Word: centrex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hachikian encourages anyone who feels uncomfortable walking home, alone or not, to call Safetywalk at 6-5656 from a Centrex phone. Bicycling escorts will arrive in a matter of minutes and guide students through the darkness...
...University Police Department to install new phones on the way to the Quad and near the river Houses. Nothing warms the cockles of our hearts more than the warm blue glow of a security phone and we're pleased that the landscape will be dotted with even more shimmering Centrex terminals...
Like the old models, most of the new phones are also equipped with a regular keypad permitting phone calls to all Harvard numbers in the centrex system...
...rationales against phones is that in our enclosed universe one is always near an accessible telephone; from someone's room to a Centrex or a friendly pay phone, it isn't hard to place a call. But for pay phones you need to find 35 cents or remember your calling card number. Always a pain. And Centrexes have the whole privacy issue. Someone calls up and you hear the customary static and background noise. "How are you?" And then you can broadcast your personal business over a rather wide radius. Not so fun. And you can only call Harvard people...
Undergraduates will no longer need to call friends from Centrex phones outside or "piggyback" off good samaritans to gain entry to Quincy House thanks to a universal keycard access pilot plan scheduled to begin at the end of this month...