It has happened to us all-the voice mail experience. We have checked for the infamous stutter-dial tone, punched in a zillion buttons, and accessed our mailboxes. In its first year of use in the Rhodes Community, the voice mail system has received a variety of responses.
Some students love it, some despise it, but most are somewhere in the middle of the road.
Since many people expressed a want for a voicemail system, a committee was formed a year ago, to look into the issue. Richard Huddleston, bursar, was assigned the task of handling the process and instigating the realization of a voicemail system. The campus has generally responded favorably to the system. While answering machines must be shared by the other occupants of a room or suite, the voice mail system offers each student the privacy of a personal account. The convenience of being able to access the messages from any location is also a favorable aspect to the system.