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About 300 student phone lines were disconnected this week by the Harvard Student Telephone Office in an effort to collect unpaid bills.
Students who tried to make long distance calls were met only with a fast busy signal. And some lines were disconnected, leaving callers to many rooms to be greeted with only a recording informing them, "You have reached a non-working or disconnected number at Harvard University..."
Any balance over 60 days overdue resulted in the termination of the personal access code a student uses to make long distance calls. For delinquent students who pay for telephone lines, both the code and the line were disconnected.
The Wednesday their phone line was disconnected was "a miserable experience," Lederman and Levy said. They also complained of other problems they have encountered with the telephone office.
Last July, even as reports of violence continued to multiply, the National Domestic Violence Hotline was disconnected. The 800 number had received as many as 10,000 calls a month from across the country. Now, says Mary Ann Bohrer, founder of the New York City-based Council for Safe Families...