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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 22, 1990
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J-TALK testing achieves success
System transmits recorded messages between machines
By Jill Harrington Special to the Kansan
While KU professor Robert Nunley was returning to Lawrence after a day of business at Northwest Missouri State University recently, he decided to call his office from his cellular car phone and listen to his messages.
He answered some messages while driving, forwarded others to other faculty and left several on the system for later.
His efforts paid off. The next day, instead of playing catch-up by sorting through dozens of messages, Nunley had a typical day at the office.
Nunley used the University of Kansas "J-TALK" Voice Mail system, a sophisticated AT&T phone system that allows messages to be left, received and forwarded across campus or the country. J-Talk is one of the UU telecommunications department since Jan. 29.
"It's the best thing since apple pie a la mode," Nunley said.
If it proves successful, the department hopes to make it available to all KU faculty, staff and possibly students by Fall 1990.
Nunley is one of 150 faculty and staff in 23 departments on campus testing T-JALK, and the telecommunications department would like more people to use the system for the trial period ends in April.
The system is called voice mail because it allows the user to receive and forward messages and important information through the phone much like a memo would be sent through campus mail.
J-TALK users also can call their office phones from any touch-one phone, hear their messages and J-TALK users' extensions if needed.
"The analogy is, it's like two answering machines that can talk to each other," said Anna Hines,
telecommunications business manager.
Although the department would like the system to go campus-wide, it wouldn't be forced on anyone who didn't want it or withheld from anyone who did, said Jan Weller, telecommunications director.
Robert Nunley
'it's the best thing since apple pie a la mode.'
professor of geography
"There are .individuals who don't want to be answered by anything mechanical, but weve aplains out of 150 users. Weller has."
Weller said she started voice mail at KU because of complaints about excessive telephone tag and garbled messages.
If J-TALK stays, the departments using the system would pay for it, Weller said. The system would cost an estimated $8 for installation and $2 a month per installation and $15 for testing the system receive it free.
Many businesses and a growing number of universities nationwide use a voice mail system, including two other Big Eight schools, the University of Nebraska and Iowa State University.
"We have almost all of our faculty on it, and most people have very favorable comments about it," said Ruth Micalechle, Nebraska director of telecommunications. "Most people would much rather get an answer from a machine than not at all."
J-TALK has reduced the number of daily calls secretaries in the department of geography handle from an estimated 100 to 30 or 40, said Mary Frances Lew, department secretary.
Weller said it was too early to tell whether the J-TALK voice mail service would be continued expanded after the trial period.
Nunley, professor of geography,
said, "Hopefully, the trial period will end in it being available to everyone."
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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration yesterday told Congress that it would not seek to control the federal tax support with federal tax dollars.
Controversy over whether to restrict content of federally financed art received extensive publicity last year because of two photographic exhibits supported by money from National Endowment for the Arts.
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As a result, this year's spending bill contained restrictions, pushed by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., on spending tax money on depictions of sadomasochism, homo-eroticism, the sexual exploitation of children or individuals engaged in sex acts and materials that lacked serious artistic value. The bill also gave a definition of obscenity within limits set by the U.S. Supreme Court. The restrictions were good for one year.
One, by Robert Mapplethorpe,
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John F. Frohmayer, chairman of the arts endowment, spelled out the administration's reasoning in testimony before the House Education and Labor subcommittee on post-secondary education.
"After much careful thought and discussion, it is our conclusion that the legislation proposed here which contains no content restrictions, along with measures discussed earlier, will best serve the American public," Frohmayer said.
Anne G. Murphy, executive director of the American Arts Alliance, which opposes content restrictions, said she was pleased by Frohnmeyer's comments but cautious as to whether the administration will succeed in keeping NEA free of such restrictions.
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