The Hazing Reader

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Exterminating the Frat Rats by Hank NuwerA Chronology of Hazing Events1. Understanding Fraternity Hazing by Stephen Sweet2. Males Courting Males by Lionel Tiger3. Groupthink by Irving L. Janis4. Cult-Like Hazing by Hank Nuwer5. Hazing and Related Drinking in an Addictive Fraternity Chapter by James C. Arnold6. Pledging and Hazing in African-American Fraternities and Sororities by D. Jason DeSousa, Michael V. W. Gordon, and Walter M. Kimbrough7. Examining Violence in Black Fraternity Pledging by Ricky L. Jones8. Troubled Times in a Fraternity System by Jonathan R. Farr9. A Sorority Executive's Perspective on Hazing: A Conversation with Holly Hart McKiernan10. Military Hazing by Hank Nuwer11. Rites of Passage and Group Bonding in the Canadian Airborne by Donna Winslow12. Traumatic Injuries Caused by Hazing by Michelle A. Finkel, M.D.13. A Carolina Soccer Initiation by Gregory Danielson14. Hazing and Sports and the Law by R. Brian Crow and Scott R. Rosner15. Institutional Liability and Hazing--Mainly Athletics-Related by R. Brian Crow and Scott R. Rosner16. Transforming a Hazing Culture by Elizabeth J. Allan and Susan V. Iverson17. Hazing and Gender by Elizabeth J. AllanAppendix: Hazing Resource InformationBibliographyContributorsIndex

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."

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