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Meanwhile, the identimats are delivered and Harvard is going to use them somehow, palm prints or no. Students entering the dining halls will have to slip their bursar cards into the slot and push down on the machine, just as though their palm prints had been encoded, while the checkers check them off the old way. The whole business is worse than pointless--it's easier than ever to lend your card to someone else, and the dining hall personnel have the extra burden of supervising machines that are just there for show. People practicing on the new machines...
...thing is that Hall has reason on his side. If you ignore his less-than-deft handling of the whole affair and set aside the question of why he didn't simply tell the checkers to look more carefully at people's bursar card photographs, the Identimat plan begins to make a certain amount of sense. It's possible that Hall did his thinking on a purely financial basis and failed to consider anything else, but it's also possible that he decided rationally that the hand-print machines were ideologically innocent...
Baskin-Robbins came to Bow Street in the fall of 1971, with the class. Bursar's cards had photographic identification for the first time. The Lampoon went co-ed. The manager of the Club Casablanca, Govert K. van Schaik '62, was shot to death at the Club during prime drinking hours. The SDS still made news. Students continued to occupy administration buildings on campuses across the nation, and in April a group of Harvard students took over Massachusetts Hall for a week...
...University Food Service will require students at all Harvard and Radcliffe Houses to show their bursar's cards when they enter the dining halls until October 31 and periodically after that...
...could tell him advanced standing was an advantage. When he chose to stay four years, it was as if he had provoked some hidden beast, who rose up to strike him down. When he went to have a picture taken for his new bursar's card, they had no card for him. He had completed three years of school, and as an advanced standing student, he no longer existed...