While I was more than happy to comment for Andrew Kimball’s February 16 article ("Got Internet") on Albion’s substandard internet service, I seem to remember The Pleiad running a story about the same subject last school year. However, Kimball’s article remains relevant, and more than a year later, Albion College is still choosing to make excuses rather than solving the problem.

We don’t need a task force to study the problem. We don’t need creative diversions from the problem. We need more bandwidth, period. You can throw around excuses about being economically conscious, but the simple fact is that without a major upgrade, we are not providing to students the services that are expected at a reputable residential college. Our commitment to technology on this campus has been beyond shameful, as our IT department continues to not be given the resources required to make this campus technologically viable.

And while it’s nice that the school is claiming that their network is being shaped so that educational uses take priority, we as students who are forced to live on campus as part of college policy have no other option for non-academic internet usage. When something as simple as watching a Tigers game or a missed episode of "Heroes" cannot be performed over the internet on campus, we have no right to claim ourselves as technologically up-to-date. Yes, the solution to this problem will be expensive, but we’ve been hearing excuses for too long. One can only hope that the school will show the proper leadership so that students will not have to read about this problem for a third consecutive year.