On Cell Phones  This semester, I am taking an Art History class
(1400AD-Modern) from one of my sister’s favorite Profs (who
remembers her most for her bear, Edward.) On the first day of
class, a student’s cell phone started ringing. Without missing a
beat, Professor Parrish said, “silence that phone immediately.
This time I will let it pass, but in future do you know what we
do to phones that go off in during class? We take them up front,
put them on the floor and grind our heel into it. Then it will
not ever go off again.”   The student whose phone was ringing
frantically found her phone and turned it off. Then there was no
more ringing in class. Then, Monday rolled around. Professor
Parrish was lecturing on early Renaissance architecture.
Suddenly, in the middle of talking about Philippe Brunelleschi,
who lost a competition in Florence to design the doors to the
Baptistery, the ringing of the phone breaks Professor Parrish’s
sentence. Confused, Professor Parrish says, “That sounds like my
phone. Oh well. Th