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...purpose of an answering machine--no matter how amusing--is still to take messages. Good messages tend to elicit responses from callers, even those who have dialed the wrong number, say students. "It's a good feeling" when one of the messages says "nice message but wrong number," Yakir Siegal's '89 says...
Funny recordings challenge people to leave a funny message, Siegal says. "You have to live up to that when you leave a message...
...Currier resident recorded a variation on that theme. His message started off innocently enough asking callers to leave a message at the beep. But Siegal used the pushbutton tone on his hallmate's phone to record a fake beep...
Sometimes the incidents are not as harmless. When Siegel was a sophomore, his professor in Chemistry 20 gave him very little extra time for completing exams, despite the fact that Siegel takes longer than most students to write. The professor, Siegal says, also threatened to withhold credit because he was unwilling to let Siegel participate in labs...
...dictate to a candidate that she call herself Miss or else use her married name." One way out of this thicket of titles would be for the Times simply to drop the use of honorifics altogether. But that course of action was rejected by News Editor Allan M. Siegal last week. Said he: "Everybody feels, I think unanimously, that that wouldn't sound like the New York Times...