Student ID cards undergo facelift

College IDs got a new look this year when the College threw out the 12-year-old validines for a spiffy AT&T system called "Campus-Wide Access Solutions." The ONE card is equipped to handle debit-card like charging as well as the usual hall and dining hall entry.

The cards were a souce of problems early in the year because of delays in shipment due to the UPS strike. Students had to wait in long lines to get ID photos taken and then a computing problem didn't allow Residential Life to differentiate cards between co-op and on-board students.

In addition, the barcodes on the back of the cards were not compatable with the library's bar-code readers.

Temporary validines that were issued often didn't work.

Without differentiated IDs, many co-opers took advantage of eating in CDS dining halls.