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Nuwer consulted with a professor in psychology, Margaret Thaler Singer, to get a better understanding of the characteristics of cults to relate those behaviors with fraternity hazing. Nuwer believes that hazing, along with a cult, is a " 'systematic' manipulation and coercion to effect 'psychological and social influence ' ". [14]
Finkel quoted from Hank Nuwer's book Wrongs of Passage, which counted 56 hazing deaths between 1970 and 1999. [68] In November 2005, controversy arose over a video showing Royal Marines fighting naked and intoxicated as part of a hazing ritual. The fight culminated with one soldier receiving a kick to the face, rendering him unconscious. [69]
The dangerous – and sometimes deadly – consequences of hazing are prevalent at US universities, placing their sports programs in particular under growing scrutiny.
There has been about one university hazing death each year from 1969 to 2021, making hazing deaths less common than lightning strike deaths. [2] [3] Only 200 university hazing deaths have occurred since 1838, with the most deaths being 40 between 2007 and 2017. [4] Alcohol poisoning is the biggest cause of death. [4]
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W.I.N.E. Psi Phi (W ΨΦ) was an African American collegiate fraternity. [1]It was established at Howard University in 1959 as a non-exclusive alternative to the traditional black Greek letter organizations.
Maxwell Gruver died in a hazing ritual while pledging at the Louisiana State University chapter of Phi Delta Theta.He reportedly had condiments thrown at him while reciting the Greek alphabet and answering questions about the fraternity, and was forced to drink 190 proof alcohol if he made mistakes. [1]
In 1980, Steve Call, a pledge of Delta Kappa Phi at the University of Massachusetts Lowell died after falling ill as the result of an intense program of hazing-related calisthenics he had been required to perform. [4] The character of the fraternity has significantly differed from school to school.