TV in Dorm Room?

D_yer_Maker
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:07:54 +0000

Laptop + some DVD boxed sets of favorite TV shows = TV with lower power consumption.

I wouldn’t encourage the isolation that TV watching entails and I wouldn’t allow a TV in a dorm room if I were a Czar of Residential Life at a boarding school.

From the school’s perspective, a TV isn’t more insidious than a laptop. But, from the student’s perspective, a TV adds nothing that a laptop doesn’t offer. A TV draws lots of power. It could present an electrical/fire hazard. No TVs. A laptop has some educational value. Yes to laptops.