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service and, ultimately, God.
“It’s all part of the climate of hav
ing to escape something,” he said.
A recent study of 1,300 college
students from eight different college
campuses backs up Lewis’ claims
that high Internet use can provide
harmful side effects. Researchers at
the Troy, N.Y.-based Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute found that
nearly 10 percent of respondents
said the Net is affecting their grades,
sleep time and social interactions.
Keith Anderson, a staff psychol
ogist at Rensselaer’s Counseling
Center, said Internet dependence is
the same as a dependence to any
other substance. As the student
uses the Internet more and more, he
or she withdraws further from
school and social activities.
“Eventually you see students in
teract with others less and become
less social,” Anderson said.
The reasons for online addiction
are easy to trace, he added. Colleges
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nationwide are racing to build
wired campuses with faster con
nection speeds and more academic
services online, which has become -<
a selling point to prospective stu
dents. Students are spending more *
time on fast and easy services, in
eluding class registration, distance
education classes and class assign
ment Web pages, such as the Uni
versity’s Blackboard pages.
Anderson warned that there is
not always a correlation between
high Internet use and online de
pendency because “some of the stu
dents manage quite well when their
lives become unbalanced, (and)
some students cannot.”
He added that Internet addic
tion is so new, many victims may
not recognize inordinate online
hours as the cause of their anxiety
or depression.
“They don’t identify the Internet
as being part of the problem,” he
said. “Nobody is coming out say
ing, ‘This is ruining my life.’”
Ron Miyaguchi, outreach coordi
nator for the University’s Counseling
and Testing Center, agreed. He has
not seen any cases of Internet de
pendency so far. But Miyaguchi said
his case load might increase in the
next few years as Internet use grows.
“This is a very new medium. It
has the potential to be a big phe
nomenon,” he said.
The Counseling and Testing Cen
ter offers a set of group discussions
and outreach services on a passel of
different topics. So far, he said,
there have not been any requests for
Internet dependency groups.
Brooks Harrop, a University
sophomore studying biology and ^
neuroscience, spends an average of
two hours a day on the Internet do- »
ing non-academic work.
“It doesn’t detract from my
courses or studies,” he said. “It’s a
utility. People use the microwave a
lot, but they probably don’t know
how much they use.”
However, Harrop thinks Lewis
may have a point with MediaDetox.
Harrop knows a few people who he
thinks have a problem managing
their time on the Internet; however,
Harrop agreed with Anderson that
these people probably wouldn’t ad
mit they have a problem.
“People being addicted to the Net
is a pretty new issue, and the prob
lem is that they won’t believe it,” he
said. “It took years for people to start
talking about the harms of cigarettes.”
Meanwhile, Lewis said he will
keep plugging away at raising
awareness of Internet dependency.
His discussions on the media will
run every Wednesday until the end
of the term. He is also considering
alternative ways to reach students.
He said his patience will perse
vere.
“I think I may be ahead of the
curve,” he said. “I have a sense of
what it will be like in 10 years.”
E-mail Pulse and features editor
John Liebhardt at
johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.