At 11:32 a.m. on Monday a symphony erupted from every pocket on the University’s campus.

Phones chirped and vibrated, alerting students of a bomb threat.

A voice message quickly commandeered all on-campus phone lines. “All faculty, staff and students are encouraged to evacuate as calmly and quickly as possible,” it said.

Surrounding streets quickly filled with pedestrians, cars and buses — fleeing campus. As University personnel and students left, confusion ensued, according to business management sophomore Jessie Cline.

“I sat down to eat lunch and within five minutes there were tons of students and cars going by. I stayed near campus just in case classes weren’t canceled.”

Faculty expressed similar frustrations. Robert Mann, director of the Reilly Center and mass communication professor, said the instructions were too vague.

“The text I received merely said to “evacuate,” Mann said in an email. “It didn’t specify what was supposed to be evacuated — my building, the immediate vicinity, or the entire campus. I found out through word of mouth that there were other apparent official messages telling personnel that the entire campus was being evacuated. I and the other faculty I spoke with did not receive that message.”

Police officers closed streets, forcing students to take alternate routes home in an attempt to avoid traffic. But even alternate routes quickly slowed to a halt.

Not everyone left campus immediately. Chemical engineering sophomore Tiffany Lyan finished her in-class assignments before evacuating.

“My professor said we could leave if we wanted to, but also said we could stay to finish our lab,” she explained. “About half of the students stayed to finish titrations.”

Chelsie Ciccone, theater sophomore, attempted to contact friends about a scheduled test but was confronted by an error message.

“I couldn’t do anything really,” Ciccone said. “I had a test today. I don’t know what is going to happen and the cell network is too busy to check my email.”

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope also questioned the status of classes that didn’t meet. He said the University should consider adding a day because many students missed classes.

“We were just under way when campus received word of the bomb threat,” Cope said. “The University will have to look at the percentage of how much class was missed in order to decide whether to add another day.”