UW-Stevens Point has more than half of campus population signed up for text alert system
4/29/2013
Wisconsin Watch.org
By Rory Linnane
Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

On March 5, University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Eric Cardinal was working the late shift at a Shell station near campus when he read a text alert from the university warning of a suspected shooter on the loose: “Police looking for Male/Black wearing red & black flannel shirt headed west out of University Houses.”
 
Then Cardinal saw a man in his store duck, as a police car rolled through the parking lot.
 
 
 

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