Hazing Advisory Board
Hank Nuwer
Hank Nuwer is the author of four books on hazing, including "Broken Pledges," "High School Hazing," "The Hazing Reader," and "Wrongs of Passage." He is a Greek who pledged at Buffalo State College and who has for years maintained his alumni group's web site. He teaches journalism at Franklin College and IUPUI. He has lectured on hazing at more than 100 universities, including Dartmouth, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Order of Omega, a fraternal honorary, and the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Lambda Delta. Buffalo State College awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2006 for his work on hazing, and that school has dedicated a Library Special Collections unit to collecting scholarly materials on hazing for use by scholars and students.
Dr. Charles Eberly, Ph.D.
Charles Eberly's line of research is the American College Fraternity, with more than 35 presentations or publications to his credit. He was the first recipient of the BGSUGreek Award in 2002 from his Alma Mater, Bowling Green State University, for a lifetime of service to the college fraternity. He is Professor of Counseling and Student Development at Eastern Illinois University, where many of his students have completed master's theses on fraternity and sorority topics. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Gamma Sigma Alpha, and Order of Omega honorary societies, and a recipient of the Order of the Golden Heart from Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity. In 2005 he helped to found Oracle, The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity Advisors.
Dan Bureau
Dan Bureau earned a BA in English and Communications from the University of New Hampshire and a Master's in Higher Education Administration, Research and Policy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has served as the Student Activities Advisor for Fraternity and Sorority Life and Leadership at the University of New Mexico, and the Assistant Dean of Students for Fraternity and Sorority Life at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a doctoral student at Indiana University studying Higher Education and Student Affairs. He is a Client Services Project Assistant at the National Survey on Student Engagement and an active member of the Association of Fraternity Advisors, where he served as the 2004 President. He is also on the Executive Boards of Gamma Sigma Alpha and the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity. He is a facilitator for CAMPUSPEAK programs and a speaker on anti-hazing, fraternal relevancy and community building. In 2007, he was named an "Anti-Hazing Hero" at the third annual National Hazing Symposium.
Leslie Lanahan
Leslie Herrlinger Lanahan was born in Dayton, Ohio. She graduated from The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and attended Pitzer College, in Claremont, California. She worked as an Account Manager in advertising for The Marschalk Company and SSC&B, Inc. in New York City as well as Foote, Cone, Belding Inc. in San Francisco. She received a Design Degree from The New York School of Interior Design and started her own Interior Design business. With her husband, she founded The Gordie Foundation, an alcohol and hazing prevention foundation started in memory of her 18 year old son, Gordie Bailey, who died tragically in September, 2004, of alcohol poisoning, as a result of a college fraternity initiation ceremony in Boulder, Colorado. The mission of the Foundation is to provide today’s youth with the skills to navigate the dangers of alcohol and through education and promotion of self worth, prevent alcohol poisoning, binge drinking, and hazing.
Marilyn Monroe Fordham
Marilyn Monroe Fordham is the Liaison Chairman and Alcohol & Other Drug Liaison for the National Panhellenic Conference. She has been involved with the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant-funded programs for men's and women's fraternity members, has helped develop prevention programs for fraternity women, and frequently presents prevention programs on numerous campuses and at over 100 national and regional conferences. She serves on four higher education task forces and committees working on student alcohol and other substance abuse issues. She is the past International President of Delta Gamma Fraternity and a member of Order of Omega, Alpha Lambda Delta and Mortarboard. She is the recipient of the University of Idaho's Jim Lyle Award for outstanding service and volunteerism and its Alumni Service Award. A graduate of the University of Idaho in Business Administration, she has worked internationally with women's fraternities since 1979 and in the prevention field since 1988