This fall, the Student Data Verification Form, which includes the printed student schedule and registration receipt/fee card, has been eliminated due to budget cuts.

Although many offices and services on the ISU campus have used this fee card as proof of current enrollment, most are now only requiring a student’s ISUCard.

Larry Dau, associate registrar, said the elimination of the printed student data verification form was a part of a reduction in student services within the division of student affairs.

“As part of the planning process for elimination of the student data verification form, the Office of the Registrar researched the need for the registration receipt/fee card,” Dau said.

It was determined that there were three main areas that required the fee card in the past, Dau said. These areas are CyRide, the Athletic Ticket Office and Recreation Services.

“There are some additional offices on campus that use the registration receipt on a more limited basis,” Dau said.

“The Office of the Registrar is working with those offices to find appropriate alternatives as needed.”

Robert Bourne, director of transportation for CyRide, said starting August 12, students will only have to show their ISUCard in order to ride CyRide for free.

“We are making it very simple for everyone,” Bourne said.

Bourne is not concerned with the prospect of former students using their ISUCard to ride CyRide for free.

“In general, when people drop out or graduate, they leave Ames,” Bourne said. “The fraud level will be very minimal.”

Faculty and staff may also use their ISUCard to ride CyRide, but are still charged 75 cents for individual rides or half-price when they purchase a semester pass, Bourne said.

The Athletic Ticket Office will only meet with slight changes because of the fee card elimination.

David Crum, ticket manager, said when a student orders a season pass, the tickets will only print out if the student is currently registered.

If the tickets do not print, then ticket office employees will look up the student on the ISU Web site to verify that the student is registered.

Students will actually have it easier when going to athletic events.

“Entering the game, what they will need is their student ID, not the fee card as well,” Crum said.

Recreation services will also experience some changes.

Scott White, associate director of recreation services, said they are putting out a bid for a request for proposal to several software companies.

They are considering a new software system that will be similar to what is currently used at Parks Library.

The student will have to scan their ISUCard, which will then download their current information on the terminals used by recreation services.

White said this new software program would be used all over the different locations of recreation services.

However, the successful bidder will not start operation until mid- to late October. In the meantime, White said recreation services will be using a spot-checking system.

“We realize that during this transitional period, there might be some folks getting in that do not belong there,” White said. “I don’t think it is going to be too much of a problem.”

White said the ID checkers at the recreational services centers would just have to be more thorough when checking IDs and looking a little more closely at pictures.