Table of Contents

Prologue
Selected Listing of Key Persons and Fraternal Organizations
Glossary
Acknowledgments
1. The Tradition
2. Greekthink
3. Alcohol Misuse
4. A Weed in the Garden of Academe
5. Greek Traditions and Tragedies
6. Sororities
7. The Law and Hazing
8. Violence in Historically African American Greek Groups
9. Strategies: What Can Be Done?

Appendix A: A Chronology of Deaths among College Students as a Result of
Hazing, Fraternal Alcohol Syndrome, Pledging, Fraternity-Related Accidents, and Other Miscellaneous Occurrences

Appendix B: Where to Find Help and Information
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Promotional Information

Describes the epidemic of hazing and binge drinking on college campuses and recommends how to stop it.

About the Author

Hank Nuwer is author of Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing: When Rights Become Wrongs, The Legend of Jesse Owens, and To the Young Writer and has published short articles and longer essays on hazing for American Legion Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harper's Magazine, Nuvo Newsweekly, and Human Behavior. He teaches reporting classes as an adjunct professor for the Indiana University School of Journalism, Indianapolis (IUPUI), and he has lectured on the topics of hazing and binge drinking at the University of Michigan, University of Oregon, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.

Reviews

"A grim... expose by hazing expert Nuwer of the continuing yet largely unacknowledged crisis of death and injury among fraternity and sorority pledges... Nuwer is authoritative and insightful on this subject... this makes clear that a good number of easily led youngsters incur grave risks in the supposedly supportive, 'fun' environment of collegiate Greek life, and for its sustained examination of these rarely questioned traditions, Nuwer's work is invaluable." - Kirkus Reviews "Extremely well researched, with lots of interviews with victims of hazing... " - Library Journal

"A grim... expose by hazing expert Nuwer of the continuing yet largely unacknowledged crisis of death and injury among fraternity and sorority pledges... Nuwer is authoritative and insightful on this subject... this makes clear that a good number of easily led youngsters incur grave risks in the supposedly supportive, 'fun' environment of collegiate Greek life, and for its sustained examination of these rarely questioned traditions, Nuwer's work is invaluable." - Kirkus Reviews "Extremely well researched, with lots of interviews with victims of hazing... " - Library Journal