From the Daily Cal.
… I actually dropped a class at the beginning of the semester because the professor wouldn’t allow laptops in lecture.
But I do admit that the professor had a point. Most of the time, Microsoft Word is minimized with Facebook or Gmail taking its place. The problem is that this is distracting for everyone who can see the screen. For some inexplicable reason, indirectly Facebook-stalking a random stranger is much more intriguing than the atomic mass of uranium…
March 9th, 2009 at 1:06PM
NU professor drops student
Many years ago, Fred Basolo taught Gen Chem at NU. He played football for Illinois, I believe and was about 6′ 4" – a big guy. I once saw him climb into the middle of a lecture, pick up a newspaper reading student and drag him over to a (brick) wall. He slammed him into it and when the crumpled student got up, he informed him that he should leave the class and never come back again.
I wonder what he would have done to a student using a laptop?
March 9th, 2009 at 1:37PM
> I wonder what he would have done to a student using a laptop?
Perhaps something like this?