By Cecilia Gutierrez |Staff Writer| Study rooms, laptop checkouts, a cellphone charging station and food/drinking amenities are just a few of the many services provided by John M. Pfau Library. Assisting students since 1971, the library is a $4.4 million project covering nearly 166,000 square feet of the CSUSB campus. On the library website, the division claims to be the campus hub for knowledge, research and technology. The library also strives to motivate and empower people to be lifelong learners and thinkers. In an effort to help students on their educational route the library, aside from its general purpose to serve as a center available for students to work on school … [Read more...] about Check out what the Pfau Library has to offer
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Get your head out of your phone and LOOK UP!
By Nailea Ayala |Staff Writer| “We are a generation of idiots. Smart phones and dumb people,” said Gary Turk in his YouTube video Look Up. Turk goes further to say that we have become slaves to technology. It won’t be difficult to go out in public and find a person walking and looking down at their phones, or sitting at home watching a computer screen for hours of the day. Places like concerts, dinner tables, and school libraries all seem to be popular places for people to be on these devices. But are they so necessary that we forget what it is like to interact with others? It seems that people now find it more important to record a concert to later show friends on … [Read more...] about Get your head out of your phone and LOOK UP!
Can’t keep your eyes off your classmates screen? Yeah, me either.
By Suu Elen Manzano |Staff Writer| I don’t think students should use devices such as laptops, tablets or cell phones in the classroom because they are a distraction to others around them. Just the sound of the click-clack-click-clack of a laptop’s keyboard sends me worlds away from the lecture at hand. Not all students pounding away at the keyboard are actually taking notes either. Some are catching up on Facebook, sending e-mails, instant messaging or playing games. The unfortunate sucker sitting behind him will likely get distracted while trying not to gaze into his peers luminous screen. “I don’t want students to get distracted,” says Dr. Derakhshan, professor of Strategic … [Read more...] about Can’t keep your eyes off your classmates screen? Yeah, me either.
Tablet devices waste of money and attention
By Alejandra Arana |Staff Writer| Tablets do not provide enough benefits for college students, plain and simple. I was researching which tablet to buy because I thought it would help with textbooks and other materials for my classes. As my search went on, I discovered that the tablets are best used by students for recreational use, not scholarly research. The most popular tablets out there are the iPad2 by Apple and the Kindle Fire by Amazon. Both of these provide the consumer with the ability to listen to music, watch Netflix and of course read books. The initial purpose of these tablets was to make books portable for the everyday person. Everyday people such as college … [Read more...] about Tablet devices waste of money and attention
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