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Rofessors, Students Glimpse Future with E-Mail Assignments 14,1 The Battalion • Page 3 ®fliesciay • April 4, 1995 __ _ rofessors, students glimpse future with e-mail assignments tov^By Nikki Hopkins cation tool between professors and stu­ tem disc that allows them to access the Center help desk. «. ^merkiJnE Battalion dents is becoming a trend for many de­ department fileserver, or hard drive. “A lot of professors want comput­ s, onii_ partments on campus. By using icons on the Macintosh erized homework but they don’t give ome college courses might echo Visiting Professor Tom Parker in the screen, students can transfer a docu­ students good instructions,” Sum­ with an audible groan from stu­ architecture department said his de­ ment into Starr’s reserved file. mers said. “If the professors want dents on the first day of class as partment is installing 20 new comput­ Starr said he saves all the student students to use the technology, they e professor announces that every ers this year that will enable students files on one disc and takes them need to get down here and use the |tudent will be assigned an e-mail ad- with an access identification to log on home to grade. systems themselves.” ess and all homework will be turned the system and communicate with their “I can write more on what I want to Summers said a lot of businesses say through computers. professors faster through e-mail. tell the student,” Starr said. “The beau­ they use on the Internet because they The use of computers as an educa­ Parker said using computers and ty of this is no matter how many papers want to be known as companies on the tional tool has gone beyond word pro­ discs instead of conventional hard copy I have to grade, the last paper is always cutting edge of technology. cessing at Texas A&M and has become assignments have advantages and dis­ as legible as the first.” “In reality, they probably have one a means of communication between stu­ advantages. Starr said the days of writing out an guy who knows how to use e-mail,” he dents and professors. Parker said an advantage of comput­ assignment first, then typing it and said. “So any student who has Internet I Dr. Richard Schaefer, an associate erized teaching is that professors can turning it in are long gone. skills is going to be very hireable.” professor of journalism, said he teaches drop any information they want stu­ “Professionally, time is your greatest Dr. David Paradice, associate profes­ one class where he has attempted com­ dents to have on the server at any time, enemy,” Starr said. “On the computer sor of business analysis and research, puterized homework. without the restrictions of office hours you can almost type fast enough to keep said more e-mail addresses are appear­ Schaefer has his students send or class time. up with your brain.” ing on business cards. [heir assignments as well as any “The disadvantage is that I can’t take The next step in college computer “A few years ago it was novel to see questions or comments about the a drawing and write on it or make cor­ teaching may be computer notebooks a fax number on a business card,” pass to him by e-mail. rections.” Parker said. “The images are that students can take to class, carry in Paradice said. “Now everybody has “It is an incredible headache some- so much smaller on the computer screen the car or use at home. one.” es,” he said. “But in the long run it than on a large piece of drawing paper.” Today’s college students may not Paradice said he thinks computeri­ ally helps my students.” Dr. Douglas Starr, a journalism use this technology in school, but col­ zation is going to continue to grow in Schaefer said he spends up to four professor, said he edits papers on a lege students five or 10 years from education without replacing the hours a day replying to students over computer because ink corrections now might. classroom. The Internet. made on his student’s papers are a Paper and pencil may not be re­ “It’s better for students to see a pro­ Schaefer said he doesn’t like his stu­ source of complaint. placed, but the computer is definitely fessor work out problems on the chalk­ dents to turn in homework on discs be- “Red ink is more than they can emo­ making an entrance into education that board than to simply see an answer matic ause of the risk of computer viruses. tionally handle,” Starr said. “Once stu­ will change methods of learning and materialize out of nowhere,” Paradice i the el “I call it safe communication,” he dents get the hang of a computerized communication. said. “We want to use technology Stew Milne / The Battalion eels1 Said. system they tend to like it better.” Brett Summers is a student con­ where it makes sense, not just for the Dr. El-Shinnaway uses e-mail and a portable tube, Using the computer as a communi­ Starr said students are given a sys­ sultant at the Remote Computing sake of using technology.” laptop for teaching her BANA 439 class. linati ourners crowd late Tejano singer’s funeral following Friday’s murder CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — With a 2- zlement accusations. “Dar su apoyo,” he finished, meaning “Giving There’s so much emptiness now,” said Jimmy A. foot-high stack of white roses atop her casket, Selena Quintanilla Perez’s burial drew about their support.” Gonzalez, the marketing director at Selena’s Cor­ Tejano music queen Selena was remembered 600 relatives, friends and music industry people More than 30,000 fans from across Texas pus Christi recording studio. Monday for her laughter and inspiration to fel­ to a grave beside a freshly planted mesquite tree streamed past Selena’s casket during a public visi­ “There’ll never be another Selena, I tell you low Mexican-American musicians. in a new section of Seaside Memorial Park & Fu­ tation Sunday, many of whom had journeyed from that. She had everything in one package,” he I “She would want everyone to go on, including neral Home. all across Texas upon hearing the news of Selena’s said, adding that one of her most memorable i area her fans,” said Don Shelton, backup vocalists in Without words, Selena’s brother, bassist and slaying at a budget hotel where she had gone alone qualities was her laughter. testirj her band, Selena y Los Dinos. “She would want award-winning songwriter Abraham Quintanilla III, to meet Saldivar. “That’s all she was about — laughter. She tcted if leveryone to treat every day like a new day and embraced her guitarist husband, Chris Perez, before Accordion player Candyman Tovar, now with never said anything derogatory about anybody,” hope::1 hold their heads up.” the brief prayer service began. the Texas Latino group, remembered that two he said. rate, I As services took place, prosecutors prepared Afterward, beginning with Selena’s mother, years ago he was nervous before a performance at Tejano music — a blend of traditional Mexi­ irmai formal murder charges against Yolanda Sal­ Marcella Quintanilla, the mourners each placed the Tejano Music Awards by his former group can styles with German polka — has been in :alth Ef divar, a 32-year-old nurse from San Antonio who a white rose on her casket until it was stacked “Culturas.” Texas for decades, called “La Onda” (The Wave) Be. founded the Selena Fan Club and became a per­ more than 2 feet high. Selena arrived to soothe his jitters, he said. and Tex-Mex at various times. .341. sonal assistant to the emerging star. “We’ve really appreciated that at a time like “She said: ‘We’re here together, brothers and In recent years it became known as Tejano — Police accuse Saldivar of shooting the 23-year- this everybody is ...,” said one of Selena’s uncles, sisters, and we’ll take care of each other,”’ Tovar meaning Texan. Selena’s career, which began at old Grammy-winning singer minutes before Sal­ Eddie Quintanilla, before pausing to switch into said. age 9, propelled the sound well beyond this state, divar was about to be fired Friday amid embez­ Spanish. “We feel like we’ve had our hearts ripped out. where one in four citizens is of Hispanic origin. 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