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As a student, I'm pretty mortified on the very rare occasion that I've forgotten to silence my phone and it rings out loud in class. Almost any halfway respectful student would scramble to turn it off and minimize the disruption.
Picking up the call and then talking right there in the classroom is so far out of the realm of what I'd consider normal or acceptable behavior that my initial reaction was totally in support of the professor.
That said, I can't think of any good reason why he couldn't have simply thrown the kid out of class for that day. I've had professors who were very serious about not being disrupted, and they were able to maintain very silent and studious classrooms by just making it clear from the start that if you weren't there to work, you weren't going to be staying.
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