Spring Break
New emergency alert system utilizes cell text messages
Students, faculty and staff can sign up for this alert service
Anneke Tucker
Issue date: 10/16/08 Section: News
"It costs $1.65 per student account, and is covered by the university," Rogers said. "We have already paid for 26,000 accounts; all you have to do is be involved."
The only minor inconvenience to students would be a quarterly test message sent to the entire system to make sure it is working properly.
"We are excited and anxious to get students involved," Rogers said.
The emergency alert system is also very dependable. "We say it has the five nines: 99.999 percent of the time it is up and running," Rogers said. The .001 percent accounts for the five minutes per year that the system performs self-maintenance, during which another system will act as a backup.
"It's dependable, it won't break, it's well-staffed and it's well-maintained," Rogers said.
Just because the alert system is being implemented, though, doesn't mean security and emergency officials expect the sky to fall any time soon.
"No one wants to ever have to answer the question, 'why weren't you prepared for this?'" Simmons said. "We just want to keep people safe."
Anneke Tucker, staff writer
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
The only minor inconvenience to students would be a quarterly test message sent to the entire system to make sure it is working properly.
"We are excited and anxious to get students involved," Rogers said.
The emergency alert system is also very dependable. "We say it has the five nines: 99.999 percent of the time it is up and running," Rogers said. The .001 percent accounts for the five minutes per year that the system performs self-maintenance, during which another system will act as a backup.
"It's dependable, it won't break, it's well-staffed and it's well-maintained," Rogers said.
Just because the alert system is being implemented, though, doesn't mean security and emergency officials expect the sky to fall any time soon.
"No one wants to ever have to answer the question, 'why weren't you prepared for this?'" Simmons said. "We just want to keep people safe."
Anneke Tucker, staff writer
news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231
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