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Hank Nuwer

"Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days."

Source : Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press

Hank Nuwer

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“Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.”
“Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.”

Source : "A Wise Man’s View of Washington Still Rings True" by Diane Dimond, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2013.
“It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.”
“Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.”
“I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.”
“We are whirling through endless space, with and inconceivable speed, all around everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then, with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expand our minds, strengthens our hopes and and fills our hearts with supreme delight.”
“We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.”
“Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees.”

Source : 'Eton Boating Song' in 'Eton Scrap Book' (1865). E. Parker 'Floreat' (1923) p. 109

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