I agree 100%!  With security issues the way they are today, wouldn't it make
sense to be more "security-minded" here in this university also as they are
in almost every other business around town and across the nation?  I would
think it might be important to have everyone have to update their ID card
every year so that the Campus Police and anyone else, would have a current
photo ID of anyone "claiming to work" here on this campus.  There should
also be some way of having a "current" date displayed on the card so that
someone from years PAST could not just walk onto this campus with the intent
of wrong-doing.
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Dr. Anthony J. Steinhoff writes :
>>>> With due respect to Marcia Noe's noble desire to maintain her old ID
card (ah the glories of youth), I would suggest that all faculty/staff
should be required to obtain a new ID. First, this should be a professional
looking university ID, not a silly MOCS card.  While it may be desirable to
give the staff/faculty ID the same capabilities of a MOCS card (this is
easily accomplished via the magnetic strip) we need a form of ID that
clearly identifies us as employees of the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga -- especially when we are visiting other universities.  The
current card design does not fulfill this simple, but very important
function.  [At some other university libraries, for example, it is necessary
to present a valid ID from your university to get access.  Only in the fine
print on the BACK of the current ID is there any mention of UTC].
   Secondly, while the university has eliminated the illegal practice of
using the SSN as a form of student identification, it continues to use it
for faculty/staff members.  Thus, the is SSN prominently displayed on our ID
cards.  Lupton library also uses the SSN as a patron identification number
for faculty and staff.  Isn't it about time in this age of security theft
that the university develop an alternative system for employee
identification, just as it has for students.  After all, the laws governing
the public use of SSN numbers applies to us in the same measure that it does
to students?


Dr. Anthony J. Steinhoff
Assistant Professor, Modern European History Department of History
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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