The Virginia Tech shootings on April 16 have become a lightning rod for campus IT managers nationwide who are being asked to find new ways, some wirelessly, to communicate quickly with large and dispersed student bodies in an emergency. "That unfortunate disaster has had a big effect on all colleges," said Jay Dominick, CIO at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. "I've been in constant meetings since it happened to talk about ways we can better communicate on campus in such situations."

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