Once again, Residential Life and the Division of Information Technology are seeking to turn on Wi-Fi in the residence halls.

For obvious reasons, we’re in support of the idea. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we think it should be a top priority.

Residential Life was working down to the wire last year to ensure that all incoming students had a place to live. DoIT is constantly busting its butt to restore the Internet whenever someone sends it an upset or passive-aggressive tweet whenever MizzouWireless is down.

Obviously, both departments have their own respective issues to figure out. So while we are in support of the idea, we would understand if it was put on the backburner for the time being.

With the Apple product “suggestion” in the School of Journalism, students often purchase iPods and iPads. Both of these products require wireless technology to access the Internet, and this cannot be done with an Ethernet cable. Until wireless technology is in all of the residence halls, students can easily combat this problem by walking down the hall to the floor lounge.

Also, we encourage the residence halls to keep Ethernet cables as an option if the wireless idea comes to fruition. These cables offer a much more reliable connection, making Internet functions like online quizzes for class, Hulu, YouTube and Skype exceedingly speedier and more secure.

Another fear that we have is that all students would be required to pay the fee for this expanded service. For those of us who don’t live in residence halls, this supplemental fee is seen as nothing more than wasteful and annoying.

The lucky ducks at Schurz now have the opportunity to enjoy wireless Internet for the time being, and we have a feeling all students living in residence halls will be able to enjoy this luxury in the very near future. It would definitely be a nice selling point for the university be a 100 percent wireless campus.

That said, we are happy Residential Life and DoIT have taken students’ rising reliance on the Internet and technology into account. This progressive approach is something we’d like to see implemented throughout campus, so other departments should look to this as an example.