Hazing Workshop

The Gettysburg College athletics department sponsored a continuing education workshop for the coaching staff and student-athletes about the dangers of hazing amongst athletic teams. Dr. Brian Crow, associate professor of sport management at Slippery Rock University, led two programs that took place in the College Chapel on Thursday evening, October 12, 2006.  He conducted a presentation for the staff beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by the presentation for all student-athletes at 8:00 p.m. 

Crow, who is in his fourth year teaching sport marketing and sport communication at the undergraduate level and sport marketing and sport budget and finance in the graduate program at Slippery Rock, is presently the president-elect for the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM). He is a co-author of two textbooks: Foundations of Sport Management (with Andy Gillentine) and Profiles of Sport Industry Professionals: The People Who Make the Games Happen (with Matthew Robinson, Dennis Phillips and Mary Hums). He is also the author or co-author of three textbook chapters and two law review articles on hazing in athletics. He has made more than 45 international, national and regional presentations of his research.

This was the second formal program the athletics department sponsored in regard to hazing. Earlier this year the coaching staff participated in a hazing audio conference titled Sports Hazing/Club Hazing: Beyond Greeks.