Campus Safety: Many Schools Making Changes
Filed in archive Campus Life by Greg Cruey on October 07, 2007
Ball State University has announced plans to test their new emergency text-messaging service. About 3,700 students, faculty, and staff have signed up to participate in the test, according to the Star Press. Nearby Purdue University
did a similar test last month and they estimate that their e-mails reached close to 60,000 people within six minutes whereas the text-messaging service reached about 5,000 people within seven minutes.
In Charlottesville, Va., about 150 miles from the site of the April massacre on Virginia Tech's campus, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors is working to implement recommendations from a state panel convened by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. Among the recommendations that UVA has already begun to put in place:
- Keycard locks on classroom doors
- Retrofitting building entrance and hallway doors
so that they cannot be chained shut - an emergency text-messaging system
- a campus-wide public address system
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