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Page 4 The Pendulum February 7, 1980 It’s not just any telephone building By Janet Spoon How would you like to talk with two of your friends on the telephone at the same time, or push one number to call someone in a hurry? These are two of the custom calling features you can re ceive when the new electronic switching station is completed on West College Avenue here at Elon College in 1981. The new switching station is ont of the many being built by Bell Telephone Company throughout North Carolina to give its customers one of the most modem telecom munications systems avail able. Four custom calling fea tures will be available to customers at a reasonable cost. These features are call forwarding, call waiting, three-way calling, and speed calling. Call waiting is used when someone else is trying to call you while you are talking on the telephone. You will be alerted by a beep that someone is trying to get through to you. Call forwarding will enable you to forward calls to you by dialing the number of the telephone wherever you will be. With the three-way calling feature, three people may talk together from different phone numbers. S[>eed calling allows for a convenient way to dial frequently called local and long distance numbers. It will enable customers to dial a code of one or two digits instead of the usual seven or 10 digits. Therefore time is saved with more accuracy in dialing. The electronic switching station being built at Elon will contain the high speed computer 2B electronic pro cessor. The 2A processor has the capability of producing thousands of calls instan taneously. It also has the ability of monitoring and correcting problems which had previously had to be fixed manually. The new station will lessen the diffi culties with the central tele phone office on East Davis St. in Burlington where all cables from residences and business come together. Preceding the Elon College conversion to ESS, the larger East Davis Street central office will be converted by mid-May 1980 to a 1-A processor. That processor will handle 226, 227, 228, and 229 exchanges. The Elon College 584 exchange is sche duled to be converted in 1981. The previous system, lo cated next to the building site on West College Avenue, was electro mechanical vrith mov ing switches called No. 5 cross bar dials. The ESS can iMSite Elen’s new switching station will enable persons to make aO sorts of multi-party calls, or to push only one number to call a frequently-used humber. Service from this station will b^n in 1981. Photo by John Hurd. handle many more calls than the previous switching system and in the same time. It is much more energy efficient in that it uses only a fraction of the space and power required for the old system. It incor porates computer-like mem ory solid state technology and stored program control. The transisitor of the ESS was developed by Bell Labs and is manufactured by West ern Electric. The Electronic brain can perform more than two million repair operations in the same time it normally takes a customer to dial one telephone number. Because of this it still has time to locate and fix problems. It can locate a customer’s pro blem and repair it often before the customer is even aware of it. Customers may expect at least one problem though. Because of the trem endous speed capability of ESS if one is c^ling from a Davis Street number there will be a delay of four to six seconds before it rings. Cust omers may also expect the dial tone and the ring to sound different. The new ESS will also be able to moniter and repair cable problems which may occur, particularly in bad weather. The arrival of the ESS to Burlington will bring to the area the benefit of a modem and more efficient telecom munications system along with the four modem custom calling features which should be something to look forward to. Photojoumalisni StBrtS March 5 Seat open in 3rd precinct Am r r- i ^ An intensive five-week workshop in photojoumalism will offer photographers and writers a chance to sharpen their skills with a camera. The course will meet on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9:50 from March 5 through April 2 in the Learning Resources Center classroom, Mooney 105. It is open to anyone interested in photo joumalism who has a camera for the five-week course. One semester hour of academic credit will be given upon successful completion of the workshop. The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Mary Ellen Priestley, professor of En glish and journalism, and Craig Stanfield, photograph er. Objectives of the course include production of news and feature photos as well as photo-features for newspa pers and magazines. The workshop is limited to 20 persons. Interested per sons should register for Communications 272-A, Photojournalism Workshop. Students interested in mnning for the recently vacated third precinct Senate seat can get information and forms from the SGA office. Applicants must live in West, North, Staley, and Moffit Dorms and Zeta House and have a 2.0 average. Filing deadline is Feb. 15 with elections to be held the following week. Unopened mail piles up Many students apparently do not know that they have mail boxes at Elon College. Judy Wrenn, acting super visor of the mail room, says that when the mail personnel cleaned out boxes during the holidays, they filled seven trays with mail that had to be returned to the sender, chiefly back to professors, admi ssions office and to financial aid officers. “Everyone who attends Elon College has a mail box,” Ms. Wrenn says. All any student has to do is to come to the mail room in the East Building on Haggard Avenue and ask for his or her box number and combina tion. Hours there are from 9 to 12 and from 1 to 4 Monday through Friday. Student Workers Wanted for Dining HaUs Contact Connie Southerland 8:30 to 2:30 Ext, 263 Recruitment Schedule Representatives from various companies and school systems ^ visit Elon this spring to interview seniors for employment. Below arc employers who have confirmed visits in Februarv* FEBRUARY Rose’s Stores Wwednesday, 13 p,^ Wedn^ay, 13 United Methodist Camps [all students eUgible] Thursday, 14 Snffnik PnKiio Tuesday, 19 Wednesday, 20 Wednesday, 20 Thursday, 21 Thursday, 21 Thursday, 21 Tuesday, 26 Tuesday, 26 Wednesday, 27 Suffolk Public Schools Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. Burlington Industries, Inc. BurUngton aty Schols Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. American Defender life Insurance GrecnyiOe Qty Schools Henry County Schools Patrick County Schools 7'! j Property and Liability Insurance Stadents int^ed in scheduling an inteniew shoold contact the Placement Office, 104 Alamance for an appointment. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE! EDUCATIONAL CENTER TEST PREPARATION SPECIALISTS SINCE 1938 Visit Our Centers And See For YourMlf Why We Mtke The Difference Call Days, Eves ft Weekends For classes in your area, call; 919/489-8720 Suits 102 ■ Crott BIdg. 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd. Durfwm. 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