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College asks students to power down, contemplate (AP)

December 26th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Aggregator

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In this Dec. 14, 2009 photo, Stephens College students send a text to the college president before turning the phones off and turning them in during vespers on the college campus in Columbia, Mo. On a bitter cold December night, with the start of final exams just hours away, Stephens students grudgingly piled their cell phones into collection baskets and filed into the school's chapel for the first of what Lynch hopes are regular vespers.(AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)AP – Dianne Lynch wanted to give the students of Stephens College a break from the constant digital communication that pervades their generation. So she asked them to put their phones and computers away and revive the 176-year-old school’s dormant tradition of vespers services.

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