Police are encouraging the University of Connecticut to find a new vendor to manage the college’s emergency text-message alert system after a Feb. 23 incident that underlined glitches in the current system, the Hartford Courant reports. Police sent a text message through the emergency system to 16,000 students, staff, parents, and others after a mysterious hole was found in the ice on Swan Lake. But some reported receiving the text message on their cell phones up to an hour after it was sent, said Maj. Ronald Blicher, describing the delay as "unsatisfactory." The incident marked the first time that the text system, managed by Reverse 911 of Indianapolis, had been used in a real situation. It was set up in response to lessons learned from Virginia Tech, where students were not warned immediately of a gunman on campus who killed 32 people, then himself, during a rampage in April…

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