Campus looking into text message alerts
By Christine Des Garennes
Saturday April 21, 2007
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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