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Cellular phones have become almost as common as umbrellas on campus, enabling students to make and receive phone calls from virtually anywhere, even class. Chris Wade, a senior account ing major, received his cell phone as a gift from his family to let him know if his younger brother’s soc cer practice changed or if the fam ily dinner had been postponed. He said although it can some times feel clumsy, he carries his cell phone everywhere but makes sure he turns it to the silent mode during class and movies. A few weeks ago, however, Wade said he forgot to turn the switch off, and his cell phone did ring in class. “I just felt like an idiot,” he said. Although he managed to turn the phone off after only one ring and the professor pretended not to have noticed, Wade said the in cident taught him a lesson. “I’ll never forget again,” he said. Wade said he is always on the go, and his cell phone makes it easier for him to reach people, as well as for his friends and family to reach him. He said the cell phone especially comes in handy when he works on projects and he has a question. Marla Meadows, a sophomore majoring in psychology, received her cell phone as a birthday pre sent. Meadows said she was do ing a lot of driving between her hometown in Saint Helens and Eugene, and her mom thought it was a good idea for her to have a cell phone so she could call for help if she ever got stuck on the road. “I think it’s really helpful,” Meadows said. She said she usually carries her cell phone everywhere, but turns it off during classes and leaves it in her car when she goes to a movie. Only her close friends and <000000000 Mobile phone facts How many people use cellular phones? As of J u ne 1999, there were 76,284,753 cell phone users in the United States. How does wireless technology work? When you talk on a wireless phone, it transmits low energy ra dio waves to a local antenna site, which sends signals back to your wireless phone. SOURCE: The World of Wireless. Communications family have the number. Meadows said apart from hav ing the convenience of receiving and placing calls anytime and any where, she saves money by using her cell phone for long-distance calls. When Amy Nickerson, a fresh man, looks around her circle of college friends, she sees about four students who have cell phones. Nickerson said she does not have a cell phone but is con sidering purchasing one in the summer. Cell phones ringing in class are far from foreign to Nickerson. She said a cell phone rings in one of her classes about once a week. “It doesn’t really bother me,” she said. She said, however, she might feel differently if she were the pro fessor being interrupted by a ring ing cell phone in the middle of lec turing. “I would imagine that they [professors] think it’s kind of rude or disrespectful,” she said. To avoid exactly such a situa tion, Robert Haskett, an associate professor of history, said he asks his students to turn off their cell phones during his class. Haskett said no cell phone has ever rang during one of his classes, but said he has heard from fellow profes sors that ringing cell phones dur ing class are not uncommon. “I think it would disrupt things,” he said. To prevent interrupting class, freshman business major Brandon Schmidt, always turns his cell phone off during classes and in sit uations where a ringing phone would be improper. “I’m pretty good about turning it off when it’s appropriate,” he said. Like Wade and Meadows, Schmidt said he likes the conve nience of being able to make a phone call anytime and anywhere. DnonnnooPi Calendar Thursday, Feb. 3 Backcountry skiing and camping clinic: Outdoor Program Coordinator Dan Geiger will present information on the equipment, techniques and destinations of backcountry skiing and camping. 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