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Cell phones close to
campus invasion
■ The new millennium has
brought with it an influx of
the sometimes annoying
phones on campus
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
They are available in many dif
ferent shapes, colors and with a
variety of different rings. They
have slowly found their way into
many people’s purses, pants’
pockets and backpacks, including
those of University students.
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
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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.
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