Fraternity Foodie

Check out our latest podcast interviews (and food suggestions) from all over North America!

Dean Seneca: How should colleges and universities handle COVID-19 this fall? Featured

Check out episode # 53 with Dean Seneca. Dean is a recognized expert in health sciences and a global advocate for the under-served through community participation, building infrastructure in epidemiology, and leading through diplomatic communication. Dean worked as a Senior Health Scientist for the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) for over 18 years. He supports Tribal communities in their efforts to improve health on a daily basis, and has done extensive work specifically with the Seneca Nation of Indians. He is a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity, and a very close friend. We ask Dean why he chose the University at Buffalo as an undergraduate, what makes Sigma Pi so special, what he learned in working for the CDC for 18 years, the type of work he does as Executive Director at Seneca Scientific Solutions, whether people should be wearing masks at the grocery store, what the right approach would be for colleges and universities opening up this fall, how fraternity and sorority chapters can engage and recruit in this new normal, how COVID-19 is affecting American Indian Reservations versus the general US population, whether a second wave of Coronavirus is coming this fall, and his favorite restaurant....

Hank Nuwer: Hazing History in Athletics Featured

Welcome to our third special episode of Making Hazing History with Mike and Hank, and this episode is all about hazing in athletics. Our co-host each Sunday is Hank Nuwer, the Author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Wrongs of Passage, High School Hazing and The Hazing Reader, and retiring longtime Alpha Lambda Delta chapter adviser at Franklin College. Hank Nuwer discusses who was the first well-known athlete to die in a hazing incident, the significance of Nolte McElroy’s death at Texas, whether athletic hazing differs from, say, fraternity hazing or class hazing in some way, whether there any deaths in which male and female athletes played a part, the time when a judge made Hank work with the hazers instead of sending them to jail, how Hank actually reenacted Nick Haben’s death to understand it, whether any bystanders or the Western Illinois school employees could have saved Nick’s life, and other cases of athletic hazing we should know about. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_q3RfGZwUY

Claire Petrie: How can we network online and get professional development opportunities online now? Featured

Check out episode # 51 of Fraternity Foodie! We interview Claire Petrie, Talent Acquisition and HR Pro currently creating the talent acquisition vision, strategy and process at a company called Unifrax! We talk about why she chose the University at Buffalo for her undergraduate degree, why she loves to find the perfect match between people and companies, what Unifrax does, why social media is important in advancing your career, networking opportunities online, professional development opportunities online, personal branding on social media, social selling, how people can find new jobs right now, interviewing tips for online meetings such as Zoom, and Claire’s favorite places to eat in Buffalo. You’ll love Claire! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-AMEqyPwEc

Hank Nuwer: Class Hazing. Tackling the Unsolved Mystery of Henrietta Jackson’s Death. Featured

Welcome to the second installment of Making Hazing History with Mike & Hank. Today we are talking about first-year hazing taken to a dangerous extreme. Specifically, we are tackling the unsolved mystery of Henrietta Jackson’s death. Hank Nuwer discusses what is class hazing, examples of these types of tragedies, the particulars on the Henrietta Jackson death, how Mark Twain was connected to this story, and the last class hazing death in recent history. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHHNdNjxjAc