This isn’t your parents’ college dorm

The Chicago Tribune reports:

At a time when college students bring more electronic equipment than ever to school, there is one item missing this year in University of Illinois dorm rooms: land-line phones.

For the first time in about 50 years, dorm rooms don't have working connections for land-line phones — which have joined ironing boards, boom boxes, hot pots and alarm clocks on the list of things no one brings to college anymore.