On November 8, 2012, two days after the election, Robert Jones spoke in Schneebeck Concert Hall about the role religion is playing in American politics and how it is changing. He started off by talking about the issues that voters valued in 2012, which were same-sex marriage and abortion. For the same-sex marriage initiatives, the results were the same percentage wise as public opinion polls taken right before the election. On abortion issues, people were divided on the legality of it, but only 15 percent want it illegal in all...

So what are you doing during class? Surfing Facebook or listening to the professor and engaging in the class? Chances are that if you are using a laptop during class, you are probably surfing the Internet instead of being engaged in the class. Some professors allow laptops in class, some ban them. There are many reasons to ban laptops in classrooms. Laptops detract from the learning experience. A study by the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts showed that students who used laptops during class remembered less lecture content than those...