Customs on campus Professors attribute part of the problem to students with short attention spans who expert to be entertained; if they're not having fun, they get angry and disruptive .Educators also say they are seeing more customer-oriented students, those who come to college expecting to be catered to. A lot of students feel they can come to class whenever they feel like it and do whatever they want because they 're paying tuition, said Dr. Stacey Jurhree, "I remind them that when I buy a movie ticket, I don't have the right to go into the theater and turn on my radio." Some students blame boring teachers, large lecture halls and long classes for incivility. Often, they say, professors are too wrapped up in their lectures to notice when students are reading magazines or talking. "You'll go to these classes, and professors talk in their monotone voices; they don't make it interesting ,some even just read out of a textbook," said Rachel O'Nell ,a senior at Southern Methodist University , who admits occasionally reading the school newspaper during class, though she said she never opens it up.