Okay, Okay, carnation's retro rush thread (ie, how not to do recruitment)

[MSKKG]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

no one had phones in their rooms during my time

Guess we've come full circle because most of the kids now just use their cell phones instead of having a phone in their room. My son had a phone jack in his room, but he and his roomie never connected a phone.

I remember having phones in my room though. At the Kappa house, we had a WATS line that the in-state girls (or I guess any out-of-state member who wanted to make in-state long distance calls) could pay to use. It was great!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by MSKKG

Guess we've come full circle because most of the kids now just use their cell phones instead of having a phone in their room. My son had a phone jack in his room, but he and his roomie never connected a phone.

I remember having phones in my room though. At the Kappa house, we had a WATS line that the in-state girls (or I guess any out-of-state member who wanted to make in-state long distance calls) could pay to use. It was great!

*waiting for someone to question what a WATS line is!*

[polarpi]

Originally Posted by honeychile

*waiting for someone to question what a WATS line is!*

I'll bite - what's a WATS line?

[Jobellesis]

We used a STAN card to make long distance cards. All the rooms in my dorm had phones.

[MSKKG]

It stands for Wide Area Telephone Service. Basically, whoever wanted to use the phone split the cost of having it. We could call anywhere in Mississippi, so we didn't have long distance charges to worry about.

Of course, the out-of-state members wouldn't be required to sign up unless they had family or friends in Mississippi they wanted to call.

[EtaPhiZTA]

I didn't have one at school, but I did have the benefit of using a WATS line through my father's work. It was kind of like an 800 number that you would dial, then you would input the long distance number that you wanted to call. It was wonderful because you never had to watch the clock when you talked long distance.