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Colleges weigh text messaging as a tool to warn students of danger. Loyola Marymount University Emergency Preparedness Program

While attending my son’s graduation (yea!) I learned more about the system that was being considered at Loyola Marymount University for emergency notification. This was a system that was also under consideration by Virgina Tech before the events on their campus. LMU was able to go into a rapid deployment mode and had a subset of the system fully implemented in 3 days.

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System enables rapid danger alerts

From NBC12 News

In the wake of last week’s shootings at Virginia Tech, colleges around the country are debating how to notify their students and staff in an emergency. New technology is giving them a tool to get the word out to thousands in a matter of minutes.

http://www.nbc12.com/news/tragedy/7165676.html

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I hope that every university administration implements a program as quickly as possible.

Russ

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Loyola Marymount University has committed significant resources toward our Emergency Preparedness Program, including the recent hire of a full-time Emergency Preparedness Manager. The health and safety of the LMU Community is our top priority.

For full inofrmation: http://www.lmu.edu/pagefactory.aspx?PageID=16045

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To raise the alarm, use cellphones?
Colleges weigh text messaging as a tool to warn students of danger, in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings.

By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

A gunman is potentially loose on campus for at least two hours as police scramble on their CB radios to find him. Yet students, 94 percent of whom carry cellphones, unsuspectingly don their backpacks and go to class.

Could technology – specifically, emergency text messages via cellphones – have saved some of the 33 lives lost last month at Virginia Tech?

Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0508/p03s01-ussc.html?s=hns

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