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NYU Card:
A (New) Card for All Reasons

George Gilmore and David Ackerman

This fall, new NYU students, faculty, and staff will be receiving a different NYU identification card. It's the NYU Card, and it will place a wealth of outstanding academic, recreational, and service facilities at your disposal.

The NYU Card is a permanent card and needs only to be revalidated when an outdated label expires. Faculty, administration, and staff cardholders will receive new labels during the month of October. Students will receive new labels upon successfully completing registration and having been financially cleared by the Office of the Bursar.

On the NYU Card, you will find your Network Identification, or NetID. You will use your NetID, combined with a secret pass-phrase, to access many network information services at NYU. For example, any employee or candidate for a degree or diploma is eligible for an NYU-Internet computer account, which will provide ACF e-mail services, Internet access, and more. Your NetID will be your NYU-Internet account name.

In order to use your NetID and activate your NYU-Internet account, you must register receipt of your NetID and select your secret pass-phrase. For the present, faculty and staff do this at the ACF Accounts Office (305 Warren Weaver Hall), and students do it at the labs. In the future, you will be able to do it by accessing the URL http://www.nyu.edu/acf/start . You will then connect to a secure Web server, which will encrypt (encode) the information you enter for security purposes.

In the future, the magnetic strip on the back of the card may be used to store Library information, and the bar-code sticker would no longer be needed. The card could also be used as an electronic key to enter certain buildings with CardKey capabilities. When the cardholder inserts the card in an appropriate door, a central database would be accessed through NYU-Net that would check for permission to open the door. Finally, the NYU Card could be used as a debit card; the cardholder could add money to an NYU account and then use the card to purchase goods and services, on or off campus.

For the fall 1996 semester, the NYU Card will be given to all new students and personnel. Current students and employees may turn in their old cards for the new NYU Card. The NYU ID Center is located in Main Building, room 418. For more information about the NYU Card, contact George Gilmore at registrar@nyu.edu .

Posted 24 September 1996; revised 23 October 1996