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Oh really? Well add on a couple dozen good 'inexpensive' ideas and your tuition goes up a couple thousand.Most college students already have cell phones, anyway. I'm guessing most students won't carry around a spare cell phone just to help out the university.

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Most cellphones already have GPS built in and NORMALLY they are set to broadcast your signal to everyone. I had to go in and change it to 911 only - which is to say, the issue of opt-in/opt-out on gps tracking is a bigger issue than just at a university level.Sorry if that made little sense. My english is hating on me today.

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Yeah come on guys! Its only the loss of your privacy! Who cares if someone knows where you are and what you're doing every minute of every day!You can't be serious?

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Sounds like a reason for people to be even more irresponsible than before. Technology is great and all but this seems a little overboard. They always try to use security to cover up being able to track your movements and I highly doubt its fully disabled.This univeristy needs to screw all this stuff and just lower tuition costs.

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WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTHI agree with you. No GPS enabled phone. No Onstar in my vehicle. NOTHING that can be used to identify my location to such a small area.My school has telephone stations which you can pick up in an emergency. Sure, people can still get to you, but if you get to a phone station... which are pretty close, the police will be there in just two mins.

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as a 20 year old girl in college who usually hates the idea of being monitored, i have to say this is pretty cool. i would love to feel a little bit better (however false the security might be, with response times and all that.) about walking home from my campus job at night. at my university, security is really good about having a presence, so whether the police got there in time or not, i'm sure security would. also, being able to let one of my guy friends know where i was without them having to come walk me home would be nice on both me AND them.as far as the social aspect, that is pretty nice as well. it's also sort of creepy, but i guess that's just life now. o.O however, being able to find my friends when they can't hear their phones or are off-campus drinking and all that would be nice.but the convenience of that isn't worth the price, i think. i mostly like the safety aspect.

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I mean, I'm cynical myself, but come on-did any of you naysayers bother reading the background of the technology? They're simply modifying a tracking system that, as other pointed out, IS ALREADY ON ALMOST EVERY PHONE. And debate the efficacy all you want, but at least they're trying to do something about a serious problem. Jesus...talk about "damned if you do, damned if you don't."

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I work for a school system in Florida. We have bee using gps trackers on all of our busses. It has helped our parents feel much safer. I can't blame the Universities for at least trying to protect its kids. Job well done. Here are some other gps ideas.<a class="user" href="http://eyespysupply.com/gps-trackers--car--vehicle-tracking-devices.html&quot; rel="nofollow">http://eyespysupply.com/gps-trackers--car--vehicle ...</a>

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