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Blicher was right not to use the text notification system. The last thing the police need when a sensitive crime like that is freshly reported is 12000 shocked, enraged, frightened, and/or drunk students with sparse information reacting emotionally to the situation in the wee hours of the morning. Reacting to the student body's reaction would impede any police effort to collect evidence and search for a suspect.

Students should keep in mind that just because a convenient technology exists doesn't mean that it should be used for their convenience. And that some things are still better left in the hands of the grownups.

Good point DC...

UConn police messed up yet again....(they make many mistakes...but dont like to admit it).

So they send a text message because a hole developed in the ice on a pond (although no one was reported missing). Police said thin ice is a safety issue. It was a warm day out...obviously you shouldnt go randomly walking on a semi-frozen pong. Newsflash...put signs up near the lake if the police are so worried.

But the police feel a rape by someone with a weapon doesnt qualify as a saftey issue, instead it is a "crime"? So if someone got stabbed in a dorm, and the person who did it ran away...this would be considered a crime right? not a safety issue hence no text message?

Mr. Blicher will need to better explain/admit his mistake of not using the text message system.

I really think UConn's chain of command is just too messed up to be good..hence this error.