Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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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

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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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It could stand for very dangerous. Or it could mean Valerie Doe. the girl you took to the house dance last term. But it really means enerial Disease gonorrhea and syphilis. A popular poster blatantly proclaims “VI) is nothing to clap about T referring to the slang lor the disease. But the warning went unheeded in Oregon last year. According to the final report of the 1974 VI) Task Force for state of Oregon. Benton County ranked 16th in 36 counties w ith 163 reported cases. With a rate of 266 per 100.000. only one reported case was not gonorrhea in the county . There were nearly 1.000 more cases of venerial disease in the state from 1972-1973. In the county, there was an increase of 77 per cent in the occurrance of YD. The Benton County Health Department reports that one per cent of the OSL student population either has now or has had venerial disease. The Benton County rate is two per cent, the Oregon rate is five per cent. Nationally, one-fourth of the cases of VI) fall into the age group of 15-19 years. That means that 20 per cent of the high school class ol 1973 should have VI). By the time they reach age 25. one-third would have had it. IS • Introduction-Spring