The University of Idaho’s Vandal Alert system that pings the cellphones of students was designed to promptly notify the campus community of ongoing threats to public safety, such as violent crimes and severe weather events.

So it was unusual when a recent Vandal Alert urged people to call police if they saw a certain journalism professor on campus.

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