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...ready for this. According to its website, the University Operations Center manages the Harvard University Emergency Notification System, a “high speed notification system” to alert people of emergencies. To complement that, several e-mails in the last year have encouraged us to sign up for text-message alerts from the Harvard University Emergency Management Plan, supposedly to “facilitate rapid and effective communication should there be an extreme emergency on campus.” And, to top it all off, we have the Harvard University Police Department community-advisory e-mails, for crimes...
...await furt [sic]”. An hour later, a third SMS took a different approach—speculation: “HUPD believes assailants have left the area and says that it is safe to resume normal activities.” Needless to say, that half-baked sign of reassurance did not calm many. But at least it was not a cut-off warning...
...investigation of its response to Bermudez's bullying complaints and brought in a school-safety expert to review the district's anti-bullying system. DeKalb County uses the Anti-Defamation League's No Place for Hate program, which integrates lessons about diversity into the school curriculum and makes students sign a pledge of respect. But ADL regional director Bill Nigut says the anti-hate program does not involve teacher and student training about inappropriate behavior and is not designed to protect students from harm. (Read about teen suicide pills...
...Pelosi has taken pains to centralize the power of the Speaker's office. Members can't take trips abroad, get on a committee or even sign out a room for a meeting without her permission. But that kind of omnipotent power works only when members are confident it will be exercised under control. Despite her missteps, Pelosi has been able to run the most unified caucus in half a century. But if she wants to keep it unified - and keep running it - she might need to stick to her own playbook...
Still, Sadr said, there is reason for hope. "The fact that dozens of women have registered for the last several rounds of the presidential elections is in itself a good sign. It has shown its impact already in the fact that the candidates talk about giving Cabinet positions to women...