I would like to give advice on computer lab policies across the campus. A growing trend of late has been for students to begin using cellular phones. Costs to own a cell phone have decreased in the past few years. As a student, I've noticed that while in the labs, cell phones have increasingly begun to ring while students are working on projects. These rings can be very loud, but not as loud as the conversations that the students can have with their callers.

What I'm mailing about is this that libraries have policies that keep noise levels to a minimum while people are studying in them. This policy is designed to allow a student to read or study without disturbance. A lab, in many ways, is like a library — students utilize labs most often for homework, among other projects.

Perhaps it would be in the student body's best interest if the Center for Academic Computing asked students to keep noise levels down and cell phone conversations out of the lab.