C'mon. Everyone is bitching about DST. Let's really just admit time is an illusion* and embrace it! I say we just insert an extra hour every weekend (and never "give it back"). I also propose a single timezone for the whole world and using a 10 hour day (metric time). But I'll settle for an hour inserted every weekend.

*Lunch time double so.

"sports nerds"?!?! Where are we that this phrase shows up on slashdot?? That's a major oxymoron.

It is too much to hope, but what is this eliminated the use of timezones? One global clock to rule them all!!

pyrocumulonimbus

We've been discussing this at my campus, and one major argument for requiring laptops is that then students could use some loans with tight restrictions on what can be purchased (maybe Pell grants? I don't know the specifics)--ie only required materials. So if the university requires laptops, then perhaps students who would not otherwise get the laptops could. The issue regarding if it is appropriate to increase student dependence on student loans is a whole 'nother one...