Comment a bit premature to declare death... (Score 2, Insightful) 571
While larger schools may have incoming students with their own laptops, smaller community colleges and colleges with higher percentages of older/non-traditional students will still have need of the local campus computer lab.
I attend a small local college of about 1,200 students, many of which are former GM employees. Our campus computer labs are almost always very busy with people typing papers up and so forth. Our campus even utilizes the computer labs for some creative writing and digital photography classes.
It seems to me that your particular campus that is shutting down it's computer lab is not considering multiple uses for their labs. It may be they don't need it but still to me it seems as if they are under-servicing their students by not keeping such labs around.