[5092] in APO News
MIT Alumni Card info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura G Dean)
Wed Jan 10 22:39:10 2001
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:18:12 -0500
From: Laura G Dean <lgdean@MIT.EDU>
Here is info about getting an MIT alum card.
Once you get one, let me know what number it is,
what the name on the card is, and your email address.
Yes, APO doesn't have a choice about having the lock
on the door be based on the MIT card. No, I wouldn't
have the energy to fight even if it would be useful.
YiLFS,
Laura
(who also doesn't know exactly when the locks will change,
though she hopes that such info will get passed to the ASA,
then APO, then you.)
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Subject: better alum card info
From: Jamie Morris <jemorris@MIT.EDU>
Thanks to those who responded with recent/current alum card info.
I attempt to distill it and to answer questions about non-degree'd people:
Alums can trivially get an Alum Card _not_authorized_for_anything_ by asking.
It won't open even the 56/66 doors (annoying!), but you can show it to CPs,
use it as an MIT Library card, use it as an MIT Athletic card, etc.
(There are fees for library & athletic access.)
Such a card is sufficient for activity office access, since it's in
the Card Office DB and therefore available for the CAC DB to authorize
for _our_ door(s), which aren't the Card Office's responsibility.
If you want your card authorized to open the general-campus-area doors that
most cards do, e.g. 56/66, you need a formal request and 'sufficient' reason.
A letter from an activity might or might not qualify for the latter.
(So the available cards are not what friendly-cards wants.)
Re non-degree'd people: If you attended MIT for a while, you're an alum,
degree or no. (I believe "a while" == two terms for MIT and, for that
matter, for universities in general, but don't know of any activities alums
who weren't in for at least two years anyway.)
Try going to http://web.mit.edu/alum/ and registering; if you can, the
alum assoc database recognizes you as an alum. They may not know about
name changes or may have otherwise lost track of some people, in which
case you probably have to talk to them to be refound.
So, I think the process is currently:
1) Optionally reassure yourself that you're in the alum assoc db by
registering at http://web.mit.edu/alum/.
Having a permanent @alum.mit.edu forwarding address is useful anyway :)
If you're not there, call them (3-8200) or walk over and get yourself in.
2) Go to the Alum Assoc office (bring photo ID) and tell them you want to get
an alum card. They give you a form, you fill it out, they sign it.
I'm not sure which of their rooms it is but 10-110 is a good default.
3) Go to the Card Office, E32-121 second floor, normal business hours,
with form & photo ID on a good hair day. They take a picture and make a card.
E32 is across the street from the Med Center.
Activities that want to authorize your card for their offices will need
the MIT ID# on the card and your name exactly as it appears on the card.
(Same goes for any other flavor of MIT Card, btw.)
I suggest cardless alums do this soon, to be sure.
The Card Office is probably less busy during winter break anyway....
Let us know if any of it turns out to be wrong or incomplete :-)
Jamie
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