Vox Populi led us to this report in the Hatchet about one professor’s desire to crackdown on the use of laptops in classes at George Washington University. On the one hand, it might not be a bad idea to dissuade students from using “Facebook, video-chatting and instant messaging” during lectures — how exactly does one video chat during a lecture without being disruptive? — but on the other, the professor instituting the ban is teaching in the School of Media and Public Affairs; this kind of networking behavior might end up coming in handy for students in that field. After all, if students at GW are looking to gain entry-level employment at any number of D.C. workplaces, Facebook, video-chatting, and instant messaging sounds like a lot of what they’ll be doing upon graduation anyway. At least between the filing.