CU Boulder Sexual Assault Amid 2022 Move-In

Thousands of students are flocking to the University of Colorado Boulder campus for the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, and the CU Boulder Police Department‘s patrol cars have been figuratively transformed into welcome wagons, with officers working hard to send a message of safety to new arrivals.

But mere hours after proclaiming “a great end of day 3 of move-in” in a tweet accompanying photos of law enforcement officers passing out popsicles to incoming students, the department issued a safety alert about a reported sexual assault at Williams Village, 3300 Baseline Road, the university’s largest undergraduate housing complex — and the search for a suspect is ongoing.

Here’s the tweet that immediately preceded the sexual-assault bulletin, sent at 4:25 p.m. on August 17.

As things…