Hi, I'm a student considering grad school in the fall at USM in spite of Thames' administration. I was listening to the WUSM recording of the hearing today, and tried to explain to my husband my understanding of Pileum's role in monitoring university emails, to which he chuckled and replied, "Pileum? Is that Latin for 'You're screwed'?" I looked up the Latin definition, and found:

pilleum, i n or pilleus, i n or pileum, i n -felt cap or hat (worn by Romans at festivals, esp. at Saturnalia, and given to a slave when freed as a symbol of his freedom); freedom.

How ironic that a company named for freedom operates in a manner that subverts and suppresses freedom! Just thought I'd share some odd trivia.