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Campus Files

Weed in the Garden of Academe

Campus Files

Audacy

Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Half of all college students and 73% of social fraternity members experience hazing. As it turns out, hazing has a long and deadly history in the United States and we know about this history in large part because of the hard work of one man, Hank Nuwer. For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine playing bangers from them 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunt break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your

0:23.2

phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org

0:29.4

Greek life is a cornerstone of the American college experience.

0:40.3

Each year, nearly 750,000 students pled fraternities and sororities.

0:47.3

And whether or not you've joined one yourself, you've probably heard about hazing. It's become deeply embedded in campus culture,

0:58.0

depicted in countless films and TV shows as a rite of passage. According to the most

1:03.2

comprehensive study to date, 73% of students in Greek life experience some form of hazing.

1:11.0

So where did it all begin?

1:13.3

The roots of hazing go much deeper than you might think, stretching all the way back to colonial

1:18.3

America.

1:19.5

And much of what we know about that history comes from one man.

1:23.5

Hank Neuer. I'm Margo Gray, this week on Campus Files, Hank Neuer, and the Weed in the Garden

1:34.3

of Academe.

1:39.3

I had gotten classic comic books about Frank Buck.

1:45.9

He was a bring him back alive explorer and adventurer who stocked the zoos with what he had.

1:53.7

That's Hank Neuer.

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