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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, August 21, 1998
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Smart cards have the same uses as the old KUID cards, including checking out library materials, accessing the dining centers and serving as identification at University activities.
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Also, the magnetic strip on the new smart cards allows students with accounts at Commerce Bank to use the cards as debit and ATM cards.
Brandi Wilhelm, Commerce Bank employee, said that debit cards could entirely eliminate student needs for checks.
"We can issue them checks with their accounts, but most students are opting for just the card," she said. "They get the security of the pin number, so if they lose the card, it is pretty secure if they don't tell anyone the number."
Commerce Bank is building a permanent branch inside the Kansas Union, but that site still is under construction.
Commerce employees will be conducting business at a table in the lobby during their regular business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Christina Konfras, Lincoln, Neb., freshman, said she was considering using the smart-card option with the account she had at Commerce Bank.
Wilhelm said the office had encountered only a few problems with the new cards but that some students seemed to be confused about the separate functions of the magnetic strip and the microchip.
"I'm thinking about doing it because there is easy access to the money, but I'm worried that if I lose it, people would have access to the money," Konfras said.
"The chip on the front of the cards has nothing to do with the bank." Wilhelm said. "Students are coming to us saying they have money in their checking accounts, but they can't get their cards to
"The chip on the front has nothing to do with the bank. Students are coming to us saying they have money in their checking accounts, but they can't get their cards to work in the vending machines. They don't realize they have to go to the cash-to-card machines."
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Only a few other problems have been reported throughout the University, mostly because of technical difficulties in the system.
"We don't have the laundry machines up and running yet," said Mary Ann Graham, manager of the University Card Center. "We have the readers installed, but they are still working on them. Students should be able to use them in the next couple of days."
work in the vending machines. They don't realize they have to go to the cash-to-card machines."
"The front-desk scanners work," said Frances Wales, safety security officer at Robinson Center. "We are still waiting to find out
Cash-to-card machines are at both the Kansas and Burge Unions, Strong Hall, Watson Library and Wescoe Hall. The machines enable students to put credit of up to $100 on their cards and use them in vending machines. Soon, students also will be able to use the cards with the laundry machines in the residence halls.
what the scanners are saying in the service center. We can still check out equipment, but we are having to write it down."
wales said she expected to have an explanation of the scanner symbols soon, which will make the equipment usable for the Robinson staff.
Another change made with the switch to smart cards is the elimination of fee stickers and bus-pass stickers on the cards. Instead, information will be electronically encoded in the card and available with scanners.
"we encode the chip on the cards each semester for people who buy bus passes," said Betsy Smith, sales representative with Kelly Services. "Everyone who signs up will have to get their cards encoded each semester, so people who get an annual bus pass will have to come back and do it again."
Students can get their cards encoded through 5 p.m. today on the sixth floor of the Kansas Union. After that, students still needing passes will have to go to the KU on Wheels office on the fourth floor.
Students still needing to pick up a smart card must go to the University Card Center, which is under construction. The center will be on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union near Alderson Auditorium but temporarily is located next to the SUA offices in the Union.
The cost of the smart card is $10, and students also must bring proof of fall enrollment and another piece of photo identification when receiving their cards.
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