Current News
August’s enewsletter highlights the challenges of the back-to-school season, and lays out the five steps to effective bystander intervention from Step UP!
July’s enewsletter focuses on 4th of July safety, and also showcases Gordie Center Director Susie Bruce’s participation as a Faculty Fellow at HazingPrevention.Org’s Hazing Prevention Institute.
June’s enewsletter honored Gordie’s aunt, Holly Lanahan, and discussed the dangers of “backpacking.”
May’s enewsletter discusses safety around graduation and special celebrations, as well as customizing GORDIEstore products and peer educator transitions.
April’s enewsletter highlights upcoming hazing prevention conferences and partners, as well as our GivingToHoosDay participation.
There are many articles about hazing every day, and this one by a student at Cornell spoke to us, as we hope it did to his classmates.
March's enewsletter focuses on the re-release of HAZE and the #PUSH parent meeting in February.
A new study shows that parents giving teens alcohol in the home does not protect the teens from the dangers of alcohol, and may make them more likely to drink and suffer alcohol-related harms.
Gordie's mother and step-father did an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer ahead of the first-ever parents of hazing victims meeting in February 2018.
This article features videos from the first #PUSH meeting (#ParentsUnited2StopHazing), in which Gordie's mother and step-father participated.
TIME Magazine article about the first #ParentsUnited2StopHazing meeting in February 2018.
Andrew Coffey's parents speak for the first time about the loss of their son to hazing at FSU in 2017.
The Darien Library in Darien, CT, hosted a screening of HAZE for parents and students, followed by a panel discussion. "Parents showed gratitude for the screening of Haze for providing vital education that they did not know they needed."
The Gordie Center updated the documentary film HAZE and released the updated version on what would have been Gordie's 32nd birthday.
February's enewsletter focuses on Gordie's birthday, and how the Gordie Center plans to honor his day with the re-release of an updated version of our documenary film about Gordie's story, HAZE.
2017 was a difficult year that saw 4 hazing-related death in the United States. The January enewsletter looks ahead to 2018, and how we can work toward our shared mission of ending hazing and alcohol overdose together.
The December enewsletter focuses on our fall print publication, and the reception for Gordie Center supporters held in November.
The November enewsletter focuses on how to support friends and family in recovery over the holidays, and includes updates on our HAZE update project and our fall print publication!
The October enewsletter focuses on safe Halloween celebrations, and highlights our APPLE Training Institutes for NCAA student-athletes.
September’s enewsletter highlights National Recovery Month, the Gordie Center’s APPLE Training Institutes, and National Hazing Prevention Week.