Earlier this week, a bomb squad was dispatched to University Town Center to investigate a suspicious package, resulting in the evacuation of students and employees and the closure of the UTC building for several hours.

There was seemingly no escape from the litany of e-mails, text messages and automated voice messages sent out through the new CruzAlert system to the students and faculty members of the UC Santa Cruz community reporting a “suspicious device” near the campus main gate on May 21.