Picture Distortion

I chose this picture because I find it funny that such an established institution would lie to make people believe they are diverse. I mean its a college with an enrollment of about 30 thousand students, so obviously they are going to be diverse. This photo originated at a Wisconsin football game which was taken in 1994 and used for a poster in 2000. I guess as the years go by we don't get smarter, we possibly might be just getting dumber. I mean if we think that by adding a person of African American decent into a picture shows our campus is more "diverse," than maybe we are not as smart as we claim to be. So the manipulation in the picture is the adding a black student, seen smiling at the game, and it was manipulated to show campus diversity. I believe this manipulation was not harmful for the reason that I do believe Wisconsin has students of all race. After all if you had not know that this student was just cropped in, one might not even recognize him.

Wireless On Campus

Trinity University was voted in the top ten for being one of the best wireless campuses in the US. I believe that this is a good thing for the university considering how big of a role technology plays in our every day life. Personally, I use the wireless network very seldom. My first semester I would bring my computer to Writing Workshop at times when we were asked to. I found the internet to be as big of a distraction as one would let it be. We normally brought in our computers to do research on a topic for our paper that we were in the process of writing. I usually started off looking up research but later faded towards surfing the net and just cruising around on facebook. What I really do enjoy is how all the teachers put up lecture notes online which makes it quite easy to follow along if the student just wants to bring their computer to class. I have thought about just starting to bring my computer and nothing else because it is just as easy to take notes on the computer as it would be to write them down, possibly even faster and more efficient. To some it may also make the sometimes dull classroom more enjoyable by multi tasking, by taking notes and looking on the internet for other information. For more feelings on wireless campuses just follow my link.