Campus Safety non-emergency line down; emergency calls routed to 911
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedOn December 12, 2024, a Hawk Alert reported that the Campus Safety non-emergency line was down, directed all emergency calls to 911, and provided 319-335-1990 for non-emergency calls. A follow-up Hawk Alert said phone services had been restored.
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Alert Sequence
2 messages in sequence · 2 verified verbatim
Confirmed wording is transcribed character-for-character from a primary source. Use Verify this quote under each message to open that source in a new tab and compare the text yourself.
How the first alert is built
To check this alert, Claude (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.
HAWK ALERT: Campus Safety non-emergency line down. All emergency calls should be directed to 911. Non-emergency calls to 319-335-1990. More: emergency.uiowa.edu
Sourcepresent25/25
Final assessment
All 25 agree HAWK ALERT brands the message as the campus emergency sender.
Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.
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- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded sender tag
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded sender tag.
- present: Message is branded HAWK ALERT from the campus emergency system.
- present: Opens with branded signature HAWK ALERT, which identifies the sender system.
- present: Branded HAWK ALERT plus Campus Safety names the issuing side.
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender label.
- present: HAWK ALERT marks an official branded campus alert source.
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender tag
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender label.
- present: HAWK ALERT is a campus brand label on the alert
- present: Opens with HAWK ALERT as a branded campus alert label
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded sender signature that identifies the issuing system.
- present: HAWK ALERT prefixes the message as a campus emergency brand tag.
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded sender tag that identifies the issuing system.
- present: HAWK ALERT labels the message as a campus emergency brand
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded sender signature that identifies the issuing system.
- present: HAWK ALERT is the branded campus emergency sender label
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded sender signature identifying the campus alert system
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus sender signature on the message
- present: HAWK ALERT prefixes the SMS as a branded campus emergency sender
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender label
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender signature
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender tag that identifies the issuing system.
- present: HAWK ALERT marks the message with a campus emergency brand tag
- present: HAWK ALERT is a branded campus emergency sender label
Hazardpresent25/25
Final assessment
Unanimous that Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.
See all 25 individual reads
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down is a specific operational hazard.
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: States the Campus Safety non emergency line is down, a specific outage.
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage.
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: Non-emergency line down is a named service failure hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service-outage hazard.
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage.
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service-outage hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a concrete service outage
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service-outage hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service-outage hazard
- present: Campus Safety non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard.
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service-outage hazard
- present: Non-emergency line down names a specific service outage hazard
Locationabsent0/25
Final assessment
All 25 find no building, street, campus place, or the area; Campus Safety names a service, not a geographic site.
Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.
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- absent: No building, street, campus place, or the area given
- absent: No building, street, campus place, or the area is given for an incident site.
- absent: No geographic place is named; Campus Safety is a service not a location.
- absent: No building, street, campus place, or area is given as an incident location.
- absent: No building, street, or campus place is given for where something is occurring.
- absent: No building, street, or other geographic place is named.
- absent: No street, building, campus site, or the area is given.
- absent: No building, street, campus place, or the area is given; Campus Safety is a service not a site
- absent: No building, street, campus site, or the area is named.
- absent: No building, street, ramp, or campus site is named
- absent: No building, street, ramp, campus site, or the area is named
- absent: No building, street, campus place, or the area is given; Campus Safety is a unit name.
- absent: No building, street, ramp, or other geographic site is named.
- absent: No building, street, campus site, or the area is given as an incident place.
- absent: No building, street, ramp, or other geographic site is named
- absent: No building, street, campus site, or the area is given as a geographic location.
- absent: No building, street, campus site, or the area is named
- absent: No building, street, campus place, or the area is given as a site
- absent: No building, street, campus site, or area is given as a place
- absent: No building, street, ramp, campus site, or the area is named as a place
- absent: No building, street, ramp, campus site, or the area is named
- absent: No building, street, ramp, campus site, or the area is named
- absent: No building, street, campus place, or the area is given as an incident site.
- absent: No building, street, ramp, or other geographic site is named
- absent: No building, street, ramp, or other geographic site is named
Guidancepresent25/25
Final assessment
Unanimous: directing emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to the alternate number is recipient guidance.
The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.
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- present: Direct emergency calls to 911 is guidance for recipients
- present: Direct emergency calls to 911 and the alternate number guide recipients.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to a stated number.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to an alternate number.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non emergency calls to an alternate number.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to an alternate number.
- present: Routes emergencies to 911 and gives an alternate non-emergency number.
- present: Direct emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency to 319-335-1990 guide recipients
- present: Send emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency to 319-335-1990.
- present: Send emergency calls to 911 is clear recipient guidance
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and gives a non-emergency number
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and gives an alternate non-emergency number.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency to the alternate number.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to 319-335-1990.
- present: Route emergency calls to 911 and give the alternate number as guidance
- present: Directing emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to 319-335-1990 is recipient guidance.
- present: Direct emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency to 319-335-1990
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to the alternate number
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to 319-335-1990
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to 319-335-1990
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and gives alternate non-emergency number
- present: Route emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency to 319-335-1990
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency calls to an alternate number.
- present: Directs emergency calls to 911 and non-emergency to 319-335-1990
- present: Direct emergency calls to 911 and the alternate number guide recipients
Timeabsent0/25
Final assessment
All 25 find no clock time, date, now, until, ongoing, or other recency cue.
When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.
See all 25 individual reads
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or ongoing cue
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or ongoing time wording.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue is given.
- absent: No clock time, date, now, immediately, until, or ongoing time wording.
- absent: No clock time, date, or recency cue is present in the text.
- absent: No clock time, date, now, ongoing, or other recency cue appears.
- absent: Lacks clock time, date, now, until, or other time bound.
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or similar time cue
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or ongoing time cue.
- absent: No clock hour, date, now, or until phrasing appears
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or other time bound
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or other recency wording is present.
- absent: No clock time, calendar date, now, until, or other time bound appears.
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or ongoing wording appears.
- absent: No clock, date, now, until, or other time bound appears
- absent: No clock time, date, now, immediately, until, or other recency cue is present.
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or ongoing time cue
- absent: No clock time, date, now, immediately, until, or similar recency cue
- absent: No clock time, date, now, immediately, or until cue is present
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or ongoing temporal cue
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or other time bound
- absent: No clock, date, now, until, or ongoing timing cue appears
- absent: No clock time, date, now, immediately, until, or ongoing time wording.
- absent: No clock, date, now, until, or other temporal bound is present
- absent: No clock time, date, now, until, or other time bound
Impactabsent0/25
Final assessment
Unanimous: line down is the hazard itself with no separate severity or consequence wording.
What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.
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- absent: No severity or consequence language stated
- absent: No stated severity or consequences such as danger or injury risk.
- absent: Line down is the hazard itself with no separate severity or magnitude stated.
- absent: No consequence or severity beyond the line being down itself.
- absent: No consequence or severity of the line outage is described.
- absent: Line down is the hazard itself with no separate impact or severity stated.
- absent: No separate severity, harm, or magnitude beyond the outage itself.
- absent: Line down is the hazard itself; no separate severity or consequence is stated
- absent: No severity, consequence, or harm language is stated.
- absent: No injury, severity, or consequence language is given
- absent: No separate severity, injury, or consequence wording is stated
- absent: No consequence or severity language beyond stating the line is down.
- absent: No separate severity, injury, or consequence language beyond the outage itself.
- absent: No consequence, severity, or harm to people or property is stated.
- absent: No severity, injury, or consequence language beyond the outage itself
- absent: No separate consequence or severity is stated beyond the line being down.
- absent: No severity, consequence, or harm language is stated
- absent: No separate severity or consequence beyond the line being down itself
- absent: No consequence or severity language beyond the line being down
- absent: No severity, consequence, or harm language is stated beyond the outage itself
- absent: No separate severity, injury, or consequence wording is stated
- absent: No consequence, injury, danger, or severity language is stated
- absent: No consequence or severity is stated beyond the line being down itself.
- absent: No separate severity, injury, or consequence wording beyond the outage
- absent: No severity, injury, or consequence language beyond the outage itself
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Campus Alert Archive. "University of Iowa: Campus Safety non-emergency line down; emergency calls routed to 911." Incident of December 12, 2024. Added July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/university-of-iowa-campus-safety-phone-outage-2024-12-12/
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