These experiments could eventually lead to introduction of an extensive, computerized system of bursars card readers in dining halls, libraries, and other University facilities, such as the University Health Services and the Indoor Athletic Building.
--February 9, 1976
Lines at Mem Hall Spur Reevaluation of I.D. Card Tests
Mutilated bursars cards and defective encoding equipment slowed students' progress through registration lines yesterday, and the director of the office of social services said late in the afternoon that he will reconsider plans to validate the magnetic stripe on every student's bursars card.
The director, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, had ordered the encoding to enable the administration this spring to test equipment designed to limit access to University facilities.
But through the day Gibson's staff in Memorial Hall was hampered by break-downs of encoding hardware and by torn and bent cards that became jammed in the machines.
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