"Colleges Go Cellular to Contact Students"

[GreenPartyVoter]

CINCINNATI (AP) - For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus.

"I think some didn't like the idea that they had to have it, and some thought it was a new way to track them," Chicken, 19, now preparing to enter his sophomore year at the New Jersey college.

But Chicken said that as time passed, students realized that the voluntary tracking system offered added safety and that the required phone had many useful functions.

"Most people have adjusted to it," said Chicken, now a fan.

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