The topic is about volunteer EMS squads and yet you keep referring to a theoretical situation in which the volunteers are summoning "EMS" or not making scene before "EMS"...
The point is, the volunteer squads ARE the EMS, whether or not you want to admit that. They have the same certs as anyone else who wears the patch. You're talking about them like they're some people who are waiting for the "real" EMS to show up.
As Spock said you don't have a great track record for respecting volunteers, or even specifically college EMS (as I found out). I don't mean to disrespect your experience, because yes you have a lot more than most people around here, but try doing something positive for once instead of ripping on every volunteer, every kid who goes to college and is in EMS. Seriously, I've seen you give good, positive advice before and I for one would like to see more of it.
As for the situation with PSU it's a lot different from many other places as I understand. They do run their own ambulance squad (not QRS, ambulances). PSU is like a self-contained city, so it's pretty feasible for them to have their own emergency services, they do everything else.
College EMS? Great idea in theory, but in practice...not many colleges can afford to run an actual ambulance, and yeah basically you get to pick up drunks. You'd get more real experience running with an actual dept. in the city the college is in. I'd agree with Dust there it's pretty pointless...no experience, and actually if you just ran college EMS for 4 years you'd forget how to handle most everything (geriatrics, pediatrics, almost any medical condition other than being drunk).
(See Dust, I'm not totally stupid)