With the recent requirement for Penn State students to change their user ID passwords for access to PennState's electronic media such as Webmail, Angel and eLion, I just thought I'd take a minute or two to vent my frustrations about this new, ridiculous concept.

First of all, why regulate students' password security? It should be up to the student to change his or her passwords if he or she chooses to do so. If someone wishes to share his or her password with someone else, let them. It's obvious that this whole ordeal is only meant to show the administration's depth of control over the student population. Why else would they waste valuable man hours in the IT department and valuable research dollars on advertising. It's no wonder our student governing body was overthrown last year, and we have no influence on any of the formal decisions made by this administration because they know that no matter what, there will be 43,000 people handing over thousands of dollars in tuition the next year.