In the School of Journalism and Mass Communication there are Internet and technology based classes, but you're only required to take those if you're a News-Internet major. Our staff works with Macs every day, but none of us, maybe with the exception of our online editor, could tell you how they work or how to fix them. There's a certain amount of knowledge about them that we should all have. In the student body officer debates, there was talk of the Palm Pilot program for incoming students. It's a great idea, but the limited amount of technology that exists on this campus should be improved and mastered before we begin discussing adding different types of technology.
Drake is a great school.
Drake would be a better school, though, if it prepared its students more thoroughly in the field of technology. The opinions in the above are written by the staff members of The Times-Delphic. Editorials reflect the instutional opinion of the newspaper based on current staff opinions and the newspaper's traditions. These opinions do not necessarily reflect those of individual employees of the paper, Drake University, the individual colleges or the student body. All other opinions appearing throughout the paper are those of the author or artist named with the column or cartoon.