Voice Mail Information

Meridian Mail Student Voice Mailbox

Meridian Mail is an electronic voice messaging system that gives you an easy, fast and dependable way to communicate with people both inside and outside the College. A voice mailbox has been established for each resident student on campus. Upon being assigned a room, you will need to personalize the "greeting" and change the "password" on your voice mailbox. Your unique password will discourage anyone from breaking into your mailbox and listening to or deleting your messages. Without a password, students cannot assume privacy of their voice mail. If you are on the telephone you will receive a "call waiting tone" which indicates a second incoming call. The voice mail system will not answer your call if the line is busy. Meridian Mail notifies you when a new message arrives by a stutter dial tone. Check the Meridian Mail instructions found in this directory for recording mailbox greetings and changing passwords

Telephone Abuse

.Phone abuse, and improper use of voice mail disrupts the business of the College, annoys fellow students, and is not in keeping with the social policy of the College - to be sensitive and considerate of the rights of others. Sending obscene or distasteful messages, or using distasteful language in your greeting can result in embarrassment for both you and your roommate. Remember that your family, friends, faculty and administrators, as well as fellow students will hear your greeting. Abusing the Meridian Mail System by locking out others from their voice mailbox, breaking into mailboxes and listening to private messages, sending voice mail messages in someone else’s name or any other disruption of service can be both hurtful and embarrassing. Misusing the phone system can result in a student losing phone and long distance privileges as well as being brought before the Honor Council. Incidents involving menacing messages or serious threats to personal safety should be reported to Campus Security at 4700.

Voice Mail

Voice mail is maintained by the Telecommunications Department. Maintenance on the Telephone System includes password changes and unlocking user voice mailboxes when necessary. Passwords can not be viewed, only changed when conditions warrant. If you are locked out of your mailbox, dial the Telecommunications Help Line, extension 7777, for assistance.

NOTE: Upon check out, It is the responsibility of each resident student to change his/her voice mailbox password back to a standard password. The standard password will be provided prior to check out. Failure to comply with this procedure will result in a $10 fine.

Telephone Fraud

The unauthorized use, possession and distribution of authorization codes, calling card numbers or credit card numbers with intent to defraud is a violation of Federal and State law. If convicted you may receive up to 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Any attempt to misuse the College Telephone Telephone System which results in loss of funds or increased expense to the College is a serious offense and will be handled appropriately. Long distance phone calls are NEVER FREE. Fraudulent use of the Telecommunications System is a violation of the honor code and will not be tolerated.

How to Report Problems

Student Repair- Call Extension 7777

Before calling to report a problem, attempt to determine whether the trouble is with your telephone set or with the telecommunications system. If you have more than one plug-in telephone, please unplug the one you were using when you noticed the problem. Then plug in another phone into the same outlet to see if the problem still exists. If it does not, the problem is probably with the first phone. We cannot repair telephone sets. To report a system problem, please call Voice Mail, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A technician will be dispatched the next business day to repair the problem.

Please leave a recorded message with the following information:

Your Name
Extension number to be serviced
Location of student phone (building and room number)
Complete description of the problem

Hints:

Each voice mailbox contains four minutes of message storage capacity, of which the greetings are a part of.
A ring no answer after dialing the Meridian Mail access number (3094) indicates that all links to the Meridian Mail system are busy. Continue to remain on the line, your call has been placed in a queue and will be answered by the next available link
A slow response to touch pad commands indicates that the system is experiencing peak traffic conditions.
Simultaneous operation of answering machines on College phone numbers providing voice mail service may cause telephone service interruption or disconnections