Email or text messages and automated phone calls are being utilized by many colleges and universities to warn students of an emergency situation, specifically weather alerts or a shooter on campus. A Kentucky university is taking it a step further, using air raid-type sirens loud enough to override the ear buds of personal music players.

Unveiled on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the deadly shootings that took place at Virginia Tech, the system will involve mounting sirens on 50-foot poles at four locations around Murray State University, the Associated Press reports. Read more here.