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...Jerrold Gibson '51, those bursar's cards mean big business, and that little black stripe holds the promise of saving Harvard thousands of dollars...
...events this week made painfully evident, Harvard has a long way to go before it can reap any benefits from its new I.D. cards: Technical difficulties forced Gibson, the director of the office of fiscal services, to abandon his plans to encode the magnetic stripe on each student's I.D. card...
...Gibson's decision also makes it virtually impossible for him to follow through this spring with college-wide tests of equipment designed to limit access to University facilities...
Faced with the prospect of long lines at registration caused by a check of each card against the computer print out, Gibson yesterday added plans to allow students to have their cards validated throughout this week at Holyoke Center...
...Gibson said last Friday he does not expect students to object to using card readers on campus because, he said, the readers are already used by banks and charge card companies. In addition, he said, "the advantages to limiting access so outweigh the inconveniences" that he believes students will accept installation of the readers...