Mars Hill College, near Asheville, N.C., has beefed up its security procedures that now includes an emergency notification system. Plans for the system began after the Virginia Tech massacre more than a year ago where a student killed 32 people and then himself.

A university administrator calls the new system “multipronged.” It includes brief cell phone text and email messages. Additionally, there will be sirens that will use three different signals depending on the emergency. Students will be trained in the signals’ meanings, said the administrator. “This is something we hope we’ll never use,” the school official said.

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