Campus looking into text message alerts

The University of Illinois plans to launch a notification system that could alert students and employees of emergencies through text messages and automated phone calls.

Long before Seung-Hui Cho murdered 32 Virginia Tech students, the UI had requested bids from companies to establish a system that could send thousands of alerts instantaneously to students, faculty and staff.

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