Oregon State University boosts emergency communications

From The Corvallis Gazette-Times: Oregon State University has installed emergency telephones in 120 classrooms on the Corvallis campus to make access to dispatchers easier during campus emergencies. Anyone who picks up a phone will immediately be connected to a campus dispatcher who will assess the situation and send officers from either the Oregon State Police station or the University Department of Public Safety to the scene. The phones are another addition to campus security measures, which include 14 blue emergency phones at outdoor locations, yellow emergency phones in each residence hall and phones in every elevator on campus. These phones also immediately connect with a dispatcher.