Sometimes the headlines are deliberately misleading, other times they define an article well and then there are the times when it is difficult to imagine what the body of the piece is based on the bold print.

I was certainly intrigued when I read the following:

N.J. College Requires GOP Cell Phones

This was a must read for me as I had never heard of a GOP cell phone. Couple that with the fact that I could not imagine what college in the State of New Jersey would be installing this requirement and this was an instant click and read.

Here is what I found.

It was after 1 a.m. on a Sunday when college freshman Amanda Phillips arrived at the train station. She was nervous about walking alone in the dark to her dorm at Montclair State University.
So Phillips activated a GPS tracking device on her school-issued cell phone that would instantly alert campus police to her whereabouts if she didn’t turn it off in 20 minutes. After a five-minute walk, she safely reached her dorm room, locked the door behind her and turned off the timer.

“I think this is a great idea. It makes me feel a lot safer. And it’s not even that expensive,” said Phillips, an 18-year-old from Delaware.

Had she not turned the device off, an alarm would have sounded at the campus police station, and a computer screen would have displayed a dot with her location, along with her photo and other personal details.

Anything which provides an extra layer of security for these students is a great idea.

Too bad it wasn’t really a GOP cell phone. It would have been one of the most interesting stories tied to a political party in quite a while.