The hazing reader / edited by Hank Nuwer. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004. - xxvii, 314 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.

Introduction: Exterminating the Frat Rats / Hank Nuwer. A Chronology of Hazing Events. 1. Understanding Fraternity Hazing / Stephen Sweet -- 2. Males Courting Males / Lionel Tiger -- 3. Groupthink / Irving L. Janis -- 4. Cult-like Hazing / Hank Nuwer -- 5. Hazing and Alcohol in a College Fraternity / James C. Arnold -- 6. Pledging and Hazing in African-American Fraternities and Sororities / D. Jason DeSousa, Michael V. W. Gordon, and Walter M. Kimbrough -- 7. Examining Violence in Black Fraternity Pledging / Ricky L. Jones -- 8. Troubled Times in a New England University's Fraternity System / Jonathan R. Farr -- 9. A Sorority Executive's Perspective on Hazing: A Conversation with Holiday Hart McKiernan -- 10. Military Hazing / Hank Nuwer -- 11. Rites of Passage and Group Bonding in the Canadian Airborne / Donna Winslow -- 12. Traumatic Injuries Caused by Hazing / Michelle A. Finkel, M.D. -- 13. A Carolina Soccer Initiation / Gregory Danielson and Hank Nuwer -- 14. Hazing and Sport and the Law / R. Brian Crow and Scott R. Rosner -- 15. Institutional Liability and Hazing--Mainly Athletics-Related / R. Brian Crow and Scott R. Rosner -- 16. Initiating Change: Transforming a Hazing Culture / Susan Van Deventer Iverson and Elizabeth J. Allan -- 17. Hazing and Gender: Analyzing the Obvious / Elizabeth J. Allan. Appendix: Hazing Information Resources.

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Hazing--United States.
College students--Conduct of life.--United States
Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.)
Greek letter societies--United States.

LA229 / .H32 2004

378.1/98/55