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Wrongs of passage : fraternities, sororities, hazing, and binge drinking

Title
Wrongs of passage : fraternities, sororities, hazing, and binge drinking / Hank Nuwer.
Author
Nuwer, Hank.
Publication
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1999.

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TextUse in library LJ51 .N89 1999Off-site

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Description
xxx, 317 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Explores the problems of hazing and binge drinking at fraternities and sororities on American college campuses, telling the stories of some of the young people who have been seriously injured or died as a result of such behaviors; and offers a list of recommendations for reform.
Subject
  • Greek letter societies > United States
  • Hazing > United States
  • College students > Alcohol use > United States
  • College students > United States > Conduct of life
  • College students > Alcohol use
  • College students > Conduct of life
  • Greek letter societies
  • Hazing
  • Alkoholmissbrauch
  • Studentenverbindung
  • Schikane
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-306) and index.
Contents
The tradition -- Greekthink -- Alcohol misuse -- A weed in the garden of academe -- Greek traditions and tragedies -- Sororities -- The law and hazing -- Violence in historically African American Greek groups -- Strategies: what can be done?
ISBN
  • 0253335965
  • 9780253335968
LCCN
99014864
OCLC
  • ocm41049433
  • 41049433
  • SCSB-8925620
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library