In this few years, Internet has become an important tool for campus life. In fact, I use Internet to register classes, research for class materials, and contact to classmates and professors. CSUS allows students and faculty to access Internet almost anywhere on campus. According to Public Affair Department Home page, CSUS was ranked one of the nation's top 200 most "wired colleges.” Also, “CSUS now offers more than 30 Web-based classes each semester and more than 150 other classes feature websites with interactive quizzes and other features. The CasperWeb service provides online access to student records, personalized academic progress reports, financial aid information and more .” This brings lots of positive influences on school activities involving students and faculty. For example, faculty can show some websites during classes to give further information about class materials. Or Wireless network allows students to access to Internet to research about a discussion topic. Of course, expanding wireless network on campus makes school activities more convenient and efficiency for students and faculty. Some people might feel anxious without accessing to Internet at least once a day. Due to this expanding wireless network, students are now able to access Internet whenever they want regardless of their purposes. However, not so many people are ware of its negative impacts on the way we participate to classes. I see many students who use their own laptops in classes. Surprisingly, among those students, there are a few people doing things that are not related to the class material such as e-mail, online shopping, or netsurfing during class.

These students do not seem to participate in the class. This is not only problem in CSUS. Actually, Ian Aryes, a professor of law at Yale University , shows his concern about impacts by laptops on students' participation to classes. Professor Aryes mentions that “seeing the person in the next seat playing a video game while you are trying to puzzle out a law question is demoralizing.” They might give the excuse that they were researching information for the class discussion or the class was just boring. Nevertheless, the use of laptops during class affects their participation in the class and changes the way they pay attention to an instructor, classmates, or the class itself. Also, using laptops could disturb other students' participation to classes. I have two reasons why I have a front seat in my classes; one is I am not able to see well if have a seat too far, and the other is that I do not want to see the screen of classmates' laptops. Last semester, in one of my classes, there was a classmate who was using his laptop during class. He had a seat in front of me, so I had to see the screen of his laptop every time I look at the professor! Even I do not want to see, it was in my sight. It was actually very annoying because his screen always showed something was not related to class material. I understand in some classes it is easier to use a laptop to take notes, but in my opinion, laptops should not be allowed during class, except for taking notes, and neither should cell phones. I appreciate CSUS has focused on its efforts to enrich school activities. However, I think that not only CSUS, but all Universities and colleges that have wireless network on campus should be concerned about its impact on students' participation to classes.