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Hazing

January 29, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

The #SVYALit Hangout on Hazing – and a hazing book giveaway!

Yesterday we had a great discussion with authors Eric Devine (Press Play), Anthony Breznican (Brutal Youth) and Joshua Cohen (Leverage) about their books and the topic of hazing/bullying. If you missed that conversation, you can watch below, or for you podcast fans you can “press play” and listen to it as a podcast. Great news! […]

January 19, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Bearing Witness to Violence, a guest post by author Eric Devine

Recently I was at a school in Harlem, giving my standard presentation of how I became an author and what my work is about, and I found myself at the section on Press Play, which many of the kids had read, and I was nervous to speak about the story’s roots. There, before me, sat […]

January 12, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Breaking Tradition: BRUTAL YOUTH author Anthony Breznican on the fight against hazing

“Don’t get your ass kicked … Don’t get your ass kicked … Don’t get your ass kicked…” Walking into my first day of high school, that was the one thought playing over and over again through my head, like a skipping record. I was 13 years old, about to turn 14 in a few weeks, […]

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Take 5: Hazing

October 16, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Earlier this month it was revealed that the football program at Sayreville in New Jersey was suspended due to allegations that the team was engaging in horrific acts of hazing that included sexually abusing their team mates. Hazing asks – forces, requires – people to do embarrassing or dangerous acts in order for them to […]

Initiation Secrets: Press Play and a look at hazing rituals, a guest post by author Eric Devine

October 10, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

What are you willing to do to belong to a group? That’s what hazing is, being asked to do certain things in order to be admitted into a special group of people like a team, a club, or a sorority or fraternity. Often the things people are asked to do to prove they are worthy […]

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