San Francisco -- The University of San Francisco, a Jesuit university, has long endured gibes from callers who have found its"666" telephone prefix anything but heavenly.
In the Book of Revelation, the number refers to a beast with “seven heads and ten horns” that some scholars believe represents the Antichrist.
The prefix is being changed from"666" to"422,” but not out of a desire to banish signs of Satan from the campus. Rather, the university is running out of extensions, a spokesman said. The new exchange, he said, will double the institution’s numbers, to 6,000.
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