Discuss “Emergency Alert serves campus responsibly ”

In the last few years, the United States has been rocked by a number of enormous tragedies. Of these tragedies — especially Katrina and the Virginia Tech massacre — many deaths and injuries could have been prevented through better communication.

Just days after 32 people were killed at Virginia Tech, the safety of our own students was virtually ignored when a bomb scare on campus property went unannounced to the students.

Given that our university is as vulnerable to serious incident as any other university, we are glad the administration has considered the events like the massacre in Virginia, and acted on them. Seven days before the findings of the first official internal report on the shootings at Tech, the Carnegie Mellon Emergency...