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As a person who knows student callers, I would like to clarify this situation.  These are not poorly trained college students; they are trained for between one and two weeks, then after making practice calls, they go live.  They get better at their job through experience talking with alums and asking for donations.  By not picking up, you are not allowing the students to do their job and ask you to help support your university.  If you do not care about your university, then pick up your phone and say you are not interested.  If you do not want to receive calls from your alma mater, then just say please put me on your do not call list.  This may take one minute, a lot less time than it took for you to write out your posts and the time spent being mad for no good reason.  Who cares about leaving messages?  Then you would complain about them taking up your answering machine with long messages.  No one is "drumming" up anything.  They are doing their jobs and trying to support their university, which you clearly do not give a sh*t about.  In fact, I would bet both of you spend a lot of your days bitching and crying about many things, when you should really just get off your as* and do something about it.  If you don't want the calls anymore, read the above again and stop being an a*shole who rants about phone messages and "poorly trained" college students when you really should take a long look in the mirror and stop being a detriment to society.  Both of you need to get a life.