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Based on a sample of articles and transcripts found largely through a Lexis-Nexis search, the press first covered the occurrence of high school hazing in 1981. Since then, and particularly beginning in 1997, coverage of such events has increased. Experts say hazing

A Lexis-Nexis search of major newspapers on the topic high school hazing returns only 11 stories from January 1, 1980, to December 31,1990, with the majority of them appearing in 1988 through 1990. The first story, a brief incident report, appeared in the New York Times on December 4, 1981 in an article titled “Coaches Ousted Over Hazing Rite”. According to the Lexis-Nexis sample, the first television mention of high school hazing occurred on January 1, 1991, on “CBS This Morning”. (It is appropriate to mention that Lexis-Nexis did not begin posting transcripts until the mid-1980s.) From 1991 until 1997, news stories trickled to the public via newspapers, radio and television news. Radio and television mentions were generally brief incident reports that gave the most basic details of the alleged hazing incident. Radio reports were often no more than a couple of sentences. Beginning in 1997, the number

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