The Art History Newsletter

Generation TXT

by | 28 March 2006 | Teaching

Are you yet used to your students text-messaging during class? In the latest New York Magazine, one student reports, “There was not a lot that compared to the charge I would get when I’d feel my phone vibrate in my pocket during my medieval-art-history lecture and find a message like, just thinking about your fantastic tits.” Also from the Department of Interruption: a Tulane University police officer “responded to a call March 16 from [an] art history professor who reported four white males entered her classroom unannounced and began recording a boxing skit. When the professor approached the unidentified students, the one playing as the referee broke character and led the group out of room. The professor could not offer a description of the individuals.”