National Coverage of Researchers’ Role on Anti-Hazing Committee
Media outlets around the country, including the Kansas City Star, reported that UMaine education professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden have been named Thursday to a newly formed anti-hazing committee at Florida A&M University, which had a hazing incident last fall which led to the death of a student band member. Allan and Madden are nationally recognized hazing researchers who with co-authored a pivotal 2008 report on hazing. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an Associated Press story on the announcement as did the Miami Herald.
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