Schools continue to have an obligation to issue "timely warnings" to the campus community if they believe a reported crime poses an ongoing threat to students and employees on campus. Unlike the crime log, this reporting is not limited to a police or security department and should be made in less than two business days. These warnings, however, are restricted to the list of crimes that schools must report in their annual statistics, and the criteria used by a school for determining what poses a threat can be very subjective.
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In the Pitt student news paper, everyday on the backside of the front page was a police blotter, this was where they listed every rime that happened within the 24 hours of the paper being printed. Most of the stuff was stupid college pranks-there was this very informal competition between fraternity houses where they would all try and out do each other to get into the paper-but for the most part it kept the students up to date on what was happening and what was going on around campus. In a school the size of Pitt, this was a great tool to get the students aware of certain actions going on around campus. It seemed like most of the students at Pitt read the paper, so pretty much the whole campus was aware. Now a school the size of Seton Hill with a news paper that does not come out as frequently there probably isn't much of a need for this-word of mouth is probably quicker anyways in spreading the word.