Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the University unveiled plans for the new cards in 1974, it touted the cost-cutting potential of their magnetic stripe. But the stripe has yet to be used during the regular school year, and last week Widener dropped its plans for an automated circulation system that would have used the card...
...fleeting moment last weekend, the stripe edged toward a rendezvous with destiny. Because of the 1980 expiration date on faculty bursars cards and an inaccurate mailing list, some departed Corporation appointees received fiveyear I.D. cards...
...prevent fraud, the Office of Fiscal Services proposed equipment that can detect an annual validation code on the stripe. The machines could go in libraries, dining halls and health services, and cards would be validated after being checked against an updated name and address file...
Yesterday Gibson appeared to retreat from his two predictions made Friday. While insisting that the magnetic stripe is an "idea whose time has come," he also said that Harvard now has the flexibility to decide whether to reissue cards annually or use the magnetic stripe...
...Office of Fiscal Services tested its equipment for validating I.D. cards yesterday at Widener's circulation desk, where 10/80 holders were given a chance to have the stripe on their cards receive the annual validation code...