DURHAM, N.H. (AP) – The University of New Hampshire will get a campus-wide warning system to help notify people if there’s an emergency.

An alumnus is donating the $120,000 system that would blare warnings and sirens across the campus if there were a crisis like the massacre that killed 32 at Virginia Tech. UNH had planned to install a $5,000 system, but John Olson donated the money to get the better system.

The alert would be audible for a mile radius and cover most of UNH’s campus.

Plans to install the air horn system were expedited after last week’s shootings in Virginia. Some have criticized university officials there for not adequately informing students of the danger following the first shooting.

UNH spokeswoman Kim Billings said that each college at UNH has a comprehensive emergency plan. She also said officials would typically use a blast e-mail and phone trees to inform students of possible dangers. The air horn would be to warn students around campus immediately of a possible threat.

“There’s no good that comes out of Virginia Tech, but one little glimmer is what we can learn from it,” she said.