The Media Innovation Center, Student Government Association, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Black Studies Center, First-Year Experience and the School of Arts and Sciences have joined together to sponsor a screening of "Hazing" which includes a session with noted director Byron Hurt.
This event is open to all on campus. The evening begins with a reception followed by a screening of the film and a panel discussion and Q&A with the filmmaker and Old Westbury student leaders.
Hurt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. His acclaimed documentaries "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes and Soul Food Junkies" premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens.
"Hazing" is his latest film, which offers a deeply personal look inside the culture, tradition and secrecy of hazing rituals in fraternity and sororities, sports teams, marching bands, the military and beyond.