Word: ids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stroke of midnight, East Berliners began coming through, some waving their blue ID cards in the air. West Berliners embraced them, offered them champagne and even handed them deutsche mark notes to finance a celebration (the East German mark, a nonconvertible currency, is almost worthless outside the country). "I just can't believe it!" exclaimed Angelika Wache, 34, the first visitor to cross at Checkpoint Charlie. "I don't feel like I'm in prison anymore!" shouted one young man. Torsten Ryl, 24, was one of many who came over just to see what the West was like. "Finally...
...schools will face legal liability if they have not taken steps to be prepared. The New York City schools now operate the eleventh largest security force in the U.S. Most city schools have locked doors; 15 of them use metal detectors; ten schools allow entry only with computerized ID cards. Cost of all the security: $60 million annually...
...thus suggest another system. First of all, we all seem to agree that any undergraduate with ID could reasonably be let into any dorm. Second of all, the reason that students let people in without checking ID is because it is a pain in the butt...
...house and freshman entryway doors be keyed the same. This ought to virtually eliminate legitimate requests for entry because all those who ought to have access will have access. This should be coupled with signs, posters and announcements inside dorms that anyone asking to be let in MUST show ID, and that all those with reasonable rights to access HAVE KEYS. This might provide problems with duplication of keys. This problem could be prevented, at a slightly greater expense by using nonduplicatable keys such as those now in use in the Chemistry labs...
...necessary to check ID's to prevent rapes, then we should check all ID's. The Security Office is not sitting on its butt, notwithstanding the remarks that Vice President and General Council Daniel Steiner '54 has made. Constructive suggestions are welcome and absolutely necessary, but no security system can keep out a man who is let into a dorm by students and then walks into an unlocked dorm room. True good sense must be exercised by both students and administrators, and this will only be true when these crimes are prevented. Jeffrey Dorfman...