Wondering what life at Georgetown would be like if the color-coded terrorist warning rises above Yellow? The university’s preparedness plan knows and will tell you, in an ominous yet understated way.

At Orange, not much happens besides tighter security. But at Red, the shit gets heavy. Everyone has to wear an ID card, campus visitors have to be signed in, and buildings are locked down to one entrance, and a 24-hour “Emergency Operations Center” opens up. Fortunately, we won’t probably won’t hit Red unless something big happens, like bombs going off everywhere or an Iranian person attending graduation.

Flickr photo from djwhelan used under a Creative Commons license

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