What gets me is that there has been no University-wide email alert or anything. This happened three hours ago, and we only just heard of it when one of the ladies who works in our building came around to spread the news by word of mouth.
I'm sure that they could get a huge group of volunteers together to help search if they announced this!
So far I have not been impressed with how they are handling things. I'm office bound, but while I was at lunch I was listing to Rush Limbaugh. Granted I was only listening for about 15 minutes or so, but not once was the show inturrupted to announce this, nor during a commercial break. I don't have access to a Television, so perhaps they have something on the TV about this....
More information now available:
http://showmenews.com/2004/Jul/20040716News006.asp
Still not a lot of info, but there to appear to be several resources looking into this now (fire dept, City and University police, UMC Hospital helicopter, etc)