Few students have opted for text alerts
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers low student registration for the university’s emergency text-alert system.
- The News-Letter reported that fewer than one-third of students had registered; according to Skrodzki, the total was 1,709 students.
- The article says the JHEA system can send emergency text messages with brief information and directions to university resources.
- The paper reported that officials used emails, work with administrators and Student Council leadership, and campus security events to encourage registration.
- The reporter writes that some students did not know how to register; Susan Boswell said, "The difficulty the deans are having is identifying the best way to get information to students," while Nathan Kirkpatrick said, "It's definitely worth signing up for but I just don't know how to,"
- The article adds that registration is voluntary because the university cannot require students to pay text-message costs; Edmund Skrodzki said, "The University cannot require students who own cell phones to pay the cost that their cellular service providers charge to receive a text message, and therefore cannot make registration mandatory."