Wednesday, December 10, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
By Andy Jacobitz
Staff Reporter
More college students are purchasing tele
phone answering devices than any other age
group, according to research conducted by Code-A-Phone
Corporation, one of the nation's largest
and oldest makers of answering machines.
A nationwide consumer survey revealed that
45 percent of all answering-machine buyers are
under age 35, with 18- to 24-year-olds emerging
as "perhaps the most important intent to pur
chase group," said Paul Newman, vice president
of marketing for Code-A-Phone.
Bernie Sandalow, a Code-A-Phone official,
said many new styles and colors of answering
machines make them the perfect Christmas gift
for busy college students.
Todd Schrandt of Dictaphone in Lincoln said
the he also has noticed the popularity of answer
ing machines among younger buyers. He said
that this popularity could be based on a recent
decrease in prices that has made the machines
more affordable. Schrandt said units range from
$45 to $395.
Some students buy the machine for fun, oth
ers for necessity.
UNL junior, Jeff Heins, a broadcasting major
from Columbus, said he bought his answering
machine for receiving important calls. It also
greatly assists people in contacting him, he said.
Pete Castellano, a junior political science
major from Bellevue, said he purchased a tele
phone answering machine because he is never
around when people try to call hirn. Because his
roommate also is gone a lot, Catellano said, the
answering machine decreases the number of
messages he misses.
Junior Brian Wolford of Kearney said that the
machine is good for receiving important calls,
but he said that the top reason that he has one is
because it is fun to make messages and to
receive them.
Recordings that some students have used on
their machines include a rap, Christmas carols,
an original-message contest, voice impressions
and an excerpt from the "Twilight Zone."
Students also have used popular songs and
television tunes.
Wolford said that one of his former roommates
created a recording that led callers to believe
that they were actually talking to someone by
carrying on a simple, generic conversation. He
said that callers were rather embarrassed when
they realized that they were actually conversing
with a machine.
"It's good to change the message at least once
a week or else people get tired of them," said
Lois Rohlfing, a junior from Talmage. People get
mad if you are not original, she said.
Brad Katz of DeWitt said his roommate pur
chased an answering machine because it would
make him sound important. Katz said that they
use the machine when they are gone or taking a
nap.
Handicapped aid reduced
LEGISLATURE from Page 1
Omaha Sen. Ernest Chambers supported
Sieck's amendment. He said the Legislature has
not been fair to the mentally handicapped.
"The retarded need bread, and the Legisla
ture gives them stones," Chambers said.
Farnam Sen. Tom Vickers opposed Sieck's
amendment, arguing that the state-aid portion of
the general-fund budget should have to bear part
of the budget-cutting brunt.
Some senators talked over adjouring the spe
cial session and going home. They rejected, 7-34,
a motion presented by Chambers to kill the
budget bill.
Chambers called the special sessions "a lying
session" in which senators were not facing the
real issue a tax increase to solve the state's
financial problems.
"This is not going to avoid a tax increase," he
said.
Omaha Sen. Vard Johnson said that although
he did not approve of everything in the budget
package, it was "reasonable" and would help
balance the state budget.
"This Legislature, unlike Congress, has the
backbone" to balance the budget, Johnson said.
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