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...like most of the students at Harvard, your I.D. card is just a 2 in. by 3 in. slip of plastic with a picture you'd rather forget, a nine-digit number you wish you could remember, and a little black stripe that serves absolutely no purpose...
...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...
...bursar's card merry-go-round began to revolve in September 1974, when the University unveiled its all-new bursar's card with the machine-detectable identification stripe. A brouhaha arose immediately over the use of Polaroid Corporation cards, which are used to make identification passes in South Africa. Gibson said at the time that Polaroid had been chosen because no other companies could make a card that would accept encoding...
...millions of Americans expressed disgust with politicians of every stripe and party, Congress at last was forced to try to make the elections clean-or at least cleaner. The result was the ambitious, complicated, confusing and inconsistent compromise that was signed into law on Oct. 15, 1974 by President Ford...