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College students slow to embrace text alerts. Texting to be used in University of Montana alert system

February 28, 2008View for printing

The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cellphones.

But while hundreds of campuses have adopted text alerts, most students are not embracing the system — even in an age when they consider their mobile phones indispensable.

By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireles ... lerts_N.htm

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Texting to be used in University of Montana alert system http://matr.net/article-27864.html
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