By Odin.Liela 2011-08-23 11:39:22
Are any of you guys on Palamecia? And good morning.
So the University here has a call system to give emergency messages to students quickly. Certain people call everyone with a last name A-D, others call everyone with a last name E-H, whatever and etc, and then an animated voice on the phone tells students the emergency. They put this into effect a couple years ago when a different university had a shooting that went on for a couple hours and they had no way to let all the students know who didn't know already.
So. For our safety, we got an emergency call around 6am to tell us that a hotel off-campus was being served a warrant by police. Not that it affects the safety of students on campus or is anyone's business... Then when we were just dozing back to sleep, we got another call to tell us that the police were gone from the hotel. You know, in case we wanted to go hang out in the lobby or something, idk. >.> Really.
There were two homicides (that I know of) here last night, which probably has something to do with this. But I'm still pretty sure that most Uni students don't just go hang out at random hotels on a Tuesday morning and if they did, the police were shoo them away til they were finished. The call system is supposed to be for emergencies! Sheesh.