Students to get new IDs

By JENNA NIELSEN / The Collegian

New ID cards are being issued to all students, and many seem to like the new features but aren’t sure why they are getting the new card.

The University Key Card Office is in the process of re-carding the entire campus. All students will be re-issued a new card, according to an e-mail sent to students and an ad printed in The Collegian.

Freshman Laurie Leoffler said she likes the new card design, with the fountain instead of the clock tower in the background, but she said she still doesn’t see the need for the news cards.

“I like the picture a lot, but I don’t understand why we have to get a new one. If it is just because they changed the picture, I don’t see the point,” she said. Leoffler said she got the e-mail telling her to pick up her new card but that it never said why.

Key Card officials declined to comment without authority from director of environmental health and safety David Moll.

Political science major Maral Kochayan likes one of the other new features on the card also.

“I like that the new cards have our student ID number on them. It is really helpful. But if that is the only change, I don’t see why they went to all that trouble to issue us new cards,” Kochayan said.

The noticeably new features of the card are the background of the university fountain and the student’s ID number on the back. Additional special features of the new cards are unknown.

Engineering major Ryan Strength is glad students are receiving the new cards.

“I like them. My old one is worn out, so it is good we are getting new ones,” he said.

But Strength also said he didn’t understand why he needed to get the new card, though he said he was happy with the change.

Public relations major Cari Goodrich said she is also happy with the new card.

“I had to get a new card last semester because mine broke,” Goodrich said. “The best benefit is the ID numbers on the back, and the process was simple. I was glad I didn’t have to take a new picture,” she said.

Students have started picking up their new ID cards on the main floor of the University Student Union.

They will be available for pick-up between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. An e-mail from the Key Card Office requested students bring their old ID card to exchange for the new one.

After next week, students can pick up their new cards from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Key Card Office, located in the Keats building, Room 103.

In the e-mail, the Key Card Office said it is important students pick up their new ID card as soon as possible because the old one will expire on March 1.

For more information, call their Key Card office at 278-2172 or 278-5608.