Take Facebook off campus

University classrooms have become dangerously infected with a Facebook pandemic of catastrophic proportions. For those in doubt, take a glance at the nearest girl sitting around you in class with her laptop out. Probably browsing through pictures, recapping a night she doesn’t remember, while your professor is teaching and the class is trying to have an intelligent discussion.

Facebook is not a legitimate tool in the University’s quest to build tomorrow’s learning environment. If students are unable to restrain themselves from updating us about an episode of “Friends” they watched the night before to “feeling sleepy” in the middle of class, then the University should consider taking official measures to rid classrooms of this pestilence. Blocking the site from wireless Internet access points would be a logical solution to quarantine classrooms.

Impolite students, particularly freshmen who have been severely contaminated with this disease since early high school, will be forced to learn how to respect their professors. Our eyes will no longer be burned by virtual Bourbon Street and people might start to participate in class. By sterilizing our campus, the University would set a national precedent by curing the plague of unnecessary online social networking. Action needs to be taken before another generation is hopelessly lost to this epidemic.

Frederic Behrens
Senior, Mequon, Wis.
International Business