Cell phones emerge from pockets and lockers when students text their friends, watch funny Youtube videos, or take “selfie” pictures of themselves. But cell phones also appear when students record experiments during physics, make videos for poetry class, or listen to music while studying.

The Upper School Council continued its discussion on changing the cell phone policy and met with the Upper School Discipline Committee on Nov. 19 to address the multifaceted issue. “Basically the meeting is about the consequences for using your cell phone in our hypothetical new policy,” USC representative senior Jonathan Sogin said.

The changes that USC is crafting are more relaxed than current policies. “We think that breaking the [new] rule[s] should result in harsher punishments,” Sogin said.

Other projects that the USC has had on the table in previous weeks include improving the student tutoring program and receiving feedback on the new schedule.

To read an earlier piece on USC’s efforts to revise the cell phone policy, click here.