If you aren't wearing a green blazer, the histrionics are mostly amusing, as are the sirens howling from an event that prides itself on intense institutional control.
That's not the sirens' fault -- a mind-numbingly loud "whoop whoop" really doesn't have the bandwidth to reveal that kind of information to the human ear -- but now that SMS-capable phones are ubiquitous, it's time to smarten things up just a tad.