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Article #252UT "Internet Addiction" workshop makes the news
From: Prentiss Riddle
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:00
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Forwarded message: ! Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 22:38:31 -0400 (EDT) ! From: Educom <educom@elanor.oit.unc.edu> ! To: "EDUCOM Edupage Mailing List" <edupage@elanor.oit.unc.edu> ! Subject: Edupage, 17 October 1995 ! ! ***************************************************************** ! Edupage, 17 Oct 95. Edupage, a summary of news items on information ! technology, is provided three times each week as a service by Educom, a ! Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities ! seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. ! ***************************************************************** ... ! UNIVERSITY SPONSORS INTERNET ADDICTION WORKSHOP ! The University of Texas at Austin's Counseling and Mental Health Center has ! sponsored a workshop on Internet addiction. One attendee's father made her ! leave her modem at home when she left for college, but she admits she sneaks ! around and borrows her friends'. Only six students turned out for the ! program, but a counselor attributed the low turnout to the use of the word ! "addiction" in the workshop title. "Next time we probably wouldn't word it ! that way," she says. (Chronicle of Higher Education 20 Oct 95 A21)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 126c00,1cb7cf4d4184fca7,start X-Google-Attributes: gid126c00,public From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) Subject: UT "Internet Addiction" workshop makes the news Date: 1995/10/19 Message-ID: <199510190337.WAA07957@brazos.is.rice.edu> X-Deja-AN: 117805701 approved: eff-austin-moderator sender: daemon@zilker.net x-unparseable-date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 22:37:47 -0500 (CDT) organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc. reply-to: eff-austin@zilker.net newsgroups: austin.eff