Western Washington University plans to conduct a campus-wide test of its emergency steam whistle “Big Ole” and notification system, known as Western Alert, on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The purpose of the test is to ensure that members of the university community can be contacted during a campus emergency.
Steam whistle testing will begin at 9:45 a.m. and could last for several minutes. Shortly after the first steam whistle tests on Nov. 18, a test message will be sent out to students, faculty, and staff via campus e-mail and cell phone text messaging. Test messages will also be posted on the University’s homepage at http://www.wwu.edu and the Emergency Information Web site at http://emergency.wwu.edu/.
Western students, faculty and staff who have not yet registered to receive Western Alerts via text message are asked to update their personal information via the Web4u application at Web4U. Parents of students also can sign up to receive the alerts via Western Alert....
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