H A Z I NG 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41N 42L H A ZI NG Destroying Young Lives Edited by Hank Nuwer Indiana University Press 01 02 03 Tis book is a publication of 04 05 Indiana University Press 06 Ofce of Scholarly Publishing 07 Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street 08 Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA 09 10 iupress.indiana.edu 11 © 2018 by Hank Nuwer 12 All rights reserved 13 14 No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or 15 by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, 16 without permission in writing from the publisher. 17 18 ∞ Te paper used in this publication meets the minimum 19 requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI 20 Z39.48-1992. 21 22 Manufactured in the United States of America 23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 24 25 Names: Nuwer, Hank, editor. 26 Title: Hazing : destroying young lives / edited by Hank Nuwer. 27 Description: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references. 28 Identifers: LCCN 2017051097 (print) | LCCN 2017057864 (ebook) | 29 ISBN 9780253030252 (e-book) | ISBN 9780253029386 (hardback : 30 alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253030047 (pbk. : alk. paper) 31 Subjects: LCSH: Hazing—United States. | College students—United States—Conduct of life. | Greek letter societies—United States. | 32 Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.) 33 Classifcation: LCC LA229 (ebook) | LCC LA229 .H39 2018 (print) | 34 DDC 371.5/80973—dc23 35 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017051097 36 1 2 3 4 5 23 22 21 20 19 18 37 38 39 40 41N 42L In memory of Harrison Kowiak and all others who have perished due to hazing. To all the Hank Nuwer Anti-Hazing Hero Award r ecipients recognized by HazingPrevention.Org. To my wife, Gosia Wroblewska-Nuwer, for her u nfagging support of my research on hazing. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41N 42L And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and w herever human beings endure sufering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. —Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech [Te hazers’] code of honor exalts perjury as a virtue. —Julian Hawthorne, “Te Crime of Hazing,” Munsey’s Magazine, March 1905 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41N 42L Contents Acknowledgments xi Credits xiii Introduction: Te Perils of Hazing, a Few Toughts on Forty Years of Writing about Hazing / Hank Nuwer 1 1 Dead to Rites: Te Chlorine Poisoning of Henrietta Jackson / Hank Nuwer 5 2 Hazing in Fraternities and Sororities: A Primer / Hank Nuwer 24 3 A Need for Transparency: Parents, Students Must Make Informed Decisions About Greek-Life Risks / Douglas Fierberg and Chloe Neely 42 4 Shame: Te Hidden Harm of Hazing for Victims and Hazers / Tracy Maxwell 50 5 Sexual Hazing: A Wrongful Passage / Norm Pollard 57 6 Ill Met by Moonlight: Te First Fraternity Hazing Death / Hank Nuwer 72 7 Eliminating Band Hazing: What Must Be Done / Malinda Matney 88 8 Hazing and Gender: Lenses for Prevention / Elizabeth J. Allan and Morgan B. Kinney 100 9 Listening to the Voices of the Hazed: An Examination of Race, Violence, and Black Fraternity Membership / Ashley Stone 116 10 Unspoken Sisterhood: Women in African American Sororities and Teir Physical and Mental Ordeals—“Weeding the Good from the Bad” / Gina Lee-Olukoya 138 11 Sexually Exploitive Athletic Hazing and Title IX in the Public School Locker Room: Warriors, Machismo, and Jockstraps / Susan P. Stuart 154