ORONO, Maine — Hand scanners are now commonly used for students to gain entry to University of Maine dining halls as a way to foil the costly sharing of student identification cards.
The hand scanners, installed in Hilltop, Wells and York dining commons last semester, are mandatory for all students with an unlimited meal plan. Within the next few years the university plans to require their use by all students who eat at the dining halls.
The scanners were installed to keep costs down and eliminate the sharing of MaineCards, a practice that can cost UMaine up to $4,100 per card, the price of a meal plan for an academic year, according to Director of Auxiliary Services Dan Sturrup and Director of Dining Operations Kathy Kittiridge.
“The scanners were installed to ensure the integrity of our contracts so we can keep our prices low,” Sturrup said in an interview.
“If people are sharing meal plans, it increases food costs, which in turn increases the costs overall for students,” Kittiridge added.
The scanners cost UMaine $331 per unit. The total expense was about $5,000, including installation costs, which came directly out of the auxiliary services budget, according to Sturrup and Director of Technology Management Benny Veenhof.
Auxiliary staff members said they visited numerous other schools across the country that have adopted the technology successfully — including the University of New Hampshire, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Georgia — in order to better understand how hand scanners could be installed at UMaine in a cost-efficient manner.
“These scanners are being used across the country successfully,” Sturrup said. “Even middle school lunch programs and the health profession are starting to use them. Our system is different and didn’t require a new computer system. We just plugged it into our existing system and it is safe, secure and it didn’t cost a lot of money.”
Veenhof said that because hand scanners require less maintenance than the MaineCard readers, in the long term they will save the university money.
“So far there hasn’t been any problems with them,” he said. “With the old system the registers that read the cards needed to be replaced regularly, and that can get expensive. These should be much easier to fix should anything ever happen to them.”
How the scanners work
“The scanners use safe infrared technology to scan your palm,” according to the MaineCard Service Center on the University of Maine website. “A vein map of your palm is created via black lines that are converted through an encrypted algorithm and connected to your MaineCard ID number. The information is stored in a database which resides on a secure private network that also connects to the registers.”
Each scanner resembles a small bucket and is placed next to the register. A student places a hand on the scanner. The individual’s unique vein map is scanned and the student’s account is charged accordingly.
When asked why cashiers couldn’t simply check the photograph on the MaineCard to deny usage to anyone but the registered cardholder, Sturrup said: “Photos get old, worn and faded. When there are large lines of people it’s unreasonable to ask the cashier to check every photograph, and it’s often too difficult to tell if the photograph is the actual person holding the card.”
Some students using the scanners question whether the devices are sanitary, whether the new technology infringes on their privacy, and whether their personal information is secure. Sturrup and Veenhof insist that the scanners are sanitary, and that all student information will be deleted once they no longer have a meal plan.
“The record the scanner keeps can only be accessed at our registers. The scanners do not scan students’ fingerprints or any other personal data, and all information is stored safely on our private network,” Veenhof said.
When asked about whether the devices are sanitary, he added: “The scanner is in the shape of a bucket. Touching of the surface is minimal. Students should be less concerned scanning their hands than touching a door handle.”
Kittiridge noted that at every register there is hand sanitizer available to students, and that if asked, the cashier can wipe down the scanner with an antiseptic wipe.
How the students feel
University Auxiliary staff members said the majority of students are now comfortable with the scanners and enjoy their convenience. Although the university says it is “flexible” about requiring students to use the hand scanners, first-year student Alex Richardson says he didn’t have a choice.
“It was mandatory for me, and it made me uncomfortable,” he said. “They are an extreme waste of money, are much slower then swiping a MaineCard, they aren’t sanitary, and dining simply won’t admit that they wasted money and made a mistake. Just think of where else that money could have been spent. Everybody feels that way.”
“The scanners are annoying and completely unnecessary,” added fourth-year student Nicole Wentworth. “Half of the time they don’t even work right. They are a waste of time and money. That money could have been used on something the students actually need, like replacing the ancient computers in some of the labs. The old swipe system worked just fine.”
Sturrup acknowledged there have been problems with the system but said they have since been corrected.
“We did have some problems in the beginning, as you do with any new technology, but they have been corrected, and the system is running smoothly,” he said. “The vast majority of students are now comfortable with the scanners and prefer not having to dig for their MaineCards.”
This is rather freaky. :(
Wait ’til they upgrade to chip implants.
I worked at York Dining at UMO last year and as a cashier I can say that I think the hand scanners are really stupid. Everyone had a card to get into their dorms and use it for meal swipes too, there were no problems with it. It’s a wast of money and unsanitary and does not work all that well. I’ll admit, it’s pretty cool, but not worth the cost. I never once saw any sharing of cards and we physically scanned the cards, so I don’t see how there could be much fraud as the cards have ID pics on them and even if there were any fraud it would be a very small amount of money, not nearly as much as the scanners cost. The dining halls are mostly staffed by students getting paid with government money and it’s thousands of dollars for the meal plan so Umaine makes its fair share of money if not even more than they should from the dining halls. I personally did not sign up for the program because I did not want my palm print in some ID database.
It won’t be long before people will have to have a mark on their body to scan instead of using cards.
I’d rather use an Online University than go through the Rube Goldberg system they have at UMaine.
Very cool… Cannot wait to see what is coming in the next 10 years.
Chip Implants
Tattooed bar codes on the neck.
Umaine is too concerned about how students spend THERE money.
Their
They is entitled to there theiry.
theory?
This allegation of dining card fraud reminds me of the cries of voter fraud that turned out to be baloney. Now you’ve got to essentially shake hands with 900 people before you can have a sandwich? I’m predicting either a run on hand sanitizer or a bird flu outbreak in Orono next year.
They Had a Photo ID.
Now its just a gross health hazard.
EeeWww
Are people seriously that uneducated about germs that there is a real need to get up in arms about the ‘sanitation hazard’ of a hand scanner? Do you touch door handles when you leave the bathroom? Do you use an office phone at work? Do you pet animals? Do you shake hands with other people? If so, these surfaces are just as, if not more, germ-laden than a hand scanner. Use good hygiene and wash right before eating like we are all taught in elementary school and you will be fine.
RN the bottom line is to minimize exposure. Sure X number of students and staff may touch certain door handles but the number increases greatly when you’ve got a scanner that is doing a huge population of the student population. It’s all to do with math. Also most students aren’t going to line up for the bathroom to wash their hands once they entered the dinning commons.
an over priced low grad (all you can eat) sandwich : )
See, that’s the ironic part of this whole scenario. There is most definitely fraudulent behavior ongoing at the dining halls, or the school wouldn’t spend the money for the new systems and technical support package.
However, the same students that cannot be trusted with access to a salad bar are supposedly complete trustworthy when it comes to “one vote, one person, one locality.”
These students pay for a meal
plan! If they miss a meal cause of whatever they have going on, the
meal is still paid for! So, where is the harm in them letting another
hungry student use their paid meal to eat? Give me a break! and trust me, these students will be paying for their education for more than half their lives! Who’s the real victim here?
Actually the way it is set up is its an ‘all you care to eat method’ which allows you unlimited entrys per day, and unlimited amount of food per visit. so there is no ‘missing your meal’ your not limited to a certain period of time you can only eat.. its 7am til 7pm
my college had 3 meals a day, and would be closed in between meals
From umaine.edu/dining/news.htm .. RESIDENTIAL DINING: Hilltop, Wells
Central and YorkHilltop, Wells Central and York feature
continuous service in our all-you-care-to-eat dining rooms. Lighter fare is
served between breakfast, lunch and dinner. Each location also has a convenience
market for snacks, groceries and take-out meals.
anyways…they still pay for it and UMaine still makes a profit! They victims here are the students, cause they are going to be paying for their educations for the rest of their lives!
Perhaps if they grew up, realized that the meal plans are a complete rip off (as is the boarding plan) relative to purchasing the same goods outside of the university system, and decided to pay for some of those credits along the way, instead of financing the whole enchilada, they’d only be paying off their education for about ten years or so after they graduate….like the rest of us.
but you wouldn’t get the whole college experience! Your way sounds boring! LOL
I agree with you. It’s too bad though because freshman are REQUIRED to purchase a full meal plan = thousands of dollar. And there are no kitchens allowed in the dorms because those would be deemed ‘hazards’ I suppose. Ridiculous.
Nation, your totally wrong on this, U maine might make a little profit, but not much.
Yea but the food isn’t all that good and logically speaking people should eat like that in real life.
“Paying for their education for the rest of their lives”? The University of Maine system is one of the most reasonable colleges in the country as far as cost go. If your not a total dummy the grants and scholarships available (which don’t have to be paid back) can cover a large percentage of the tuition. It seems you want to criticize them for trying to stop the theft which increases cost? Get a clue or go back to the occupy bangor protest you love so much. I would be very happy if my kids choose UM!
Class of 95 alumni
Yes but just like shopping at the Dollar Store you get what you pay for. A University that got an “F” grade in 2010 across the board. Also they are expensive and over priced even if it is less than other schools. But it would be more logical to pay that little extra for a better education. Also too many of the instructors and professors I met at UMaine would fudge data a little to match their political views. They also seemed to favor certain students over others. Why would I want to be judged by a professor from a school that got an “F” grade that seems to be biased? For what? A low quality education? UMaine is the Family Dollar of Universities. Also I got a lot of disinformation from Financial Aid to my Academic-adviser, which is one reason why I left. Also it seemed too much like a party school full of sociopaths.
This is just the university making sure that no one gives someone else their card because they are skipping that meal. Fraud? The university has already been paid for the meal. This sorta reminds me of the university’s practice of selling more parking decals than they have parking spaces. Then handing out bogus parking tickets which if you don’t pay you dont receive your credits. I’m not even going to get into the used book scam they run every year. Bunch of thieves sitting way up top of a ivory tower,looking down on the rest of us poor uneducated neanderthal’s.
Let’s clear up a couple of things.
First, the ridiculous argument that the school is being underhanded by issuing more parking decals than there are spaces.
NOT EVERYONE WITH A DECAL IS ON CAMPUS AT THE SAME TIME.
Say there are 6,000 spaces on campus and you own Decal No. 6,000. When you arrive, the other 5,999 cars are on campus. Chances are, you’re going to have to drive around for a while to find that last spot. You would still complain.
Second, your credits aren’t withheld when you fail to pay a parking ticket. Your degree is. There’s a difference. All parking tickets can be appealed. You can appeal right at Public Safety, or you can appeal to a committee (at least when I was there). If you have a case, you can win (I did several times).
1. Just because you use all CAPS doesn’t mean you are right and 2. You and UMaine are suffering from Cognitive-Dissonance & Rationalizing rather than being Logical & Objective.
When I was at Umaine they were notorious for selling more parking permits than spaces, and also knowingly ticketing students that were NOT parked in handicap spaces. They would also violate fire codes by filling up small classrooms with almost 2 times the students that could actually fit. All the desks were crammed right on top of each other. I know student enrollment has been climbing fast BUT they keep failing to build more actual classrooms. They do build buildings for special focused classrooms but not for general classrooms. I often felt scared when I was sitting in a UMaine classroom and thinking “what if there was a fire or disaster” we’d be trampling each other just so UMaine could save money. What if there was a school shooting? We were so cramped together that we’d be sitting ducks. Also they would turn on the heat too early in the year and it would be like 90 degrees in a classroom of 50 students that is only meant for 25.
I feel like I heard a reference to hand scanners or marks on the fore head in the “Bible” or in the book “1984” or something? The future is here.
Why does the university care who uses the card if it is just one meal eaten? It is paid for after all. I think this is an infringement on their privacy and are all the cards in to assure them it is safe? Only time will tell the answer to that.
it is unlimited dining, unlimited times a day, one person could hand there card to 5 different people and in the end 6 people would end up eating as much as they want in a day.
That is NOT TRUE you LIAR. Most students do NOT have the unlimited meal plan. Most students have X amount of meals on their card for each semester and only 1 meal can be subtracted during each dining period. Then they only have X amount of cash dinning funds aka Black Bear Bucks. Which is ALL paid for by the student. So Roy stop twisting facts around and stop lying.
Yeah, the micro chip will be next, just getting everyone ajusted and comfortable to the sytem, so as when they do start (require) implanting the chip, people will think it is the new fad, and take it without hesitaion, can hear people now saying, wow cool, got your chip yet?
Beware though, taking the implanted chip will eternally damm your soul.
Revelation 13
15And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Oh Merry Christmas, Jesus is the reason for the season, and in His Holy Word, we are warned not to take the mark/chip and or tattoo of the beast
In the end , the beast /satan out of hell, and his blinded followers will loose.
Jesus and His( the ones that have accepted Him as Lord and Saviour), will win and spend eternity in a place of no more sorrows, pain , and tears, in heaven!
That’s what I was thinking in my post earlier.
The university meal plan is a complete rip off…
No Kevin. Your comment should be removed. I’d simply rather not have my palm print in database. Not because I plan to get in trouble, but because I believe in privacy rights.
Well Josh I hope you never take any sort of job that requires background checks. The company I work for does a very extensive background check on me at random times. I have no clue when they are going to do it, they just do it.
Do they have my fingerprints? Nope, but the DEA does because I’ve done work for them. Am I worried that the DEA has my fingerprints on file? Not at all.
Those that abide by the law have nothing to fear and I hope next year you are forced to use the scanner. Private institutions can do as they desire.
A background check for a job is perfectly understandable when it’t necessary for the safety and welfare of customers, etc. UMO is NOT a private institution, you should get your facts straight next time.
I believe in privacy rights and I believe in not wasting money. As someone who had to do work study in addition to loans to go to UMO, it’s not fair to waste money. No one should b forced to use the scanner and I would not go to an institution that did. A picture ID is already sufficient, when it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Those who abide by the law have nothing to fear if the laws are constitutional and there are no streaks of totalitarianism. There are both those things currently I believe. It’s a slippery slope when it becomes commonplace to swipe you’re palm to get a meal, soon will it be when you go to get you’re license renewed, etc. If the government wanted to go after you all they would have to do was flag your palm print in a database and if it was commonplace to scan your palm for various daily transactions then bingo they’ve got you and I should mention that it’s not perfectly legal for you to be detained indefinitely and if that’s not unconstitutional then I don’t know what is! I’m not a big conspiracy theorist, that is just an example of what is potentially possible. I’m sure you feel proud to have worked for the DEA, but that does not make it right to expect that our personal identities should be put on the line for convenience.
Its bad enough to renew a drivers licence you need a certified copy of birth certificate along with a piece of mail that links you to a physicial address
Haha this makes it so much easier to get a free meal for your friend. Better technology does not always mean better security. Not to mention the creepy, Orson Wells 1984 “Big Brother” feeling that I get about the whole thing, I mean who wants their handprint in a database… weird. This and the tobacco free campus policy makes me think the administration at Orono must be severely disconnected with their students and faculty.
It . Is. Not. a Handprint.. it is a MAP of the veins in your hand.. not. a . hand . print
Sorry, stealing is stealing. If you aren’t entitled, you aren’t entitled. Period. Things like this drives the operating costs up. Just like Walmart. Someone says, I can steal a candy bar its only .88 cents. One out of ten people does that or something worse, there you go! Up goes the prices for everyone! Rationalize all you want to make it sound right, wrong is wrong.
I ate oodles of noodles, because I didn’t have a meal card to eat on campus and I waitressed. If the cook fed me I ate something besides oodles of noodles.
Sanitization is easy; there is a sterilizer that can be sprayed onto the scanner between each student. Or give the students hand sanitizer to use afterwards or ask them to wash their hands in the restroom before eating after using scanner for safety. If there is a will there is a way.
When everyone was honest, we didn’t have to go to these extremes. Parents used to teach their children that taking what wasn’t theirs was wrong, period. Now, I hear everyone trying to justify it. If it belongs to a big cooperations its o.k. to take it because they can afford it. If it belongs to government take as much as you can get! It’s not about what you can give, but what you can take!!
I agree 100%. There are many people who think dishonesty is no big deal. If someone stole from the dining halls, it would be theft. If one student takes food for another student who didn’t pay for it, it’s stealing. They don’t allow sharing at all-you-can-eat buffets, so why is it ok in this situation?
How can you STEAL something YOU PAID FOR? ha ha ha
Hand scanning today, chips surgically placed tomorrow.
And the University continues to make sure every dollar “spent” on their overpriced meal system stays at the University. As a former student, I”d love to have a credit for all the meals I “bought” that I didn’t get to use. I argued this to the Bursar’s Office, I pretty much got back “You couldn’t get to a commons because you had class? Not our fault.”
Want to live on campus? Have to have a meal plan (unless you live in specialized housing).
Want to have an “all cash” meal plan? Expect to go broke _well_ before the end of the semester (Unless you like ramen…lots and lots of ramen.)
I damn well paid for those meals, but could I give them to a friend? No.
As for “Continuous Service”? Certainly, if you want salad, soda, coffee, or ice cream. You can have a “proper” meal…if you show up during a proper meal time. Can’t ask for a “bag lunch” ahead of time, either. Gotta have a doctor’s note for that.
I can understand that when I paid for classes, missing one doesn’t entitle me to a refund. But eating a meal isn’t instruction, it is a service. If I pay for a service, I want my money’s worth…even if I have to give part of that service to a friend to do so.
I know. They have eggs they use for their over priced breakfast sandwiches that on the shipping boxes say: “GRADE E BUT EDIBLE” and can sell students small $3.00 cookies but heaven forbid they’d waste money on quality. Then they turn around and whine and cry to the student about what they can do with their own money. BTW when I was at UMaine a friend of mine found a shard metal in his hamburger and reported it, but it was like he got an angry attitude from them because they had to recall the burgers the students were eating. They pretended that he did the right thing but actually seemed pissed. One of them said “Well you are sort of ruining the meal for everybody”, when in reality he might of saved another student from a horrible throat injury or chocking hazard. Then there was that time that they served us soup after they knew a light bulb blew near one of the stoves, rather than waste the cheap (all you can eat) soup they served it and my friend found a sliver of glass in her bowl. It’s not like this sort of stuff happened a lot but it does seem like they are all too willing to save a buck any way that they can. Sure “All you can eat” sounds nice but their food wasn’t all that great, gross pizza, rubbery hot dogs, grade E meats, yuk!
HiTech electronic scanners to prevent fraud at lunch.
NoTech – Nocheck system that allows fraud to be able to vote ??
Makes perfect sense.
UMaine can throw away money on brand new buildings that are unnecessary, or create jobs by tearing down steps to the Union that were built right the first time only to replace them again and again and again and again for two whole semesters to create jobs. But a student can’t share his or her own money. That’s pretty sad!
The rules are given when they get the cards. They break the rules they should loose the cards. Use of the card by anybody other then the person it is issued to is THEFT for those of you who don’t get that by allowing another person to use there card they are STEALING. I for one think they should be charged as such.
Sounds like the rights of students are being trampled on. How dare they!
Like many universities, UMaine is in the forefront of trends of the future. In this case, our future is to endow more power to BIGBROTHER!!! UMaine is in the pocket of Agribusiness etc. I would not send my worst enemy to UMO.
I guess it’s too difficult to go the route that Plymouth State used 20 years ago–a bar code reader and programming that allowed each scanned card only ONE admission per meal period.
freshman are required to buy in ,why ?because umo knows they very seldom use their meal allotment,and two they also know that a vast majority of all students dont use their meal allotment but share it with those cant afford to buy in ,and so they want their greedy paws on the unused money when in reality they should be required by law to refund it at the end of year.time for legislation requiring it to be refunded.
Where are the people that say showing an ID to vote is unreasonable?
Now your getting to the crux of the Sysco biscuit.
You go to the head of the class.
If this is going to be their way of saving money then they should also implement a policy that refunds the student their money when they have funds left on their meal plan at the end of the semester. Currently, if you have funds left on your account at the end of the semester it is not refunded. Let’s work on saving everybody money not just the University.
Don’t all the students have ID cards with their picture on it? Have them show an ID when they get their meal, would have been cheaper than these scanners.
Are you guys not reading the article?
Do you support the same requirement to obtain a ballot in Maine?
The University of Georgia has been using hand scanners for residence hall entry and meal plan access for more than 5 years – because of the similarity in the unlimited-access meal plans, it makes sense for UMO to use the same sort of system. UMO has newer technology, however, that requires less contact for the hand scan. Regardless, it’s very simple to place a hand sanitizer dispenser at the entry point to allow those students concerned about the sanitary aspect of the scanners to sanitize their hands after using the scanner. After having worked in the dining halls at UGA, I can say that it would be completely unreasonable for the cashiers to check the ID of each individual entering the dining hall. At peak times, most dining halls serve more than 1500 students within the space of about 45 minutes, and the hand scanner makes the most sense for regulating entry to the dining hall while maintaining a streamlined process for entry.
Only a small % of students actually buy the “unlimited” meal plan at UMaine. Most students have the One Meal Per meal time plans. 1 meal for breakfast (which most students don’t eat), 1 meal for lunch, and 1 meal for supper. So they can’t actually swipe the card twice per breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I just think UMaine is being a Grinch about all this.
Which hand swipes is it either or the right? My young cousin just got a new game that uses a headband to control it; the controlling part is a cirlce over the forehead…Sounds like more conditioning for youth to become accustomed to what lies in the future.
I never understood why they can’t share “IF” they are paying for it in the first place? It’s the student’s money. If the University is that poor to offer such a service why do they continue offing meal plans? Besides most their low grade food costs 5 times what it’s worth. Heck a friend of mine saw a box outside one of the commons that read: “Grade E but edible”. ha ha ha Also if you are caught sharing your card it can be taken away from you, which means that you are going without food on your next meal. Which I think probably is a violation of human rights. Besides students are only allowed X amount of meals on the meal plans and it’s not like they are using extra meals on the card, it’s something the student paid for anyway. If they want to skip a meal and share it with another student that should be their right. Also they are able to have cash put on the card as well but this is also “the students money”. Gee I think since UMaine Orono had a failing “F” grade across the board for University standards from Academics on up. By a conservative think take: “Made in Maine: A State Report on Public Higher Education”. I think they should FOCUS & PRIORITIZE what needs to come first. That University in Orono obsesses more over money and building new buildings they don’t even need then they do what they are supposed to do “EDUCATION”. They dump millions into sports, recreation, and building stuff they don’t need than they do their own system. Also many years ago they did this weird thing where for 2 whole semesters they would build & replace the steps to the Student Union. Someone said this was to create jobs. But it was a total waste of money. The steps were fine the first or second time they were built, how much money did UMaine waste on ALL these projects and they whine and moan that some students are sharing their food cards that they paid for. You see UMaine saves money when ever a student doesn’t actually use their card and misses a meal. This nickle and dime scheme pays off better if they put silly rules up to stifle the students uses of “there own money”. I know UMaine since the early 90s has had an unhealthy obsession with being “The Flag Ship” school of Maine so they need to put on this big show and keep up appearances by building and building and building things they don’t really need instead of reinvesting money where it belongs. Now the last few years this bubble world they created is falling in on them. They have classrooms that are falling apart, classrooms that are too small for the number of students they try to cram into them, and other broken things they need to fix, and faculty, staff, professors, and other instructors that are paid lower than the national average that deserve raises. But instead they build buildings that they don’t use or need. They make certain areas look prettier than others so that when tour groups come they can put on a good show. But will they replace asbestos tiles in the residence halls, NO, they simply replace the tiles one at a time as they fall down, and put carpet down over the tiles on the floor. Though they have taken asbestos out of most of the STAFF buildings. They have over priced $2.99 cookies at the Union, 1 salad costs almost $4.99 without a drink or a side, the students need to take out more loans towards the end of the semesters to replenish their meal plans to keep up with the “Grad E but edible” over priced egg sandwiches they buy in the morning and $2.99 cups of coffee. BUT UMAINE is cracking down on students sharing dining cards that the student paid for. It’s their money! If UMaine would invest the money they make into their own educational system and to fix up buildings that actually need it then they wouldn’t have this problem. You know it’s just like those investment firms that buy expensive houses, expensive cars, and expensive clothes just to put on a big show and keep up appearances but they fail big time to reinvest money where it’s needed, they fail to prioritize their Needs Vs Their Wants. What UMaine is suffering from is “Cognitive-Dissonance” they can’t discern their NEEDS from their WANTS! They can’t figure out that eventually a school becomes big and great because needs are met first, because a healthy school needs to be healthy from the inside out before it can grow. Lets say that you don’t take care of your health and it begins to fail. Well you can slap on all the make-up, hair dye, and such all you want but eventually you can’t put on the show any longer. Your ill health will show through eventually. Now, UMaine is falling apart because of their own greed and ignorance. And they have the nerve to pick on the poor young students that will be facing massive debts because of it. You’d think that they’d have the right to share a food card.
“enjoy their convenience” ha ha ha Even if the students did find it convenient I highly doubt the enjoy it. LOL That was a little over the top. What are they all 5 years old and mesmerized by the high tech gadget? Even if the students didn’t mind it I’m sure they aren’t all saying “Wow this is so much fun weeeeee”!
So let’s get this straight. University officials don’t believe their students can be trusted with access to the granola bars, but when it comes to ballots, there’s no possibility of fraud.
Right?
It is, because it clearly illustrates that photo ID for voting should be a requirement, as well. If we cannot trust our youth to limit themselves to honestly obtaining a banana, it stands to reason the same holds for obtaining a ballot.