As we are sitting in class daydreaming, I mean, listening, all of the sudden that obnoxious noise reverberates throughout the room.
“Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!”
Someone suddenly becomes mortified when he realizes that it was he that forgot to turn off his cell phone. While his teacher gives him a nasty glare, he quickly rummage through his bag to turn off the ever-so-popular piece of new age technology.
“It happened to me twice,” said Michelle Primo, ’03. “I forgot to turn my cell phone off and it went off in class. Since then, I always remember to turn it off.”Are cell phones invading our classrooms at Fairfield University?
According to most professors, the answer is no. Students at Fairfield seem to be showing, for the most part, some cell phone etiquette.
“I don’t think it’s a problem,” said Robert Epstein, an English professor here at Fairfield University. “They have gone off a couple of times, but students usually turn them off.”
Matt Colford, ’04, has never had his cell phone ring during class, but has seen the phenomenon occur.
“Once in a while, cell phones go off in the classroom,” said Colford. “When they do, it disrupts everything.”
Dennis Hodgson, a sociology professor, agrees. “I haven’t seen it as a problem. If I did, I would say ‘Hey, shut off your cell phone!'”
See “turn off” on p. 10
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