Subject: Re: cellphone ban
From what I could see, it is a combination of a bit more monitoring the students (for enforcement), and some student attitudes of "it's like I'm in prison" (as if any of them would know what that was like). My campus wasn't closed (though many are today), but we had no cellphones. Today I would probably be like a lot of students ("prison!"), but obviously I couldn't miss what didn't exist when I was younger.

The main point of the article was that students appeared more engaged, and interacted more with others.