hero to inspire the nation while Adolph Hitler was building his military empire. Owens found it very difficult to adjust to life after athletics and was taken advantage of by unscrupulous promoters. All too human, he made many bad decisions, but his resolve to become a better man in the end made him a hero worth emulating by young adults of all nations. The story of his bonding with an older coach in high school is particularly inspiring, as is Jesse’s courageous fight for life as a sickly child growing up in
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Broken Pledges Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing takes readers deep into the heart of fraternities, sororities, the military and secret societies to explore the ritual of hazing in this pioneering book often cited as the book that inspired well-known researchers such as Elizabeth Allan to become a hazing activist and to start Stophazing.org. The book uses the attempt of Eileen Stevens to help reform social organizations, not end them, after the death of her son Chuck at
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