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From notebook to iBook; laptops fill classrooms
According to a study, 99 percent of students said the Internet is important.
By TOREY VAN OOT
Contributing Writer
Look around a lecture hall and it is unlikely to see every student furiously scribbling notes in spiral notebooks. Instead, there will probably be a sea of tech-sawy students typing away on iBooks, Dells and Gateways.
Although many students and professors embrace the integration of technology into the classroom, most agree that a "wireless" academic setting can create a myriad of distractions for students and classroom management problems for professors.
There is no question students today consider the Internet and computers vital resources in everyday life, especially in the fields of education and communication.
According to research conducted by Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for
Communication, 99 percent of students consider the Internet important
Three-fourths of students polled described the Internet as a very important tool in their lives.
Although Cole said the Internet can be considered an "extraordinary educational tool," allowing classes to explore and leam together, he recognizes some of the drawbacks to a wired classroom.
In 1999, when Cole was a teacher at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, his department “wired” every seat in every classroom and required every student to have a notebook computer. He said they quickly found some teachers complained, requesting that restrictions be placed on student-laptop use during lectures.
Music industry Professor Jerry Del Colliano said he also sees the growing relationship between technology and the classroom as an opportunity for students and professors.
He said about 10 percent of his students use laptops regularly in class: he even has students who
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Vigil honors Rosa Parks
Three students from the USC chapter of the NAACP read a biography about Rosa Parks.
By JOSHUA SHARP
Staff Writer
Students and community members gathered Thursday night at Tommy Trojan for a candlelight vigil in memory of Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist who inspired a Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott and died Oct 24 at 92.
Andrea Fullington, a junior majoring in sociology and African-American studies, delivered a speech she had written.
“Rosa sat so that we might stand,” she told the crowd of about
30	people, adding that Parks was a model in “her actions, her bravery, her life.”
Then she asked, “So what is it that you stand for?"
A poster with a picture of Parks adorned the front of Tommy Trojan, the base of which was surrounded by dozens of tea candles.
Ryan Jackson, vice president for the USC chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a junior majoring in communication, led the event.
“How are you making an impact?” Jackson asked as individual candles held by attendees were lit. “Think about it when you pass this light."
A biography of Rosa Parks was read in three parts by members of the chapter, which sponsored the event.
Publicity chair Adeola Olagunju, a sophomore majoring in political science, said that the only word Rosa Parks ever spoke in refusing to give up her seat on the bus was “No."
Shareea Butler, head of the education committee and a junior majoring in psychology, said that Parks “galvanized a generation" of activism.
“The important thing ... is that (Parks) was an incredible woman embedded in and supported by an incredible movement," said chapter
president Gintt Clayton, who recently became a member of the national
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Lasorda discusses drugs in baseball
Lasorda said he thought the new penalities for steroids would help but advocated a zero-tolerance policy.
BY JUSTINA LY
Contributing Wnter
Tommy Lasorda. former Los Angeles Dodgers manager, spoke to more than 100 students in Annenberg Auditorium Thursday night about “Steroids, Sports and the Role of Government"
Lasorda participated in a Q-and A session with students, answering questions ranging from the federal government's intervention in steroid investigations to the new drug policv approved last Thursday by Major League Baseball owners
Lasorda told the audience that while he managed the Dodgers, he did not see any players take steroids But when he left management he saw plaren getting bigger
"You can't get that big from eating pasta." Laaorda said.
One student asked Lasorda his opinion about government involvement in the rtermd investigation The government should be
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Play ball. Tommy Lasorda. former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, discussed the use of stenods and his Italian heritage Thursday evening
Remembrance. Gina Clayton, president of the USC NAACP chapter and a member of the natfonar board of directors,
lights an array of candles for the Rosa Parks vigil near Tommy Trojan. The vigil included poetry and a biography.