Montclair State is one of several universities to provide students with GPS locator service  

Montclair is one of the first schools in the United States to offer students a GPS tracking service—which, along with other security technology, is being adopted on more and more campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre last spring.

Students can use the timer or, in an emergency, activate the GPS technology to alert police instantly.

“Maybe they’re hiding and are hurt. Maybe they wouldn’t want to talk, because they’re hiding behind a desk and the gunman’s in the room. They’d have a better chance of being located,” said campus police Sgt. Paul Giardino.

So far, not many students are using the feature. The university, which has 13,000 undergraduates, said the timers get turned on only about five to 10 times a week.

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