Many faculty "expressed concerns that our campus’s commitment to protecting the privacy of their communications is not demonstrated by Google and that the

Many faculty "expressed concerns that our campus’s commitment to protecting the privacy of their communications is not demonstrated by Google and that the appropriate safeguards are neither in place at this time nor planned for in the near future,” the letter said. So, it's a decision made based on FUD. Sounds like that's going to work out awesomely for them. Looks like they just want to move things back in-house for perceived control. That reminds me of a story about a major directory server at Georgia Tech going down regularly. The hard drive inside kept crashing on a regular basis. They restored backups, reinstalled software from scratch, and even replaced the hardware several times. It kept crashing until one day when a tech was out in the server room to restore it one more time. He found a technician working in the ceiling above on some sort of HVAC system. Below him was the server pulled out of the rack partially. The technician had been stepping on the combination of his ladder and the server itself to reach the unit he was working on. So, yeah, on-campus servers are way more secure than scary Google servers in the mysterious "cloud"...