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Senior marketing major Marissa Jambrone, uses her laptop
computer before class in the Jack Arends Visual Arts Building
Monday afternoon.

Laptops in class provide tools, distractions for students

By Hailey Kurth | February 5, 2012

On Elle Woods' first day at Harvard, she walked, notebook in hand, into a classroom of laptop-wielding students. In Legally Blonde, a laptop seems to be the utensil of choice; at NIU, some students feel differently. Sophomore marketing major Joey Wolfe...