Free laptop rental program launches in Student Union

Free laptop rental program launches in Student Union
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Students can now rent laptops for free in the Student Union, a project brought on by Mia Baybayan, student organization senator and student life committee chair.
There are 12 laptops in the machine – six Dell PCs and six MacBook Pros – available for students to use freely, so long as they don’t have any business holds on their account. To check out a laptop, students must swipe their valid Chapman ID card.
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The laptop kiosk was planned to be implemented at the start of interterm, but was not installed until last week because it took longer than expected to decide on which machine to go with, Baybayan said.
“The project kind of disappeared when senate’s term ended last year so I picked it up again last semester,” Baybayan said. “When I initially brought it up with senate this year, they were a little hesitant about funding such a large project, especially the biggest project of the semester.”
Student government funded $29,700 for the project, said Johnny Demshki, student government’s director of finance. Information Systems & Technology funded the remaining $20,000 and will cover the annual service fee and fix any issues with the computers and kiosk, said Mike Keyser, assistant director of the Student Union.
The project was originally proposed to cost between $30,000 and $40,000. The kiosk itself ended up costing about $30,000 and the additional purchase of each laptop made the total cost about $50,000, Keyser said.
“I think that everyone sees this is as a service that students can really benefit from. A lot of students have their own laptop, so it’s not necessarily supposed to provide like an ongoing laptop service but a lot of times people want to leave their laptops at home,” Keyser said. “There’s a convenience piece to that, or the fact that these are really new. They might even be nicer than some laptops that a student has.”
Shaden Beltran, an undeclared freshman, believes the kiosk is a beneficial addition for students.
“If we are paying for something and it’s going to go toward something that we are going to benefit out of, that’s definitely got to be less of a concern as to where our money is going,” Beltran said.
Not all students agree. Madison Schumacher, a sophomore integrated education studies major, said that due to the large cost, the kiosk was a necessary expenditure.
“A lot of people carry around their own laptops here, and we have all the computers in the library and stuff,” Schumacher said. “I think it would make more sense for them to invest in maybe more computer chargers, because I know that a lot of people don’t carry around their chargers and stuff like that.”
The Student Union does have computer chargers available for students to check out using their student ID.