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My outrage stemmed not only from the fact that getting too many emails is simply annoying, because also because I felt––and feel––that each club felt it was “doing something” by sending out a mass listserv. email copied verbatim from the original one; each club was so engrossed in itself that none cared about the apathy and disinterest that its email fostered for a legitimate cause. Dilution of meaning is a real phenomenon, and it is exactly what I feel happened then and will happen again in any similar instance. There are instances where clubs should send out school-wide emails: when something that they are doing deserves the entire campus’ attention. Like when The Continental (no bias here) publishes a new issue, when Yodapez is having a show, or when the Sunrise Movement announces that they are holding a climate strike. These are rare and relevant occasions that prompt campus-wide emails, and they are likely to be presently undercut in value and meaning by the fact that every student also receives club specific information regularly. So, do not get me wrong, each club emailing their respective members about something important makes sense, but when every student gets every email is when the problem transpires. Our campus is small, so posters in Commons and word of mouth do a great deal, and would reduce the number of emails. More broadly, there is an incredibly simple fix, and one that every other college than Hamilton seems to have adopted. At the beginning of each year or semester, students should receive one––one––email with a number of listservs to which they can subscribe. Thus, every student will only have to read messages meant for them. For now we are relegated to filter to mark as unread and delete and carry on, but I hope you will join me on my No Emails 2020-2021! Campaign.
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