2008 Woodie Awards
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't Invade MySpace
Israel Salas
Issue date: 3/29/06 Section: Opinion
The prevalence of MySpace on campus computers is indisputable.
MySpace is an Internet chat community that has gained popularity over the past year as a site to keep in touch with friends by allowing users to set up personal web pages.
I seriously cannot recall the last time I didn't see MySpace on a computer screen on campus. Which brings up a curious proposition: what is the purpose of the computer labs?
According to the librarians, they are strictly for academic purposes only.
I was recently in dire need of access to a computer for academic reasons, only to find all labs filled to capacity.
And not to my surprise, several students were intimately sharing juicy details of the weekends fling-ding on MySpace, and then claiming they were doing research.
It is not fair to me nor any of my peers serious about their education.
If the computers were segregated into recreational and academic use, fine.
But they are not!
The school should address this issue in order to better serve students.
MySpace is an Internet chat community that has gained popularity over the past year as a site to keep in touch with friends by allowing users to set up personal web pages.
I seriously cannot recall the last time I didn't see MySpace on a computer screen on campus. Which brings up a curious proposition: what is the purpose of the computer labs?
According to the librarians, they are strictly for academic purposes only.
I was recently in dire need of access to a computer for academic reasons, only to find all labs filled to capacity.
And not to my surprise, several students were intimately sharing juicy details of the weekends fling-ding on MySpace, and then claiming they were doing research.
It is not fair to me nor any of my peers serious about their education.
If the computers were segregated into recreational and academic use, fine.
But they are not!
The school should address this issue in order to better serve students.
