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RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona

Posted by kdawson on from the present-and-accounted-for dept.

The student newspaper at UW-Madison is running a piece about the use of RFID to check lecture attendance at Northern Arizona University. One poster to an email discussion list suggested that getting around this system would be simple if "all one has to do is walk into a classroom with 10 RFID-enabled cards in their pocket." "The new system will use sensors to detect students' university identification cards when they enter classrooms, according to NAU spokesperson Tom Bauer. The data will be recorded and available for professors to examine. ... [The spokesman] added the sensors, paid for by federal stimulus money, initially would only be installed in large freshmen and sophomore classes with more than 50 students. NAU Student Body President Kathleen Templin said most students seem to be against the new system. She added students have started Facebook groups and petitions against the sensor system. ... One of the most popular Facebook groups ... has more than 1,400 members." What are the odds that the use of tracking RFID will expand over time on that campus?

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  1. PROFIT! by Bananatree3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Lobby for this in your state

    2) Go back to college, target ones with huge classes and this RFID attendance checking system

    3) Advertise that, for a small fee, you'll gladly take people's cards with you to class. Once you get to class, take a nap

    ???

    Profit!

  2. Re:Attendence in college? by NFN_NLN · · Score: 5, Funny

    As someone that taught in a French university: "I don't f-ing care whether students come or not in my class". It is THEIR problem if they fail the exam and the mid term, not mine.

    What I find entertaining is some students started a facebook page to protest their invasion of privacy. Isn't that IRONIC?

  3. Re:Stimulus? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shovel-ready Death Panels?

  4. Re:Attendence in college? by characterZer0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I support Barack Obama, but not his mission.

    Great. Then I support Osama bin Laden, but not his mission.

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    Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
  5. Re:Attendence in college? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    And in exchange for taking 10 guy's cards into the lecture with me, I'll be glad to use their on-campus meal points to feed the homeless.....

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    SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
  6. Re:American universities are more like businesses. by Teufelsmuhle · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are being discriminated against... discriminated against for being dumb. Dumb people are still people, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Attendence in college? by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 2, Funny

    What would we do as a country if we have university graduates who think for themselves and don't automatically buy whatever the current Democratic Party line is?

    There's Democrats in Arizona?

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    I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.

  8. Re:Attendence in college? by RichardJenkins · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I don't f-ing care whether students come or not in my class"

    I think it would be a little distracting if they did.