in other news, abilene christian u. sees spike in applicants

Incentive to apply to some obscure school

Posted by Kelly on Feb 29, 2008 - 12:06 pm

Ever heard of Abilene Christian University in Texas?  Yeah me either.  But I predict that Abilene will see more and more applicants in the upcoming semesters due to their new policy.  An iPhone for every new student!  The idea is for students to use them to do in-class quizzes, receive homework assignments, navigate the campus, and even check account information.  How Utopian.  Are they actually expected to refrain from texting, IMing, downloading music and tv shows?  This is reminiscent of Duke’s plan a few years ago to give every student an iPod- a program which has now changed to provide the gadgets only for a select group of students in a particular program.  Regardless, Abilene Christian University is certainly making a name for itself- and I can’t help but wonder if they have a grad school program I would be interested in…