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Additional Resources

Below is a list of resources, including websites, books, and articles, that provide further information on hazing definitions, research, policies, and prevention initiatives.

Websites:

Campuspeak. National Hazing Prevention Week
The National Hazing Prevention Week website contains numerous resources to help colleges and universities prepare anti-hazing programming during National Hazing Prevention Week, which was September 24-28, 2007.

Hazing at Cornell
One of the first comprehensive websites to explore hazing at the university level, the Hazing at Cornell site provides an overview of the issues, policies, and actions surrounding hazing. This site serves as an excellent benchmark for all post-secondary institutions when creating their own hazing prevention programs.

Hank Nuwer’s Unofficial Clearinghouse to Track Hazing Deaths and Incidents
Hank Nuwer’s website documents hazing-related incidents and deaths for a variety of populations, including college students, high school students, fraternity and sorority members, band members, in addition to international and occupational hazing. The site also includes a blog, hazing news, and other resources related to hazing.

Inside Hazing
Created and maintained by Dr. Susan Lipkins, the website Inside Hazing provides methods of prevention and intervention in hazing and explores the psychology of hazing in high schools, colleges, the military, and the workplace. The site also features educational information for use in anti-hazing initiatives among fraternities, sororities, teams, and other groups.

Stophazing.org
Stophazing.org contains ample resources for students, parents, teachers, lawmakers and other professionals to eliminate hazing in high schools, colleges, and the military. In addition, this site contains links to hazing news stories.

Outdoor Education/Ropes Course Centers:

The American Youth Foundation
Camp Merrowvista
Tuftonboro, NH

The Browne Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH

Hulbert Outdoor Center
Fairlee, VT

Leadership Innovations
Lee, MA

Project Adventure
Beverly, MA

Sargent Center for Outdoor Education
Boston University
Hancock, NH

Thompson Island Outward Bound
Boston, MA

Teambuilding:

Business Balls
Free team building games and ideas

Teambuilding, Inc.
Information on teambuilding strategies, philosophy and basic how-to.

Anti-hazing policies at peer institutions:

Harvard joins a number of top schools across the country with its initiatives to prevent hazing. Check out anti-hazing policies in place at other institutions.

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Johns Hopkins University

Stanford University

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

Washington University in St. Louis

Advocacy Groups:

C.H.U.C.K. (Committee to Halt Useless College Killings) c/o Eileen Stevens, P.O. Box 188, Sayville, New York 11782 ● (516) 567-1130

C.H.A.D. (Cease Hazing Activities and Deaths) c/o Rita Saucier, P.O. Box 850955, Mobile, Alabama 36685 ● (334) 343-2119

Books:

Finley, P. and Finley, L. (2006). The sports industry’s war on athletes. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.*

Guynn, K.L. and Aquila, F.D. (2004). Hazing in High Schools: Causes and Consequences. Bloomington, Indiana: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.*

Johnson, J. and Holman, M. (Eds.) (2004). Making the team: Inside the world of sport initiations and hazing. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc.*

Jones, R.L. (2004). Black haze: Violence, sacrifice, and manhood in black greek-letter fraternities. Albany: State University of New York Press.*

Kimbrough, W.M. (2003). Black greek 101: The culture, customs, and challenges of black fraternities and sororities. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.*

Land, B. (2004). Goat: A memoir. New York: Random House.*

Lipkins, S. (2006) Preventing hazing: How parents, teachers, and coaches can stop the violence, harassment, and humiliation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.*

Nuwer, H. (1990). Broken pledges: The deadly rite of hazing. Atlanta: Longstreet Press.

Nuwer, H. (Ed.). (2004). The hazing reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.*

Nuwer, H. (2001). Wrongs of passage: fraternities, sororities, hazing and binge drinking. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.*

* denotes books that are available in Harvard’s libraries.

Scholarly Articles:

Allan, E.J. and Madden, M.M. (2006).Examining and transforming campus hazing cultures.
Retrieved from http://www.hazingstudy.org/publications/
national_hazing_study_pilot_web.pdf.

Boglioli, L. R., & Taff, M. L. (1995). Death by fraternity hazing. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, 16(1), 42-44.

Campo, S., Poulos, G., and Sipple, J.W. (2005). Prevalence and profiling: Hazing among college students and points of intervention. American Journal of Health Behavior, 29(2), 137-149.

Carr, J.L. et al. (2005). American College Health Association campus violence white paper. Baltimore, MD: American College Health Association.

Cokley, K., Miller, K., Cunningham, D., Motoike, J., King, A. & Awad, G. (2001). Developing an instrument to assess college students' attitudes toward pledging and hazing in Greek letter organizations. College Student Journal, 35(3), 451-456.

de Los Reyes, G. and Rich, P. (2003). Housing students: Fraternities and residential colleges. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 585, 118-123.

Drout, C.E. and Corsoso, C.L. (2003). Attitudes toward fraternity hazing among fraternity members, sorority members, and non-greek students. Social Behavior and Personality, 31(6), 535-544.

Ellsworth, C. (2004). Definitions of hazing: Differences among selected student organizations. Digital Repository of the University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1577.

Finkel, M.A. (2002). Traumatic injuries caused by hazing practices. AJEM, 20(3), 228-233.

Govan, D.A. (2000-2001). “Hazing out” the membership intake process in sororities and fraternities: Preserving the integrity of the pledge process versus addressing hazing liability. Rutgers Law Review,53, 679-714.

Hollman, B.B. (2002). Hazing: Hidden campus crime. New Directions for Student Services, 99, 11-23.

Hoover, N.C. (1999). Initiation rites and athletics: A national survey of NCAA sports teams. Retrieved from http://www.alfred.edu/sports_hazing/.

Keating et al. (2005). Going to college and unpacking hazing: A functional approach to decrypting hazing practices among undergraduates. Group dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 9(2), 104-126.

Lodewijkx, H., & Syroit, J. (1997). Severity of initiation revisited: Does severity of initiation increase attractiveness in real groups? European Journal of Social Psychology, 27(3), 275-300.

Lodewijkx, H., & Syroit, J. (2001). Affiliation during naturalistic severe and mild initiations: Some further evidence against the severity-attraction hypothesis. Current Research in Social Psychology, 6(7), 90-107.

Sweet, S. (1999). Understanding fraternity hazing: Insights from symbolic interactionist theory. Journal of College Student Development, 40(4):355-364.

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