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Utah university looks to do more with ID card

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Students at Utah Valley University, the new name of Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah, will soon have an ID card that will work as a Visa debit card as well as a bus pass. The new cards will be available in July when the university’s new name takes effect.

The school is collaborating with Utah Community Credit Union, where 20% of the student body has an account, to offer the Visa cards, according to the Daily Herald newspaper in Utah. The card cannot be used as a credit card.

“We’re trying to make it a more campus-wide and campus-accepted card as well as publicly accepted, too,” said one university official.

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