The Hazing Reader

This volume collects 15 classic or never-before-published contributions to understanding the culture of hazing. The collection, which includes contributions from such experts as Stephen Sweet, Michael Gordon, Walter Kimbrough, Lionel Tiger, and others, looks at hazing behavior, hazing in fraternal organizations (including sororities and traditionally black fraternities), military hazing, and hazing in athletics. There are also chapters on hazing and the law, hazing injuries, and hazing and gender. A final chapter discusses steps for transforming a culture of hazing.

Hank Nuwer is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Franklin College and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis. His books include Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking (IUP, 1999) and High School Hazing: When Rites Become Wrongs. He lives in Indianapolis.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: Exterminating the Frat Rats

xiii

Hank Nuwer

A Chronology of Hazing Events

xxv

1. Understanding Fraternity Hazing

1

(13)

Stephen Sweet

2. Males Courting Males

14

(5)

Lionel Tiger

3. Groupthink

19

(8)

Irving L. Janis

4. Cult-like Hazing

27

(24)

Hank Nuwer

5. Hazing and Alcohol in a College Fraternity

51

(55)

James C. Arnold

6. Pledging and Hazing in African-American Fraternities and sororities

106

(4)

D. Jason DeSousa, Michael V. W. Gordon, and Walter M. Kimbrough

7. Examining Violence in Black Fraternity Pledging

110

(20)

Ricky L. Jones

8. Troubled Times in a New England University's Fraternity System

130

(7)

Jonathan R. Farr

9. A Sorority Executive's Perspective on Hazing: A Conversation with Holiday Hart McKiernan

137

(4)

Conducted by Hank Nuwer

10. Military Hazing

141

(6)

Hank Nuwer

11. Rites of Passage and Group Bonding in the Canadian Airborne

147

(24)

Donna Winslow

12. Traumatic Injuries Caused by Hazing

171

(13)

Michelle A. Finkel, M.D.

13. A Carolina Soccer Initiation

184

(16)

Gregory Danielsen and Hank Nuwer

14. Hazing and Sport and the Law

200

(24)

R. Brian Crow and Scott R. Rosner

15. Institutional Liability and Hazing-Mainly Athletics-Related

224

(28)

R. Brian Crow and Scott R. Rosner

16. Initiating Change: Transforming a Hazing Culture

252

(23)

Susan VanDeventer Iverson and Elizabeth J. Allan

17. Hazing and Gender: Analyzing the Obvious

275

(20)

Elizabeth J. Allan

Appendix: Hazing Information Resources

295

(2)

References

297

(10)

Contributors

307

(4)

Index

311

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