Listening Lounge offers brain food
By Daniel Oliveira
Daily Forty-Niner
Although music continually blasts from
the speakers at the University Student Union's Music Listening Lounge,
some Cal State Long Beach students are not exactly rocking out to their
favorite tunes there.
Instead, they are doing math homework,
reading books or working on class projects. Others are sitting on the tables
and couches where they relax and listen to songs.
"It's just a form of concentrating and
knowing what you have to do," said Karen Miramontes, junior, a communicative
disorders major and Spanish rock fan. "If you're concentrating on reading,
you donít pay attention to the music."
Although listening to music while studying
is a personal preference for some students, there are scientific theories
that try to prove individuals comprehend more information when they listen
to music.
CSULB psychology professor Kenneth Green
said music could enhance a studentís arousal level, which in turn, increases
the individualís ability to study.
"These people may simply be under-aroused
to begin with, so they may need the music to get them aroused enough to
study," Green said.
Giovanni Hortua, the lounge disc jockey,
said students request mainly hip-hop, heavy metal, R & B, punk rock
and classic rock bands.
He said the lounge is the place to be
if ìyou just want to get your [school] stuff done and relax while you're
waiting for your [music] request."
Students can request up to three songs,
free of charge, from the loungeís 500 compact discs. The songs are played
in the order they are received, Hortua said.
The lounge also offers private rooms with
their own compact disc players, which cost $1 an hour. Students can play
their own compact discs there or pick up one from the lounge catalogue,
Hortua said. |
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