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Fake ID: Forgery damages career prospects Continued from page 1 legal, but this isn’t true. “Novelty is having an Elvis Pres ley ID in your wallet,” Ellis said. “These Web sites make it easy for students to get sucked into commit ting a felony without realizing it.” Kaplan wasn’t impressed with the quality of the fake Oregon ID when he got it in the mail, Ellis said. The hologram was especially bad, but he thought he could pass it off in Texas over the summer. “I have a real problem when seemingly nice kids do dumb-shit stuff,” Ellis said. “He shouldn’t have been carrying it around if he wasn’t even using it.” Most fake IDs are confiscated by bartenders, store clerks and restau rant employees. They’re usually sent to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which hands them over to the district attorney, OLCC Administrative Assistant Amanda Cooper said. On average, the OLCC receives about 100 confiscated IDs from Lane, Douglas, Benton and Lincoln counties each month, Cooper said. “I don’t want students, just for the sake of a beer, to have a felony on their record,” Ellis said. EPD Sgt. Terry Fitzpatrick said fake IDs are a big problem in Eu gene. He echoed Ellis’ concern about felony records being ever present throughout the life of a college graduate who could have otherwise had more potential for success. Even if the felony is plea-bar gained down to a misdemeanor, it will continue to show up as a felony arrest on local law enforcement computers and an officer will be less likely to let the offender off with a warning, Ellis said. An employer might give an appli cant who is a convicted marijuana user a second chance if they say they’ve been clean for a long time, “but not with forgery,” Fitzpatrick said. Charges of that nature depict “core honesty values,” he said, and are less likely to be overlooked. “Kids don’t understand how seri ous this can be. It can follow them for 10 or 20 years,” Fitzpatrick said, adding that when they finally get it off their record and are ready to start anew, they’ll be pushing 40. emilysmith@dailyememld.com We've got sp at www.dailyemeraid.com Premier Travel 1 • Airfare Specials! • Boston - $178.00* Raleigh - $198.00* Canctin - $342.00* Nagoya - $548.00* *ia\ a tut Ices not included. tyslrklfems apply. Subject to chance vtithoiu notice. Kurail Passes issued On-Site!!! E-mail: iaresw luv2travel.com 1011 Harlow j747-0909 |Student Travel Expefts SPAGHETTI £ garlic bread $350 Every Tuesday PIZZA 2506 Willakenzie 344-0998 flpe/o Plzt7ZI 2673 Willamette 484-0996 27th and Willamette FUJICOLOR Ip R 0 C E S S 1 N G. I N c.l PHOTO SPECIALS May 2 - May 8 $2°° OFF DOUBLE PRINTS (c-41 full-frame color print film) 3x5 4x6 12 exp $1.25 $3.25 24 exp $3.25 $5.25 36 exp $5.25 $8.25 UOBookstore.com UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOOKSTORE \s2MSg much for inkjet & laser toner cartridges? Reuse your empty cartridge! Save 40-70% Drop Box Locations on Campus • U of O Book Store • Digital Duck • EMU • Law school Visit one of our four locations or use any of the over one hundred Drop Boxes around town. 830 Willamette St. Valley River Center 1925 River Road 3570 West 11th 541.334.4465 541.345.4465 541.689.3513 541.686.4651 www.RapidRefilllnk.com BOOK YOUR SUMMER IN 'REG N - UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SUMMER SESSION 2005 SUMMER SESSION GROUP-SATISFYING AND ELECTIVE COURSES, SHORT COURSES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS BEGIN THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. Summer session begins June 20. Registration begins May 2. The UO Summer Session Catalog with Schedule of Classes will be available in early April. You can speed your way toward graduation by taking required courses during summer. 2005 SUMMER SCHEDULE First four-week session: June 20-July 15 Second four-week session: July 18-August 12 Eight week session: June 20-August 12 Eleven week session: June 20-September 2 http://uosiimjmer.uoregon.edii 383 Oregon Hall 1279 University of Oregon Eugene OR 97403-1279 Telephone (541) 346-3475 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Cheek our website hUp://uosummer,uoregon«edu
