Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, July 29, 1997, Page 3, Image 3

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    Card: Convenience draws customers
■ Continued from Page 1
cafeterias in the Hamilton, Carson
and University Inn Residence
Halls. Hammy’s fast food in
Hamilton and Pizanos Pizzeria in
the Bean Residence Hall are also
options.
Babcock said he believes the
DeDuck Program is a success and
said that adding the EMU vendors
will strengthen it.
“I think we will see a signifi
cant increase in the dollar value
when the EMU is incorporated,”
Babcock said.
The use of DeDuck accounts
has transcended what housing of
ficials hed intended.
“We designed this program for
a supplement to the room and
board program,” Babcock said.
About half of the people with
DeDuck accounts live off-campus,
which exceeded expectations,
Allen said.
The convenience, low cost, va
riety and amount of cafeteria food
is what draws the customers.
The EMU and Housing will be
making an additional change for
c<We designed this program
for a supplement to the room
and board program. ??
Fred Babcock
Housing Food Service Director
the coming year.
Housing will do all future cam
pus catering. This will eliminate
the overlap of the two systems.
Upgrade: Much memory necessary
■ Continued from Page 1
Taylor, who uses MacOS 8 when at work, recom
mends that Macintosh users upgrade to MacOS 8,
but with “many caveats.”
“You really need to consider whether it’s a viable
option,” Taylor said. Taylor said, users who are
thinking of upgrading will need 100 MB of hard dri
ve space. They will also need to have at least 12 MB
of physical memory and either a CD-ROM drive for
the installation CD or an ethernet connection to
download the installer program.
For Macintosh users without an ethernet connec
tion, they can buy the CD-ROM version of the in
staller at the University Bookstore for $20. The CD
£CYou really need to consider whether it’s a
viable option.
Steve Taylor
Microservices Student Assistant
ROM version of the installer can also be checked-out
from the documents room (Computing Center Room
205) when it becomes available.
A floppy diskette version of MacOS 8 will not be
available from the Computing Center.
New licenses help catch 50 impostors
■ DMV: The new licenses are
much more difficult to abuse
because the holder’s photo
stays on computer record
The Associated Press
SALEM — The new credit-card
style Oregon driver’s license al
ready has helped police catch
more than 50 impostors
statewide.
The impostors might have
avoided detection had the state
Driver and Motor Vehicle Ser
vices agency not undertaken a
computer modernization project
that was scaled back after $74
million in cost overruns.
The driver’s license, law en
forcement officials say, is per
haps the most widely accepted
piece of identification. It’s used
to verify everything from the au
thenticity of checks to see if
somebody is of drinking age.
“All you had to do before was
steal somebody’s checks and ID,
go to the DMV, and say they lost
their license,” said Oregon State
Police Capt. Jim Stevenson.
“This new system should start
cleaning up the number of false
licenses out there.”
Only two decades ago, Oregon
driver’s licenses were made of
paper and did not have a driver’s
photograph. But in 1976, the
state began issuing laminated li
censes with color photos.
Still, even that license was
abused, ranging from minors
rewriting their ages to people ob
taining licenses using other mo
torists’ names.
The new, nearly tamper-proof
digital license introduced in De
cember is solid piece of plastic,
just like a credit card.
There are no laminated layers
for forgers to separate to insert a
photo or change the information.
The surface of the new license
also contains various difficult-to
counterfeit holograms, said DMV |
spokeswoman Natalie Barnes.
1
The license’s most important si
new feature, officials said, is that |
the driver’s photograph is stored I
on computer, making it quickly
available to agency officials or
police.
Although the system is not
foolproof, a person seeking to re
new a license or claim a lost one
must match the computer photo
image stored with DMV.
“Quite a bit has happened
technologically since we were is
suing licenses on paper without j
photos,” Barnes said. “It was 8
much easier to claim you were
somebody else before. We had
little way of knowing.”
So far, 363,000 Oregonians
hold the credit-card licenses.
Within eight years, the state ex
pects all its 2.5 million registered
drivers to have the new licenses.
‘Springfield News’ among papers acquired by Lee
■ PURCHASE: Two daily
and six weekly newspapers
in the Northwest were
included in the deal
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Lee Enterprises
Inc. has agreed to purchase eight
Oregon newspapers and a four
state network of shopping and
speciality publications from ABC
and its parent company, The
Walt Disney Company, for $185
million.
News-Times, The Springfield
News, Gresham Outlook, Cottage
Grove Sentinel, Lebanon Express
and Sandy Post.
Lee Enterprises, headquartered
in Davenport, Iowa, already
owns the Corvallis Gazette-Times
and KOIN-TV in Portland.
The shoppers published by Pa
cific Northwest Publishing
Group have a total circulation of
980,000 and an estimated reader
ship of 2.2 million. The eight
newspapers have a combined
paid circulation of about 67,000.
“I am impressed with the over- g
all structure, the quality of man- |
agement exhibited by this group ?
of talented and experienced pro- jjj
fessionals of the Pacific North- t
west Publishing Group, and the j
performance of the shoppers and |
newspapers. We look forward to ;
having these talented people I
come into our company,” Got
tlieb said.
The Northwest group was as
sembled in the 1970s by Glenn
W. Jackson, a prominent Oregon
businessman and former state
highway chief. Jackson sold the
group to Capital Cities before his
death in 1980. <
The purchase of the Pacific
Northwest Publishing Group, an
nounced Monday, is the largest
acquisition in the 107-year histo
ry of Lee Enterprises, an Iowa
based company that owns 16
television stations and 19 daily
newspapers.
The shopper and speciality
publication group included in
the purchase operates in eight
markets in Washington, Oregon,
Nevada and Utah.
The Northwest publishing
group includes two daily news
papers — the Albany Democrat
Herald and Ashland Daily Tid
ings — and six weekly
newspapers — the Newport
“One of our principal strate
gies is to acquire print and broad
cast properties that are in growth
markets and have regional oppor
tunities to better serve our cus
tomers,” said Richard Gottlieb,
president and chief executive of
ficer of Lee Enterprises. “With
our presence already in the
Northwest... we see exciting op
portunities to provide new prod
uct platforms for our customers.”
Lee owns and operates nine
network-affiliated television sta
tions, seven satellite television
stations, 19 daily newspapers
and 36 weekly and specialty
publications in 15 states.
Capital Cities later acquired
the ABC television network, and
the combined company was
bought by The Walt Disney Co.
in 1995.
“Lee has a good track record as
a responsible media owner in
Oregon,” said John E. Buchner,
publisher of the Albany and
Lebanon papers. “Our employees
should look forward to joining a
media company of Lee’s profes
sional reputation and strong fi
nancial performance.”
The acquisition is expected to
close by Sept. 30.
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