By The Runner Staff

California State University, Bakersfield is currently working on trying to get students a school e-mail to ensure that students get information not only from the college but from their teachers as well.
Though it seems like a good idea at first and it’s something students have been lacking, at the same time, it’s not something we need. How many people will use a school e-mail as well as their primary?
The decision was made to try and bring back an e-mail for CSUB students after being taken down about six years ago.
Though it sounds like a good idea to have a new Runner Mail, in all actuality, it is really not worth the trouble because most students won’t check it.
Many will just forget about it and only check their primary e-mail, so it will just be a waste of time to bring it back because that is same thing that happened the first time.
Sure, students can simply forward it to their primary e-mail and get all the information that they’re getting on their school e-mail, but if that’s the case why make it when we can just use our primary.
It’s just something that we don’t need.
If students are just going to forward it to their primary email and just ignore and forget the CSUB e-mail, then really what is the point of making one?
One potential benefit could be getting free services for being a student, such as receiving an Amazon Prime account free for a year because you’re a student. Sites such as Spotify will also cut a deal for signing up with a student e-mail, cutting their subscription cost in half.
We’re not saying that every student will not use it, in fact there will be students that will use both their primary and the school e-mail, but the majority will just forget about it or ignore it and continue using their primary.
This could even lead to students not getting some information, whether it’s a class getting canceled, assignment being moved to another date or not knowing about an event happening on campus because those students didn’t forward it to their primary account. So while it sounds like a good idea at first, it really can end up being an inconvenience for CSUB students.