AP Quotes Allan in Article on Hazing Deaths
The Associated Press quoted Elizabeth Allan, a professor of higher education at the University of Maine, in the article, “Similar hazing deaths show difficulty in stopping behavior.” Allan also is president of StopHazing, an organization that aims to promote safe school, campus and organizational climates through research, information sharing and the development of data-driven strategies for hazing prevention. “It’s so tragic and so much hazing is normalized so when it escalates to where someone dies everyone takes notice, but there are many events that tend to lead up to that point that have been overlooked,” Allan said. “We’re trying through research to disrupt that chain of events.” Allan has enlisted eight universities as part of an ongoing three-year study to evaluate hazing prevention techniques, according to the article. Preliminary findings are expected in June. U-T San Diego and The Indiana Gazette carried the AP report.