2008 Woodie Awards
SRU's emergency standards cast in new light
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Opinion
Likewise, the efforts by the university to reach out to students concerning their own safety were also visible when administrators revealed their own hazard mitigation plan. Though such a plan may never even have to be used, attempting to involve the campus community proves that a policy of openness is what all parties involved seem to be aiming for.
Admittedly, the way some of these measures have been implemented is far from ideal, as is the case in administering the hazard mitigation plan survey via an e-mail that appeared to most students to be nothing more than another junk message shilling another sexual enhancement pill or get-rich-quick scheme. But regardless of their success, such measures were and are in place to help prevent something catastrophic from occurring, or to at least limit the results of such a problem.
This transparency, this sharing of information, might have even been enough to save the lives of more than two dozen students on Monday.
But it is clear, at the very least, that our university is getting it.
Admittedly, the way some of these measures have been implemented is far from ideal, as is the case in administering the hazard mitigation plan survey via an e-mail that appeared to most students to be nothing more than another junk message shilling another sexual enhancement pill or get-rich-quick scheme. But regardless of their success, such measures were and are in place to help prevent something catastrophic from occurring, or to at least limit the results of such a problem.
This transparency, this sharing of information, might have even been enough to save the lives of more than two dozen students on Monday.
But it is clear, at the very least, that our university is getting it.
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