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By Tony Astran

Hank Nuwer, distinguished alumnus from the Class of ’68, and Fraser Drew, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor emeritus of English, will sign copies of their new book, One Long, Wild Conservation: Selected Letters Between a Buffalo State Professor and His Student, a Writer, on Saturday, May 2, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 134, the library director’s conference room. The event is part of the 11th annual Student Research and Creativity Fall Forum.

One Long, Wild Conservation is a compilation of Nuwer and Drew’s correspondence over many years. The book is published by E. H. Butler Library and the Monroe Fordham Regional History Center.

Drew was the first Buffalo State professor to receive the SUNY Distinguished Teaching Award, in 1973. He helped Nuwer, a first-generation college student, find his voice as a writer and continued to be a mentor years after graduation.

Nuwer is an author, journalist, professor and nationally recognized authority on hazing and binge drinking among high school and college students. He has appeared on CBS, CNN, ESPN, and NBC Nightly News. He has also been interviewed by reporters for USA Today, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other national and international publications.

Buffalo State honored Nuwer with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1999 and the SUNY Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2006. Also in 1999, Nuwer established a special collection in the E. H. Butler Library Archives in honor of Drew. It includes the only collection in the world devoted to scholarship on hazing. The collection also contains dozens of books signed by their authors, including William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead.