Offering a text messaging emergency alert system has become the norm, though not all systems are created equally:
Police responded to a bomb threat at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill on Sunday evening, but it took a bit longer for students
signed up for UNC's text messaging system to find out about the scare.
The
slow response has left Illinois students wondering about the quality of
the new University emergency text messaging system, Illini-Alert, which
will be tested 10 a.m. today, said Todd Short, director of the
University's office of campus emergency planning.
...
The University of Illinois employs a text messaging system similar to
UNC's, but Short said text messaging is just one of nine systems that
would be used to alert students to an emergency on the University
campus.
"One thing everybody needs to keep in mind about
emergency notification systems is that you need more than one," Short
said, adding that not everyone has a cell phone with text messaging
capabilities.
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