The UMD Alerts System is a mass, urgent notification system, comprised of a variety of methods by which the University can notify students, faculty and staff of an active, major campus emergency: 1  Text messages (SMS) to mobile devices. 2  Feed to Alertus Beacons. 3  Early Warning Siren.
President Obama crashes wedding at La Jolla golf course and couple is ecstatic. President Obama was playing golf at Torrey Pines, where Brian and Stephanie Tobe were getting married. President Obama was playing golf at Torrey Pines, where Brian and Stephanie Tobe were getting married.
President Obama Celebrates Jazz at the White House. More ways to share... President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are celebrating International Jazz Day a day early with a concert at the White House. Borrowing a line from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie, who ran for president in 1964, Obama says he intends to turn the White House into the Blues House with Friday night's concert. Obama says he first obtained an appreciation of jazz when a father he barely knew came to visit him for about a month in Honolulu.