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Harvard launched a campus-wide text message alert system last month for students, faculty, and staff that enables administrators to send messages to participants’ cell phones in case of emergency...
...Schools will get this text messaging system and put it on their Web site and think just everyone is going to sign up, when schools should just do a better job promoting the service,” Crum said...
Some students have expressed concerns about divulging their cell phone number and receiving excessive text messages from the school, but Kinchla said the system would only be used in emergencies...
According to Wrinn, any use of the text message system would involve members of the Crisis Management Team, which is chaired by the Provost and is at the highest level in Harvard’s management structure...
...phones were usually placed in a closet or drawer and very rarely seen again until move-out.” Asked whether the removal of the room phones might pose a hazard in case of emergency, Nelson referenced the new campus alert system to be orchestrated this year via text message. Her e-mail to The Crimson also added that her office was “working with Financial Aid to ensure that any student who, for financial reasons, does not have access to a cell phone can get one to use as a replacement to the red phone...