On Tuesday, the Auburn police received a report of a robbery at Comer Hall and the suspect was considered to be armed.
I received word of this from my supervisor at the main library, where I work. When I later checked the email on my phone, I learned of the robbery from This Week @ AU. The incident occurred at 12:36pm. The email was sent at 1:40pm.
Hours have passed since the robbery was reported. As I write this letter, I have not yet received an AU Alert. Comer Hall is directly across the street from the catacomb of stacks that is RBD, an excellent place to hide if you're avoiding someone. As a student worker at the library and as a student in general, I would have liked to have been made immediately aware of a gunman on campus. Regardless of whether or not he was running away from campus or straight up the hill to RBD, an AU Alert should have been sent out to students.
AU Alert is well-known around Auburn for being a joke. And one day someone is going to get killed because of it.
Alexander Roberson
senior, political science
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