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Parents demanding text alerts from children’s colleges after massacres
- After the massacres at Northern Illinois University and Virginia Tech, parents have demanded they receive cell phone text alerts from their children’s colleges in case of emergency.
Text alerts to be used in school emergencies
- Text messages will soon alert people of emergencies in Carroll’s schools as the county becomes the latest to employ the system.
Classes unaffected by college threats
- Two Baltimore-area universities received anonymous threats within days of each other, prompting school officials to send students text alerts and hire extra police with bomb-sniffing dogs to guard the campuses.
- Two Baltimore-area universities received anonymous threats within days of each other, prompting school officials to send students text alerts and hire extra police with bomb-sniffing dogs to guard the campuses.
Security experts: Text-message alerts no ‘silver bullet’ for campus safety
- In a post-Virginia Tech world, colleges shouldn’t rely solely on text-message alerts as the “silver bullet” for notifying students of emergencies, security experts told government planners, university administrators and business executives Wednesday.
Text alert sign-up falls short of expectations
- Participation in the University of Maryland’s emergency text alert service is only half of what the official in charge of it had hoped for, despite a sign-up blitz last week.
Intruder prompts Notre Dame to activate text-message warning
- In the first test of new emergency-alert systems at Baltimore-area campuses, the College of Notre Dame activated its text messages this weekend to warn students about a man wanted for trying to abduct a student.
Tech tragedy boosts campus alert industry
- When Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage four months ago at Virginia Tech, he kick-started the industry of campus emergency-warning systems.