For months, students have questioned the consistency of the University’s emergency notification policies.

The University clarified its emergency warning procedures Friday, responding to confusion surrounding its Sept. 6 sounding of campus sirens because of a tornado warning.

After UNC students learned that Alert Carolina failed to immediately notify students that a woman was raped close to campus in the early morning of Feb. 9, their response was vocal and critical.

The 27-year-old woman who reported being raped near Franklin Street Thursday has asked Chapel Hill Police not to pursue the investigation, according to a Tuesday press release.

The investigation into a rape reported near campus at roughly 2 a.m. Thursday morning has turned up few leads and has left some questioning whether the campus should have been alerted to a potential threat.

When confronted with the most serious of campus emergencies, UNC students and faculty can now turn to a bright yellow sign for help.

Just months after UNC was forced to review its emergency response protocol, East Carolina University now finds itself in a similar predicament — albeit for a different reason.

Less than a week after revising its emergency alert system, the University sounded its sirens for the first time in campus history for something that was not a drill.

A recent arrest for an alleged on-campus rape has highlighted difficulties the University faces when deciding whether it should notify students of a crime.

A “suspicious device” discovered in an Appalachian State University campus building Monday was not a bomb, say campus and town police officials.

University officials are standing by their decision to include the name of a student in an Alert Carolina email after he was arrested for sexual battery. Alert Carolina sent a campuswide email Sept. 12, requesting information about an incident that occurred on the P2P Express early the previous morning.

University officials are hoping revisions to the Alert Carolina emergency response system will restore students’ trust in campus safety.

The new emergency notification plan, which was released Thursday, will be split up into three alert categories, said Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp.

UNC-CH is not the only school reviewing its campus alert system.
Officials at UNC-Wilmington are also investigating their alert system after it failed to notify students of a July 29 shooting.
Investigators are working to issue a full report detailing the source of the failure by the end of this week, said Cindy Lawson, a spokeswoman for UNC-W in an email.

In the early hours of April 4, Kate Matthews left her door in Morrison Residence Hall unlocked. Just a few floors away, some of her fellow students were being robbed at gunpoint.

On the morning of April 4, two reported crimes would shake the community’s faith in Alert Carolina. Only one would prove to be true. Just after midnight, five students were robbed at gunpoint inside a suite in Morrison Residence Hall, police said. And a freshman falsely reported that a man severely burned him on the wrist at 3 a.m.

Students recommended that social media play a larger role in the University’s emergency response policy at a meeting Thursday of the Executive Group, a collection of 10 high-ranking administrators charged with reviewing Alert Carolina.

Inside a dimly lit room at the Department of Public Safety station, dispatchers stare into the glowing panorama of computer screens.

More than 48 hours after an armed robbery in Morrison Residence Hall, police have yet to arrest one of the two men involved. And as the search and investigation continues, University officials said Tuesday that siren and mass-text notification systems were not used because police deemed the incident as isolated to the victims — and found that the 26-year- old suspect, Michael DeAngelo Williamson, had already left the campus area.

There will be a gang of shooters on campus Wednesday at the Outdoor Education Center. Luckily, they will all be actors. EnviroSafe Consulting and Investigations Inc. is conducting a practice exercise without real weapons to put UNC’s emergency response plans to the test.

When a student was stabbed outside a fraternity house following Halloween festivities, an e-mail sent on several listservs left many parents more informed than their children.