When severe weather strikes the Delaware Valley, University employees and students have several options to find out if there are late openings, early closings or cancellations at the University.

Information will be available from:

* local radio and TV stations (see list);

* student voice-mailboxes;

* Channel 9 on the UDTV cable system;

* the University's main phone number, 831-2000;

* UD1-HENS, under the listing of the day's events; and

* the World Wide Web at UDaily, the University's daily information web page at [http://www.udel.edu/udaily]and the Announcements page at [https://www. mis3. udel.edu/servlet/ announcements/].

Each department also will be contacted by Human Resources using a telephone tree, if the closing takes place during normal working hours.

Members of the campus community are asked to not call the Department of Public Safety so that telephone lines there can remain open for emergency calls.

According to Vice President Maxine Colm, administration, the University's policy is to remain open whenever possible during extreme weather conditions.

If no formal announcement of closing, late opening or early dismissal is made, employees who decide for personal reasons not to report or to leave early must take vacation time or leave without pay.

Employees in essential positions are required to report to work during extreme weather conditions. These employees will be designated by their directors in Dining Services, Facilities Management, Residential and Conference Facilities, Student Health Services, Public Safety and Information Technologies.

For more information on the extreme weather policy, employees should contact their supervisors.

KYW-TV, Channel 3, in Philadelphia, is the only television station that will broadcast snow closings.

Radio stations in the Wilmington/Newark vicinity advised of emergency closing bulletins by the University include:

WVUD-91.3 FM, campus;

WSTW-93.7 FM, Wilmington;

WJBR-99.5 FM Wilmington;

KYW-1060 AM, Philadelphia; WDEL-1150 AM, Wilmington;

WNRK-1260 AM, Newark;

WJBR-1290 AM, Wilmington; and

WILM-1450 AM, Wilmington.

In southern Delaware and adjacent areas in Maryland, the following radio stations are notified:

WSCL-89.5 FM, Salisbury, Md.;

WYUS-93.0 FM, Milford;

WZBH-93.5 FM, Georgetown;

WGMD-92.7 FM, Rehoboth Beach;

WDSD-92.9 FM, Dover;

WRDX-94.7 FM, Dover;

WJNE-95.3 FM, Georgetown;

WAFL-97.7 FM, Milford;

WRBG-98.5 FM, Salisbury;

WSBY-98.9 FM, Salisbury;

WJYN-103.5 FM, Georgetown;

WXCY-103.7 FM, Havre De Grace, Md.;

WOCQ-103.9 FM, Georgetown;

WLVW-105.5 FM, Salisbury;

WQHQ-104.7 FM, Salisbury;

WJWL-900 AM, Georgetown;

WYUS-930 AM, Milford;

WTGM-960 AM, Salisbury;

WJWK-1280 AM, Georgetown;

WDOV-1410 AM, Dover; and

WJDY-1470 AM, Salisbury.