Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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No other hassle is more widely shared among students than that of identification, more specifically, proof of II). Want to gel into a basketball game? Got to have an 11) card with a current fee receipt. f ootball admission? Better have an II) card, although it doesn’t always have to be your ow n. Without |() the individual cannot cash a check anywhere in the city of Corvallis. In fact, you can't even become a student without first having a student body card. Time and again the word is sent hither and thither that OSU is the “scholarly and friendly campus, that students are treated w ith individual concern. The student body identification card, a plastic laminate key to open a myriad of doors, is as necessary to survival as bread and beer. The message is homey, but not always true. Kach student has a number of identification, lor any information logo to the numher. more numbers are needed. Housing Code: 16-1 nir.wliK t n»n-Spri op

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GaicttcMes Moumuji nW m s IlniH a iro a :3£i . 0,1 Sn Z. T ' ,;KV, ,l t Kidd. Liberal arts slighted at OSU, evaluation say An evaluation report on the College of Liberal Arts in the Spring described the faculty of the College as “second class citizens” of the U niversily’s academic community. The evaluation, conducted by a six-member board of visitors, was made at the request of University President Robert Mac Vicar. MacVicar said he sought the evaluation to provide the same kind of examination of liberal arts that is periodically made of the professional schools on campus by their accrediting bodies. MacVicar said the findings of the panel were unflattering to the college and the president. I don't think it is true that the faculty of CLA (College of Liberal Arts) should feel like second class citizens; they're not. There is nothing second class about anything done in CLA. MacVicar said. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Gordon Gilkcy. said. I hadn't heard a word about second class until I picked up the document (report).” But there were other reactions to the report, some emotional. Chairman of the department of religious studies. C. Warren Hovland. said. While we (the liberal arts faculty) are doing a good job of teaching, our contributions are not being appreciated”. I). Jay Doubleday. chairman of the department of political science, said. People in the College of Liberal Arts perceive themselves to be second class; not in competence but in status and resources. According to the report, The altitude of the central administration is believed to be unsympathetic if not actually derogatory toward the CLA. The report asserts there arc serious obstacles to bringing in new blood which could give a renewed vigor to the instructional program of the College of Liberal Arts. Salary w as also a point of dissatisfaction; the faculty of CLA are paid the lowest average salaries in the University, yet teach a larger number of credit hours than the teachers in the College of Science or the professional schools, the report said. Dean Gilkey said the report gave outside. insights to our opportunities for growth. Introduction-Spring' 15

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Arc you a 15 or an II? Major: I’m an 81. how 'bout you? Year of graduation, birthdatc. drivers license number, auto tag number, phone number... And the hassle goes beyond campus. Want to buy beer at the lav’? l ine, but have handy a card issued by the Oregon l iquor Control Commission. To get the card, three pieces of identification are needed, all with documented proof of age. Phoney II) raised quite a flap in the tavern circle early in the year. Fears that minors using altered, forged, or borrowed II) toentcr “lounges’’, and the same minor gelling caught with fake identification in the tavern by theOLCC could result in the closing of the pub and or fines of up to $2,000. As precautionary measures, most of the Corvallis drinking establishments required an OLCC card or two other pieces of II). This was one case w here even your student hodv card couldn't help. Numbers are to blame for the caution: ORS 471:135 and ORS 471:143. Oregon Revised Statutes to the salvation. Introduction-Sprinp'17