Put Away That Laptop: Professors Pull The Plug

It was only a few years after colleges started requiring students to have laptops that some professors started banning them in their classrooms. Many professors say they don't want to compete with surfing the Internet, shopping for shoes, checking e-mail and Facebook. But it may be impossible to put that genie back in the bottle; kids are finding their way around even the cleverest efforts by campus IT departments to keep them off-line.