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Banning Cell Phones At College

Feb 25, 2006 4:40AM PST

I can't believe that a University is being run by such ignorant people that they banned cell phones for fear of the electro magnetic radiation they emit.

If a person was able to see radio waves and other electrical radiation, the air would be completely opaque. In any given place, there probably would a something like:

20 or 30 commercial radio and television waves

Dozens of local and state government broadcast waves

Emergency services

International shorwave broadcasts

Business radio communications including trucking, taxi services, utility services, hospital and manufacturing.

National weather service radar

Ham communications

Not to mention the entire electrical power grid that weaves together the country. Any power outlet is a source of radiation and the devices plugged into it also emit energy.

I don't think eliminating a narrow band of radiation around 850 mHz will make much of a difference.

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I thought they banned WiFi...
Feb 25, 2006 5:02AM PST

Not cell phones?

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It was WiFi, but banning cell phones...
Feb 25, 2006 5:13AM PST

It was Wifi, but banning cell phones would rock. 4 years ago, on the first day of classes in Fall Semester (I was a Junior), I walked around campus and counted to 10 everytime I passed someone using a cell phone, until I passed someone else and reset the count.
I never got past 10.

I hate cell phones. Happy

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They shouldn't be banned on campus...
Feb 25, 2006 5:28AM PST

In classrooms, okay, but not on campus. Thats just Soviet.

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Might as well board up all the windows too ..
Feb 25, 2006 1:08PM PST

Sunlight is hazardous to people's health as well.

-Terry

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also
Feb 25, 2006 1:24PM PST

Might as well get rid of anything that doesn't qualify as health food. After all, it could lead to obesity and heart attacks and cancer and making scary faces at babies, and so on and so forth.


Now I return to eating M&M's by the handful.

-Ryan

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Hehehe ..
Feb 25, 2006 1:44PM PST

Might as well ban food all together then. There isn't anything that won't do you harm in some form or fashion at some point in time. The way I look at it, we all die, so might as well enjoy it. Happy

-Terry