I believe the point of the emergency texts would be to use during an emergency. This morning was not an emergency by any means. The 57 Bus was still running, the BUS was still running. The most anyone should have arrived late to any final is 15 minutes, because you can just hop in a cab at the worst situation. Does paying extra cash suck? Yeah, but get to your final and take it rather than making up excuses and taking up time on BU Today by writing a post because you didn't study sufficiently or because you woke up 10 minutes before your final on the off chance that the T on a good day would be there at your convenience. This was not a student emergency, and I am almost certainly that the Bomb scare was handled as rationally as possible as well. The emergency alert system is only for when the physical safety of the entire BU Community is at risk. If they start using it because of something that was quickly assessed as a bomb scare or from a car accident at Packards Corner, everyone will just consider it "the boy crying wolf." When you do get a text message from BU on your phone, you will know that something bad IS happening. Let us all hope to whoever it is your pray to, that this will never happen on our relatively quiet and safe campus.