Hazing

Destroying Young Lives

Hank Nuwer

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780253032935
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Counseling

When does becoming part of the team go too far?

For decades, young men and women endured degrading and dangerous rituals in order to join sororities and fraternities while college administrators blindly accepted their consequences. In recent years, these practices have spilled over into the mainstream, polluting military organizations, sports teams, and even secondary schools. In Destroying Young Lives: Hazing in Schools and the Military, Hank Nuwer assembles an extraordinary cast of analysts to catalog the evolution of this dangerous practice, from the first hazing death at Cornell University in 1863 to present day tragedies. This hard-hitting compilation addresses the numerous, significant, and often overlooked impacts of hazing, including including sexual exploitation, mental distress, depression, and even suicide.

Destroying Young Lives is a compelling look at how universities, the military, and other social groups can learn from past mistakes and protect their members going forward.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Credits
• Introduction: The Perils of Hazing, a Few Thoughts on Forty Years of Writing about Hazing
• 1 Dead to Rites: The Chlorine Poisoning of Henrietta Jackson
• 2 Hazing in Fraternities and Sororities: A Primer
• 3 A Need for Transparency: Parents, Students Must Make Informed Decisions About Greek-Life Risks
• 4 Shame: The Hidden Harm of Hazing for Victims and Hazers
• 5 Sexual Hazing: A Wrongful Passage
• 6 Ill Met by Moonlight: The First Fraternity Hazing Death
• 7 Eliminating Band Hazing: What Must Be Done
• 8 Hazing and Gender: Lenses for Prevention
• 9 Listening to the Voices of the Hazed: An Examination of Race, Violence, and Black Fraternity Membership
• 10 Unspoken Sisterhood: Women in African American Sororities and Their Physical and Mental Ordeals—“Weeding the Good from the Bad”
• 11 Sexually Exploitive Athletic Hazing and Title IX in the Public School Locker Room: Warriors, Machismo, and Jockstraps
• 12 A Mother’s Story: I Lost My Child to Fraternity Hazing
• 13 How Alfred University Ended the Greek System to Become a Hazing Research Institution
• 14 How Schools May Have Facilitated and Operationalized Hazing: An Interview with Peter F. Lake
• 15 A Fraternity Model: Addressing Campus Alcohol Misuse and Abuse
• 16 A Realistic Approach to Public Relations for Fraternities in Crisis
• 17 A Sorority Hazing Hero Incurs the Wrath of Alums
• 18 How Reforms and Reformers Played a Role in Changing a Hazing Culture
• 19 Hazing Hides in Plain Sight: An Open Letter to Hazers from a Nationally Known Speaker
• 20 Hazing and University Ethics: The Need for Faculty Involvement and Guidance
• 21 Understanding Hazing in the Perilous World of Guyland: An Interview with Michael Kimmel
• 22 A Cold Case: How Did Joe Bisanz Die?
• 23 Women and a Feminine Leadership Style Can Defeat Hazing
• 24 The Purdue Tank Scrap
• 25 A Blueprint for Greek Reforms: How to Establish an Antihazing Task Force with Concrete “Good First Steps” to Change a Hazing Culture
• 26 Hazing and the Law and Litigation: What You Need to Know
• 27 Smokeouts and Smokescreens: Military Hazing
• Notes
• Index