<p>DD has already exchanged cell phone numbers and email addresses with her roommate. If the kid went MIA....dd would just call her cell and leave a message "hi...hope everything is ok. Give me a call when you have a chance".</p>
<p>I have also told my daughter- to be sure and let roommates know where she is going, just out of courtesy.
When she was a junior- before school started I was trying to contact her & didn't get a response. I became concerned, but because I knew her HAs ( they were both friends) I contacted them, to see if they knew where she was.
She had gone on an out of town orientation trip, and just didn't mention it.
It wasn't a big deal to contact them- and later that year, when I knew she was having a rough time, and I was concerned about letting her know her cat died, I contacted her HAs first.
I have complained about Reed being such a small school, but sometimes there are advantages; like when there is an HA for a small group of kids.</p>
<p>Its just better to be safe than sorry, if foul play has occurred, it is important to have a clear idea of when they actually went missing.
<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/missing/%5B/url%5D">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/missing/</a>
A boy from my daughters high school went missing after a party at Tulane a few years ago. His friends however, notified the school right away, and a search was begun, but even so he wasn't found for several months( in the mississipi river).</p>
<p>I agree that it could be a situation where they just found someplace else to stay- but I don't even want to think about being a parent whose child went missing, and later found out that they had been missing long before anyone was notified</p>