Prevalent everywhere else on campus, laptops are taboo in many classes

By Katelyn Holm

Dr. Stephen Von Wyrick doesn’t mind if students bring laptops to class, as long as they sign an agreement promising not to check Facebook or watch YouTube videos during his lectures. Von Wyrick, a professor of Christian studies at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, in Belton, Texas, has had students try to do both.

“I give the students guidelines to their laptop use, but few take it,” Von Wyrick said. “In my classes, students are on-task because they know of my policy…”

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