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The University of Iowa becomes another university to abandon traditional paper sports tickets, opting instead to electronically add the tickets to students’ campus cards. The change-over will begin with the school’s basketball season this winter and continue into football the following year.

All season tickets for the student sections will be distributed electronically onto student campus cards. Game day ticket-takers will use handheld scanners to check the electronic student tickets stored on their ID cards.

This will save the university’s printing costs plus the hours spent distributing the tickets. Now, students will only have to remember their IDs to get into the games.

Students without season tickets will still be able to buy single game passes for the student section if they’re available. Those tickets can be printed off or picked up at the window on game day and presented at the gate with a student ID.

Students will also be allowed to go online and transfer their ticket electronically to another student’s ID.

Read more here.

Four New Hampshire college students from three schools are suing the state, seeking to block its enforcement of the amended voter registration law. The League of Women Voters is also involved in the litigation.

The students believe changes to the law could discourage out-of-state students from voting in New Hampshire.

The amended law requires voters to sign a statement declaring they are subject to all laws that apply to residents. That includes “laws requiring a driver to register a motor vehicle and apply for a New Hampshire driver license within 60 days of becoming a resident.” This could “freeze out” some eligible voters, such as visiting college students, the suit claims.

The lawsuit asks the court to either block enforcement of the law or to rule that voters who plan to leave the state in the future aren’t required to register their cars here, according to information provided by the League of Women Voters.

Students from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, Keene State College, Keene, and Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, are listed as plaintiffs in the suit.

The voter identification law, passed in 2012, also requires a photo ID beginning with the November election.

Read more here.

After a year’s worth of planning, the new Owl card at New Hampshire’s Keene State College is set to be launched with a new look and new features, including usage at vending machines and on-campus restaurants and access to the school’s recreation center and library.

The card also enables students to check their balances on line and also to report their lost or stolen card.

One of the problems with the old card is that for many students their facial features and name had worn off. It was getting “harder and harder to prove that the person holding the card is the person it’s supposed to be,” said a school administrator.

To prevent this wear and tear in the future, the new card has double lamination.

At the gymnasium, students and faculty have to swipe in. This was put in place to prevent non-students from getting in. “If someone doesn’t have an ID, we can ask them to leave,” said Lynne Andrews, recreational sports director. “If the card is so beat up and worn off, we will tell them to go get a new one,” she added.

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Use it or lose it pretty much sums up on-campus meal plans at most universities. If a student doesn’t use all their meal plan dollars, the left-over money usually reverts to the school. That’s true in Auburn University’s case where the money from a sweep of unused dining dollars is being used to improve the dining experience for its students.

According to the school’s student newspaper, the Auburn Plainsman, Auburn students leave an average of just 2.4% of their meal plan dollars for dining services at the end of the year, compared to the national average of 10%. That still amounts to a chunk of change–in this case, about $376,000–that can be used to bolster the school’s dining opportunities.

Students can expect new options like Joann’s home-style cooking, with its expansive salad options, Chick-n-Grill’s three new Greek options; two new food trucks and additional Asian and home-style options.

John Waggoner, interim dining director, said the left-over money will also be applied toward debts related to Tiger Dining. “We use whatever revenue from the (Tiger dollars) sweep to go back to paying for the dining experiences,” Waggoner said.

These changes were made to make the campus more appealing to students, he added. “If dining is offered on campus, it makes the students more likely to sit and eat a sandwich and study rather than leave campus.”

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Computer security doesn’t begin with the IT department at universities. It starts with students and their personal computers.

Every year, the college IT department has to deal with an influx of new and returning students with laptops, desktops, smart phones and tablets, all needing to connect to the campus network.

That’s why campus IT security personnel would like students to know a little bit about security risks and how to keep the college networks and the students’ own computers safe.

“This generation is the ‘click’ generation,” said Justin P. Webb, an information security officer at Marquette University in Milwaukee. “Essentially they are quick to react to something interesting on social media before thinking about the consequences.”

He said that often “a single click on a malicious link is sufficient to infect a computer and the most glaring problem is that student computers remain infected for long periods of time without intervention.”

Marquette provides incoming students with an information packet regarding IT security and acceptable-use policies, a practice more schools are adopting.

But there are some basic security practices that Webb and other IT security personnel wish students knew before they powered up their computers in their dorm rooms for the first time.

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Now that a judge has upheld Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, more schools are moving to ensure their students will have a proper ID that will enable them to vote in the upcoming election. That involves making sure students are equipped with a photo ID with an expiration date.

The Pennsylvania branch of the Public Interest Research Group had reported that just 15 of the state’s 110 universities provided a photo ID that show the holder is a current student.

Some of the schools that already meet the voter ID law requirements are Villanova, Lafayette, Temple, Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania.

Challengers of the new law had argued that it would make voting more difficult for the elderly, minorities and students, who are less likely to have the most commonly used form of state IDs.

Commented one community college administrator: “We have a long history of encouraging civic engagement on part of students.” He said all new students will receive IDs with expiration dates.

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Members of this year’s freshman class, most of whom were born in 1994, prefer to watch television everywhere except on a television, have seen a woman lead the U.S. State Department for most of their lives and can carry school books–those that are not on their e-readers–in backpacks that roll.

Beloit College in Wisconsin has issued its annual Mindset List, something it has produced every year since 1998. The list provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. This year covers the class of 2016, members of whom have never needed an actual airline ticket or a set of bound encyclopedias.

The class of 2016 spent much of their lives helping their parents understand that you don’t take pictures on film and that CDs and DVDs are not tapes. In these students’ lifetimes, with MP3 players and iPods, they seldom listen to the car radio. In fact, a quarter of the entering students already have suffered some hearing loss.

For this generation of entering college students, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead. Freshmen should keep their eyes open for Justin Bieber or Dakota Fanning at freshman orientation.

The Biblical sources of terms such as “Forbidden Fruit,” “The writing on the wall,” “Good Samaritan,” and “The Promised Land” are unknown to most of them. Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes American Royalty. If they miss The Daily Show, they can always get their news on YouTube. On TV and in films, the ditzy dumb blonde female generally has been replaced by a couple of dumb and dumber males.

The complete list can be accessed here.

Protecting yourself against ID theft probably isn’t even on a college student’s to-do list. Yet, young adults aged 18-24 are among the last to detect identity theft when compared to other age groups. It took them 132 days on average to spot it, and their average loss was roughly five times more than the amount lost by other age groups.

According to the same report from Javelin Strategy and Research, last year, 11.6 million American adults were ID theft victims, a 13% increase over 2010 figures. Losses totaled $37 billion,.

The Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona has issued some steps students can take to protect themselves while on campus.

Higher One Holdings is seeking a buyer and has contacted private-equity firms, said three people with knowledge of the discussions, according to a Business Week report.

Higher One is using Goldman Sachs Group to canvass potential buyers, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is private.

Ken Goff, a Higher One spokesman, said it’s the company’s policy not to comment on “rumor or speculation.”

In May, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group said in a report that campus debit-card programs sometimes charge fees that are “unnecessary and unfair” and that the companies use “aggressive” marketing.

Earlier this week, Higher One released a statement that it aims to make its checking account fees and terms more transparent and simpler for consumers to understand and that it would follow recommendations made by the Pew Charitable Trust that calls for financial institutions to standardize their disclosure forms.

Read more here.

The International Student Identity Card that serves as an ID and discount card for millions of students can now also be used as a prepaid debit card thanks to an agreement with MasterCard.

The card is now accepted anywhere MasterCard is and it also offers text message alerts. It provides an easy way of purchasing necessities abroad. Fraud protection and online monitoring is also part of the package.

The card itself costs $25 and doesn’t need to be connected to a bank account.

According to the International Student Identity Card Association Web site, the card is the only internationally accepted proof of full-time student status. It is endorsed by organizations such as UNESCO and is recognized by universities, academic institutions, student groups, national governments and ministries of education. The card is used by over 4.5 million full-time students in 120 countries.

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