Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Blog #7

KIMBROUGH, WALTER. "Black Greek Deathwatch." Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 26.26 (2010): 21-. Print. The author ‘s work perfectly relates to my research question. The author provides stories of death after death of Alpha phi Alpha brothers and asks rhetorical question of will we stop the cycle? The author reaches out to administrators and legal systems to control illegal hazing strictly so the innocent deaths of pledges especially in black fraternities can stop. The author provides a supporting viewpoint to my thesis.
Nuwer, Hank. Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Print. The author reveals stories of those killed and injured by fraternity and sorority hazing rituals such as mental and physical abuse, physical torture, beating, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and other harmful activities. This book portrays many interviews of families of those who died due to hazing related activities and provides evidence for my thesis of the harmful consequences of hazing

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