In the event that the predicted ice storm materializes, KU will consider moving Tuesday finals to Thursday, Jan. 17 – scheduled to be the first day of spring classes.In an e-mail sent to students, faculty and staff, KU said that a decision on whether to have tonight’s the 7:30 p.m. finals would be made by 6 p.m. A decision on the Tuesday finals will be made by 6 a.m. Tuesday and will be communicated by e-mail and text message.KU used its emergency text message system for the first time Monday in order to alert students to the e-mail it had just sent.KU spokesman Todd Cohen said “never in recent memory” had the university been forced to postpone a final because of weather.Students in the Law School and the PharmD program will make up any missed finals on a different schedule dictated by the deans of their schools.