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University should donate old computers, programs

Do any of you know what happens to all of the old computers that Purdue gets rid of when it up grades every year or two? I would have thought that some would go to charitable organizations in the community. However, when I started to volunteer at Imagination Station (it's a miniature Children's Museum here in Lafayette), I was surprised to hear that they had requested many times used computers but never have received a simple bit of hardware.

Now I thought that it was just their organization, but every charitable organization I have visited has received very little or no technological donations from Purdue. I say that Purdue, an organization of higher learning, has an obligation to help a place like Imagination Station, whose goal is to benefit the education of children.

So I challenge whomever has the power to help out organizations in the community because it will help all of us.

Kevin Grant Fouts
Sophomore, School of Technology

 

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