In a recent email, VU’s Chief Information Officer Carmin Schnarr confirmed there are 1,360 subscribers to E-text. That is about 27 percent of the student population. However, if officials can’t make a successful attempt in getting students signed up for E-text, at least sending information about the Swine Flu outbreak via email will work. Every student on VU Campus has an email account in some form or another There is no reason why important information can’t be sent directly to students.
Currently, the Swine Flu has hit close to home-yes residents of Indiana are affected by the highly contagious form of influenza caused by a filterable virus first isolated in swine. Whether you want to admit it or not, you must take precautions to prevent yourself from catching the virus. Not only must you take responsibility, VU must take precautions as well. If you are a resident on campus, you are more likely subjected to germs and viruses that can range from common colds, influenza and even STDs.
Second year students are more aware of the E-text system than first year students. This text message system was concocted to let the student body know about emergencies on campus.
Due to the lack of information, rumors have been swirling around campus that two students have the Swine Flu. Fortunately, this is untrue and and the two students who supposedly have Swine Flu actually have type A Influenza and have been treated. Students may have known this information for themselves if a school wide email or E-text was sent out instead of receiving it ear to ear from peers.
If you are an E-text subscriber, where you informed of this information? More than likely, no. All VU students have a MyVU account and they didn’t receive the information either.
We must decide on what we can do about the important information the school seems to never give. If you are paying tuition, you have the right to at least know what is going on around campus even if you get the information sent via email or through a text message. School officials are always telling the student body to communicate for successful endeavors in their academic careers but (school officials) are not practicing what they have preached to us.
As young adults, communication is the key to any successful relationship. These relationships can range from corporate to family, private endeavors among others. So why is it when VU officials create a plan to communicate with the study body about issues going around on campus both parties become lackadaisical? Faculty and staff members are more aware of information VU officials want the campus to know as a whole versus the student body who pay to be students on campus. Unfortunately, students get the hard end of the stick because the information is never sent to us.
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