April 7th, 7 - 8 p.m. in "The Pulse" in the University Center.
Community discussion of so-called "game-playing addiction."

Dr. Jerald Block will lead a community discussion on so-called "game-playing addiction" with students from Forest Grove High School and members of the Pacific University Gaming Club. Dr. Block is a leading authority on compulsive computer use, pathological computer use, and "Internet addiction." In addition to numerous lectures and papers on computers and pathological computer use, Dr. Block has testified before the FCC and the California Senate on issues ranging from illegal file downloading to pornography and the Internet. He has presented papers in Korea and in China. He has also recently published a psychiatric forensic analysis on the shootings at Columbine High School. For a seat at the presentation, call the Berglund Center at 503 352 1466.

Upcoming Roundtables

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
The Berglund Center Roundtable series will start off the new semester with Martin Ringle, the Chief Technology Officer at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He will reveal what Reed learned from the Kindle Pilot Project, where a number of students were given a Kindle DX in lieu of Textbooks.

All roundtables will be held from noon until 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time zone unless otherwise noted.