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...program, which was introduced at the University in the wake of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, came under scrutiny for failing to deliver messages properly—or at all—during the Harvard shooting. Text messages were cut short and about two percent of the 14,000 subscribers in the program were not reached during the incident, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mailed statement at the time...
...Folks go in, they use the system, they practice sending a message, sending a message to a specific group,” said Susan Walsh, the acting Chief Information Officer at the University Information Systems. She added that students who choose not to receive emergency text messages can now also be alerted to emergencies through e-mails, Twitter, Facebook “fan pages,” and RSS feeds...
Undergraduate Council member George Hayward ’11 noted that the delivery of some text messages during the Kirkland shooting had been delayed—possibly because alerts had been sent to all subscribers at once, overloading the system...
Included in the collection is a 1961 edition of the famous “Rabbit, Run”, edited for a 1964 reprint, in which the ever-meticulous Updike literally cut and pasted revised paragraphs into the margins and tucked them into the text. The Archive also offers proof that Updike was just another Harvard student, scrawling a less well-known moniker for the greatest English playwright—“Willie the Shake”—onto a copy of “The Tempest” for Professor Henry Levin’s Shakespeare course...
...companies will be opening in the U.S. soon, predicted Horton, who holds an MBA from Yale. Horton said his company charges the same rates as in stores or lower and gets its cut from participating companies. He also said cell phone numbers would only be used to send the text with the gift code and would not be used for advertising...