OUR VIEW: Take responsibility for I.D. numbers

Being college students, we often beg those older than us to treat us like adults. In order for that to happen, though, we need to start acting like adults and be responsible for ourselves.

When using a credit card at The Hub, your complete number is printed on the receipt. Many students simply throw the receipts away or leave them sitting on a table.

How can we complain then if something happens to our credit identity?

Yes, it stinks that The Hub prints the whole number on receipts, but it is not the only business to do so.

If we are mature enough to have a credit card and use it to buy ourselves into debt, then we need to be responsible enough to keep track of what the number is being printed on and where we leave it.

The same applies to our social security numbers and any other personal information that we want to keep private.

Utah does not require that a social security number be on driver licenses. Nor do you have to put it on your checks.

Although identification numbers at Utah State are currently the student’s social security number, measures are being taken to correct the problem.

The university is currently working on the Banner System. It is not scheduled to be completely finished until 2006, but in the end, it will not call for social security numbers to identify students. It will also include other improvements on how the institution is run.

Utah State is taking needed measures to secure our identity.

We need to do the same.