TERRE HAUTE —
Traffic swelled along the streets inside campus this weekend, as thousands of Indiana State University students brought the latest in technology back for the fall semester.
Inside the rooms of Lincoln Quad, the sisters of Alpha Phi sorority were already at work, employing social media as a tool in this year’s recruitment efforts.
Stephanie Binnie, a junior, explained how members were using websites such as Facebook and Twitter to begin this year’s rush activities. Meanwhile, inside the group’s room, about 40 members sang along to the melody of their sorority’s song, learning it by reading the words emblazoned on a PowerPoint presentation.
“We’ve connected our computers to the TV to conduct PowerPoint presentations,” Binnie said.
Her mother and father attended Indiana University and the University of Indianapolis respectively, she said. But her room as seen this weekend might have seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie had they happened onto it more than 20 years ago. Wireless printers and scanners remained unpacked alongside a box full of DVDs, and Binnie sports an Android smartphone. And while music remains a constant for college students, there were no CDs or cassette tapes to be seen, let alone vinyl.
“No,” Binnie laughed. “I don’t have any CDs.”
Down the street inside the ISU Recreation Center, music of all genres was blaring unknown to anyone but the individual listening.
Sophomore Candace Cutler was moving full speed on a Life Fitness elliptical Sunday afternoon, watching television on the screen attached to the machine. Overlooking the facility’s pool, the merchandising major seemed oblivious to the Offspring song which played overhead.
“I like the more dubstep stuff,” she said, pulling out the earplugs attached to her iPod. That particular genre features mash-ups of bass sounds, she explained. “It just makes it easier to work out to.”
Meanwhile, Brandon Pickett was jamming to Lil Wayne while performing old school dumbbell hammer curls in front of a mirror. His iPhone strapped to his body, he had switched songs while working out, and said technology has changed every aspect of education these days.
“Everybody has a laptop,” he said, noting he brought a MacBook Pro back to school this semester. “Nobody’s coming without a laptop.”
His parents graduated from Purdue and ISU back in the mid-1980s, he said, contrasting the contents of their dorm rooms to his own.
“They didn’t even have computers. They just used pencils and paper and books. Books are pretty much obsolete now,” he said, returning to the hammer curls — which remained about the only thing unchanged from yesteryear.
Brian Boyce can be reached at 812-231-4253 or brian.boyce@tribstar.com.
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Team: A team of Indiana State University students (green shirts) assist incoming students with computer set-up for the campus system during student arrivals Saturday afternoon.
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Tech trip: Indiana State University student Janine Phelps of Covington (right) tends to digital business during a walk across campus Saturday. Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter
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Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter Alpha Phi: Alpha Phi member Stephanie Binnie, a junior, said on Sunday that her sorority is using social media to recruit new members to join the ranks of the women living in a suite in a Lincoln Quad stairwell.
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Muscle: A group of Sigma Tau Gammas from Indiana State University help move an incoming student Friday afternoon.
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Tuned in: Indiana State University sophomore Candice Cutler of Noblesville, Indina listens to music as she does her workout at the Student Recreation Center on campus Sunday afternoon. Tribune-Star/Bob Poynter
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MP3: Indiana State University student Blake Doughty pumps iron in the recreation center while listening to his MP3 player Sunday afternoon.
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Technology: Indiana State University students cross campus carrying laptop computers and cell devices during Friday's move-in on campus.
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Toning tunes: Indiana State student Brandon Pickett listens to music as he works out Sunday afternoon at the Student Recreation Center.
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