Telephone & Communications

Each resident is given a personal code that must be entered when making an external call. This code allows the staff to track calls. Calls will be charged directly to the student’s account each month based on telephone use (local and long-distance). Long-distance calls made from the campus through the Italian telephone system are more expensive. Students are encouraged to use a prepaid phone card available at local tabacchi shops to help minimize telephone costs. The Europa card is among the prepaid cards recommended. Phone cards are for international calls and often cannot be used for local calls. Generally, American 800 numbers cannot be accessed from international locations. Calling cards purchased in the United States often will have special directions for use overseas; however, 800 (not 888 or 877) numbers sometimes may be accessed by dialing 880 instead of 800, at which point you will be charged for the international portion of the call instead of it being toll free.

Calling from Bernardi

• To call someone outside the campus: Dial your personal code, then “0” to get an outside line and then the number you are trying to reach (begin with 001 for the United States).
• To call someone inside the campus: Dial the phone extension of the room you are trying to reach (see Telephone Directory).
• To reach a staff member, dial 9 or 501. The campus does not have a direct incoming dial. Callers must go through the main switchboard and be transferred to the student’s room; however, if the main number is not answered (during evening hours), a voice-mail message in English and Italian will be received, and the caller may enter the phone extension of the room of the person they want to reach. The call will ring directly to the student’s room.

Students should provide family and friends with their phone extension, which is the same as their room number, and remind them of the time difference (Rome is seven hours ahead of St. Paul, Minn.). Staff is not responsible for locating students around the residence to accept incoming calls. Students may provide the director’s cell phone number (333.464.0946) to parents for back-up emergency contact.

Photocopies

A copy machine is in the front office. Copies cost 5 cents each and may be purchased at the front office. (Multiple copies may be added to the student’s account.) Students must ask the staff person on duty to operate the copier; it is not selfservice.

Faxes

Faxes sent to the student through the school will be put in the student’s mailbox. Outgoing faxes to Rome and other places in Italy are €3, each. Faxes sent outside Italy are €5 cents each. Charges will be added to the student’s account, or they can be paid directly at the front office.