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Monday, September 17, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i04/04a03101.htm Chapel Hill Seeks Best Role for Students' Laptops Requirement yields savings, but educational gains are evolving and hard to measure By FLORENCE OLSEN Forty freshmen lift their new laptops when an instructor asks them to locate two small openings, or jacks, on the computers. She warns the class that last year about 800 students -- nearly a third of the freshman class -- plugged their modem cables into the spot where the network cables were supposed to go. After that mistake, 800 laptops had to be repaired. "So I want to be reeeeally clear," the instructor cautions. "Silver, bigger -- network jack. Black, smaller -- modem jack."...
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