Wireless U ; Schools Are Offering Cellular Services with Lots of Student- Friendly Features

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For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cellphone 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," said Chicken, 19, now preparing to enter his sophomore year.

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Wireless U ; Schools Are Offering Cellular Services with Lots of Student- Friendly Features

But the Sussex County resident said students have realized that the voluntary Global Positioning System offered added safety and the required phone had many useful functions. It comes loaded with quick links to university services and security, plus local weather and transit information.

"Most people have adjusted to it," said Chicken, who's never activated the phone's GPS feature....

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