He also won third place for the column in 2022 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Nuwer was named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists columnist of the year in 2021 for his “After Darke” column in the Early Bird. Nuwer, former columnist for the Greenville (Ohio)Early Bird, finished a stint as managing editor of the Celina Daily Standard to accept a new position as managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska. He is married to Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer of Warsaw, Poland and Fairbanks, Alaska. His new book is Hazing: Destroying Young Lives from Indiana University Press. He has written articles or columns on hazing for the Sunday Times of India, Toronto Globe & Mail, Harper's Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Journalist Hank Nuwer is the Alaska author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader. Members can’t wear anything showing their affiliation, and the fraternity can’t return to campus before 2011. University officials say the fraternity’s national office has suspended the group from campus because of the incident. Both he and his attorney declined any comment Monday. So now, facing big medical bills because of his injuries, Miller is suing the group, and his case will go in front of a jury in July.
Some people might discount the hazing incident, saying it’s a part of Greek life.īut Miller’s suit points out the Montgomery Municipal court convicted several members for hazing in this case.īut they won’t face jail time because hazing is a misdemeanor under Alabama law. Phi Beta Sigma executive director Marco McMillian declined a phone interview but but said the fraternity ‘vehemently opposes any form of hazing,’ and the groups website backs that up. The beatings got so bad, Miller needed emergency medical help during the last two weeks.Īll of those actions run counter to the fraternity’s national charter. Miller was kicked, beaten with a paddle and telephone books, slapped, thrown against a wall, cursed to his face, jabbed in the kidneys and degraded repeatedly. Miller’s lawsuit says for 67 days over a period of three months, members beat, assaulted, a humiliated him on several occasions. It’s one of the last because of a scandal involving several members who hazed one of their own pledge brothers.
The university quad is one of the few places you’ll see the blue and white of Phi Beta Sigma on Alabama State’s campus. Alabama State University Student Sues Over Fraternity Hazing CaseĪn Alabama State University student will soon get his day in court against a group he once wanted to call his brothers.Ī former pledge named Patrick Miller is suing Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, saying after joined, several members carried out a ten week hazing campaign that included beatings and humiliation and ended with trouble for his marriage.
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