The end of the dorm phone?

[rev-ed]

According to this report many universities are at least considering getting rid of land lines in the dorms.

Some of my best and worst memories of college was the phone. At Ball State, we shared one phone between two rooms. It sat in the wall (literally) in a box with doors on either side. Of course those doors didn't seal the box from the other room, so the smells from next door were always seeping through. My "phone-mates" were heavily into weed and I learned what it smells like mighty quickly!

[SoDak_IndyFan]

At Sam Houston State (Huntsville, TX), that was one of the biggest sources of profitability for the local phone co. The "re-connection" charge for the phone each new academic year...sometimes, each new semester!!

[cheeseczar]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rev-ed
[B] At Ball State





BALL U!
BALL U!!

[Whosyer-Sparkplug]

Originally posted by rev-ed
... Some of my best and worst memories of college was the phone. At Ball State, we shared one phone between two rooms. It sat in the wall (literally) in a box with doors on either side. Of course those doors didn't seal the box from the other room, so the smells from next door were always seeping through. My "phone-mates" were heavily into weed and I learned what it smells like mighty quickly!

Ah yes Ball State... when I was attending Anderson College we use to head to Ball State for the weekend dorm parties... there was free food and drink and all the co-eds we could manhandle...

Thanks to the fact that the majority of Ball State men would head to Ohio on Friday night for the nickle 3.2 beers.

[nascarnation]

My observation at Purdue is you use your cell phone when you're out of the dorm or apartment, and instant messenger on the net when you're in. The old "land line" is pretty much redundant.
I wonder if they will go to VOIP and eliminate the old phone system?

[Whosyer-Sparkplug]

My kid keeps whispering about the walker in my future since I refuse to carry a cell phone.

Heck I could do without the land line if it wasn't for carry out.

[crispy]

Family plans.

Unlimited pcs-to-pcs minutes.

What's a land line?

[EDwardo]

Land lines, stamps, vinyl records.

I feel so 20th century........

[Micki]

Most dorms have the finest in high speed internet available, so for those tech savvy youngens the broadband long distance must be the bomb (do they still say that?).

[autoracingfan2]

Originally posted by Micki
Most dorms have the finest in high speed internet available, so for those tech savvy youngens the broadband long distance must be the bomb (do they still say that?).

"Da Bomb"

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

[roadracer]

Ah, the phonebox.

There's a memory. The free and open sharing with one's phone mates. Man college was fun.

[Micki]

Originally posted by autoracingfan2
"Da Bomb"

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

I misprounounced the Jamie R term Jamie is a girl that used to work for me at the bank before I moved on the brokerage
She was a model who was in high school when I was 27 (they were saying "da bomb" then '97) Jamie is perhaps the most stunningly beutiful girl I have ever encounted in my life. She was doing her HS business credits as a part time teller at the bank I ran in the suburban area between chicago and joliet. The people that I worked with were either from Chicago or first generation suburbans... She has the total sout side accent....kinda like the receptionist on news radio.

I have no idea where she is now, but she was so cool., absolutely the nicest girl you ever met that looked like that, if you know what I mean.... Her younger brother was the star football playerin mokena and then at Lincoln way HS.


Those 2 kids were left completly to their own divices from early in their youth... Her brother's coaches were willing to take him in from day one due to his football talent. She wasn't welcome anywhere buy she had good street smarts, until she got messed up with a mideastern dude that overshadwed her and caused her to make bad decisions.... I always felt a great sypathy for her, stunninly beatiful and completly lost...