{"id":24367,"date":"2023-03-29T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=24367"},"modified":"2023-03-29T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:36:00","slug":"how-to-stay-safe-on-a-college-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/how-to-stay-safe-on-a-college-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stay safe on a college campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/articles\/how-to-stay-safe-on-a-college-campus\">U.S. News and World Report<\/a> about campus safety, Furman University&#8217;s John Milby, chief of police, offered advice to readers. &#8220;Be aware of your surroundings,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t let somebody in your apartment if you don&#8217;t know who they are or trust them. That goes for on campus or off campus.&#8221; Milby also stressed the importance of being quick to report suspicious activity. &#8220;I&#8217;m surprised how often students will find out three days after the fact that they witnessed something that was really unsafe or suspicious,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they may not report it at all, or they&#8217;re slow in reporting it, which puts law enforcement at a disadvantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Chief of Police John Milby contributes to a U.S. News and World Report article about campus safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1944],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-24367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-u-s-news-and-world-report","tag-campus-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}