After a three-hour community-wide meeting at Marlboro College last week, students, faculty and staff decided not to ban cell phones from the small rural campus. Students dropped their resolution restricting cell phones to private quarters in return for a promise from cell phone-owning students not to use them. Good call.

This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2004.

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