{"id":38328,"date":"2025-06-03T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38328"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:43:04","slug":"rod-kelley-06-comments-on-how-furman-u-is-addressing-hazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rod-kelley-06-comments-on-how-furman-u-is-addressing-hazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Kelley &#8217;06 comments on how Furman U. is addressing hazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman is the only private university in South Carolina to make hazing information public. Furman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/rod-kelley\/\">Rod Kelley<\/a>, 2006 alumnus and assistant dean of student conduct, told <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.hazinginfo.org\/blog\/state_of_hazing_south_carolina\">HazingInfo.org<\/a> the reporting reflects the university&#8217;s overarching goal of transparency and cross-campus collaboration toward addressing hazing. He said rituals and tradition &#8220;can get twisted very quickly and lead to power imbalances\u201d within student groups, which, in turn, could lead to dangerous initiation rites. &#8220;It&#8217;s about changing the culture,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>HazingInfo.org said Furman&#8217;s position on hazing transparency has the university well-positioned to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.hazinginfo.org\/blog\/new-federal-law-brings-hazing-out-of-the-shadows\">a new federal law<\/a> that will require all U.S. colleges and universities to publicly disclose hazing incidents on their websites by this December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the blog for HazingInfo.org, Furman&#8217;s Rod Kelley explains why Furman is well-positioned to implement a new law requiring universities to publicly disclose hazing incidents on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3427,6,27],"tags":[1067,3429,3428,106],"class_list":["post-38328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-hazinginfo-org","category-in-the-news","category-student-life","tag-hazing","tag-initiation-rites","tag-student-conduct","tag-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328","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=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38381,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions\/38381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}