This is one of those circumstances where something is happening that appears
foolish and you do not know who to contact to raise that issue. This may or
may not be the appropriate forum in which to express my concerns but here goes
anyway.

I teach a night class in Metro 160 and have been surprised at the technology
upgrades in that room; a powered screen, computer with flat monitor, optical
mouse, etc. In short, all the instructional technology we would all like to
have in our classrooms. So what's the problem. This room has chalk boards and
is regularly used for math classes where instructors actually use the boards.
The room is either never reasonably cleaned of chalk dust, or the instructors
use an impressive amount of chalk because I cannot set anything in the room
without carrying out chalk dust, to include on my clothing. The point that I
am trying to make is that someone will in a very short time be amazed at what
chalk dust can do to disk and CD ROM drives. Of course the other equipment
will suffer as well.

Would it not be more prudent to install white boards before we permanently
damage the reasonably expense equipment that we are putting in this room. I
would like to be able to use the equipment more than part of a semester.

Richard G. Hogan
Criminal Justice

Richard G. Hogan, Assistant Professor
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga