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. 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