UW-Madison Continues To Update Campus Security Measures
University To Roll Out Text Messaging System
Updated: 8:54 pm CST February 15, 2008
MADISON, Wis. -- Before Thursday's shooting at Northern Illinois University, leaders at University of Wisconsin-Madison continued to add security measures on campus.
VIDEO: Watch The ReportThe latest security measure is a campus-wide text messaging system that officials said will be launched this spring. University officials said they are making sure the system will work before allowing more than 60,000 students, faculty and staff to sign up for it.University officials also met Friday with both law enforcement and campus groups to help make sure tragedies like the one a NIU and other campuses don't happen at UW-Madison."There have been five or six different incidents on campuses, so we are concerned about that. We have university groups that meet weekly that talk about students and faculty and staff that we may be concerned about to kind of be forecasters for events such like this," said Associate Dean of Students Argyle Wade.One of the new programs UW-Madison is using this year to ensure that students are aware of emergency situations on campus is by sending alerts on the popular social network Facebook.The university is also offering resources in the wake of the NIU shooting.
VIDEO: Watch The ReportThe latest security measure is a campus-wide text messaging system that officials said will be launched this spring. University officials said they are making sure the system will work before allowing more than 60,000 students, faculty and staff to sign up for it.University officials also met Friday with both law enforcement and campus groups to help make sure tragedies like the one a NIU and other campuses don't happen at UW-Madison."There have been five or six different incidents on campuses, so we are concerned about that. We have university groups that meet weekly that talk about students and faculty and staff that we may be concerned about to kind of be forecasters for events such like this," said Associate Dean of Students Argyle Wade.One of the new programs UW-Madison is using this year to ensure that students are aware of emergency situations on campus is by sending alerts on the popular social network Facebook.The university is also offering resources in the wake of the NIU shooting. Copyright 2008 by Channel 3000. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
