Switch to Gmail: ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’

Publication Date: 11/05/2009

Salutations comrades! In regards to the possible change of e-mail service by the distinguished Purdue University, why have no comrades addressed the 1-ton bear in the room? No corporations meet our demands; there however is a simple solution.

To meet the needs of students and staff alike, a single-payer public option e-mail service should be mandatory. To make things more streamlined, services will only be available Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding Thursdays past 2 (for vodka drinking) and federal holidays. Anyone who uses more than the allocated 10 e-mails per day is greedy, so we will implement a mandatory quota. I propose a plan where higher-level students are given a quota of 20 e-mails, but they must be forced to donate five of those e-mails to the lower, undeveloped students each day. After all, a rising tide lifts all boats. I also feel that 1.44 MB of data per day should be sufficient for any student. If we all share, we can rise together.

Christian Borchert

Junior in the College of Engineering