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Colleges find new ways to alert students (Orange County Register)

MISSION VIEJO â?? It was a Monday morning, and officials at Saddleback College had just tested their new emergency notification system, purchased in the wake of the April 16 campus massacre at Virginia Tech.

“We were joking that we hoped we would never have to use it,” said Saddleback President Rich McCullough about the new system, which instantly turns every phone on campus into a warning loudspeaker.