Other Potential Uses for the NU Emergency Notification System

Ever since Northwestern started calling us more frequently than biddies desiring a triple-x throw down dial 1-800-MIX-A-LOT, we've been trying to come up with other uses of Northwestern's Emergency Notification System to utilize when the system isn't busy notifying students and parents every time that the Fiji brothers spike the water supply with acid. Possible ideas are as follows: Regrettable Hookup Notification If only there was somebody besides your wingwoman frantically gesticulating in the corner of the Keg to warn you that the dude currently grinding into your junk looks like a cross between Joakim Noah and a Ringwraith. But with the Regrettable Hookup Notification system sending you voicemails every five minutes to alert you that your potential hookup is a 5.5 or worse, your second cousin, or a mechanical engineer, you'll never shamefully hookup with a Sherman Ave writer again!

Open Bar Bulletin One of the few text-message forewarnings you'll actually heed. North campus has been overrun with zombies after an electrical fire in Tech released them from captivity? Eh, text me when the moat is fixed. Free booze all night? I WANT TO GO TO THERE AND DRINK UNTIL I HAVE ALL THE ALKEHOLZ AND DANCE TO ALL THE ONE DIRECTIONZ AND OMIGOD I LUUUUUUVE WHISKEY SOURZZZ!!!

Racial Controversy Alarm Sample University-authored alert messages include, "University Police report there is a racial controversy brewing in the basement of SAE," "EMERGENCY UPDATE: Officials are currently working to prevent painful reminders of this nation's sensitive racial history from surfacing in some of the most uncomfortable ways," and "Please, for the love of God, can we just cool it with the blackface?"

Hot Cookie Bar Release This communique serves multiple functions, both alerting undergraduates of the sexual release that is waiting for them in Hinman while simultaneously warning of the impending stampede of Freshman already lining up to indulge in sweet half-baked orgasmy goodness.

CA-dar It may not take Freshmen too long to recalibrate their gaydars to Northwestern, but in the meantime their CA-dars will be woefully underdeveloped. For all those who haven't already studied up, Northwestern should send out text messages, emails, and automated phone calls to all students and their parents whenever a CA suspects that the a cappella renditions of The Script's "Breakeven" and the smell of Burnett's escaping from underneath your door is grounds to disrupt your Wednesday night viewing of National Treasure 2 party.

Power Trip Alert The University needs to protect the physical and spiritual welfare of its students, which has been placed in grave danger by the number of p-trips rumbling through the northern suburbs. Expect emergency notifications whenever a Freshman correctly navigates his or her way through Tech, somebody accidentally takes Sherman Ave seriously, or every time Mayor Tisdahl wakes up in the morning. As if that would save you...