UConn Alert System Faulted
Feb. 25
STORRS - - Police are encouraging the University of Connecticut to find a new vendor to manage the college's emergency text-message alert system after an incident Saturday that underlined glitches in the current system. Police sent a text message through the emergency system to 16,000 students, staff, parents and others on Saturday after a mysterious hole was found in the ice on Swan Lake. Blicher said Sunday that police sent a message Saturday to inform the public of a 6-foot hole found in the ice in the center of Swan Lake, prompting a two-hour search by divers and other authorities.
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