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...Although Message Me has seen a 60 percent involvement rate in the Harvard community, college officials have not made sign-up mandatory. Likewise, despite the good response from the Boston population, the city did not make participation in their own safety programs mandatory. On the other hand, Boston University (BU) first started its alert program, also through Omnilert, as a requirement before registration in the fall of 2007. “We felt that was the most important thing—to be sure that we had people as part of the system,” Peter Fiedler, vice president...
...senior Tara Schoen said. “We had unforced turnovers and our shots were not falling.” It was anybody’s game in the beginning of the first half. Neither team scored for the first seven minutes of play. But in the eighth minute BU junior Sarah Dalton quick-sticked a ball past Harvard sophomore goalie Katherine Martino. After that the Terriers took control the offensive game. In the next ten minutes BU scored five unanswered goals. With 12 minutes left Harvard got on the board after an unassisted goal from senior Natalie Curtis...
Boston University (BU), which uses a different company’s alert service, boasts a 94 percent enrollment rate because signing up for the service is a mandatory part of the students’ registration process. BU began using the service at its Charles River campus last September—one month after Harvard adopted the program—following the success of the alerts at its medical school...
...don’t register your cellphone number, you don’t register for next semester,” said Peter Fiedler, vice president for administrative services at BU. “This has had an amazing effect...
...other six percent of BU students do not have cell phones or cannot receive text messages, according to Fiedler...