ROLM Phone

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ROLM Phones make up the campus-wide phone system. Student phone numbers are 212-853-xxxx. Administration and faculty phone numbers are 212-854-xxxx. Standard ROLM Phone units have free on-campus dialing, voice mail, call forwarding, call waiting, and a one-way speaker phone.

Before ROLM, there was CENTREX. Then, ROLM was installed at some point in the late 80s / early 90s. But of course, as the saying goes, ROLM wasn't built in a day. Initially, the system was a useful medium for connecting members of the campus. However, ROLM phones are now generally unused by students, who opt instead for the many more convenient forms of inter-campus communication such as e-mail, instant messaging, and cell phones.

Campus wide phone messages sent to ROLM phones absolutely never contain useful information that cannot be obtained elsewhere quicker and more conveniently. A folded piece of paper tucked under the plastic faceplate is an effective way to hide the annoying red blinking light.

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