Editor,
I am concerned about the meat-ax approach taken by the Information Technologies department to reduce the amount of paper used in the computer pods. They say that 80 percent of the students print less than 250 pages per semester. Have they divided the use factors between undergraduate and graduate students? Graduate students doing research are likely to have a greater need to print things out.
Also, if someone is printing 50,000 pages, wouldn’t it be simpler for them to find out who they are and limit their access rather than punish all of the students? After all, they are the IT department. We have to have an identification to get on the computers and to print. Why not use this information to find those who abuse the system and leave the rest of us alone?
Stuart Kupferman
UNM student
