Laptops are becoming a fact of life at colleges, according to this article, but not everybody is enthused. As University Business summarizes it, "requiring a laptop in every backpack ignores economic realities and drives a wedge between rich and poor. And even if all students could afford a laptop, some professors say, it's likely to be used more for downloading music than deconstructing Dante." Still, despite the downside, the tenor of the article is that those colleges that require laptops would not reverse their policy. "Everybody in the community talks with each other more frequently," says David Brown, a professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. "Students run into trouble, they e-mail one another, e-mail the faculty. The whole culture changes."
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