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SENIOR
WEEKEND
1987
Senior Bash
Friday, May 1, 8 p.m.
Texas Hall of Fame, $5/couple
Featuring Texas Highriders
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College Station Hilton, $30/couple
Cocktail Hour, 6 p.m.
Guest Speaker Jack Rains, ’60,
Texas Secretary of State
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MSC and Rudder Exhibit Hall, $35/couple
Featuring Michael, Michael and the Maxx
Ed Gerlach Orchestra
* Tickets for Senior Banquet must be purchased
by Noon Friday, May 1.
The Senior Weekend Package at $65/couple,
includes all three events. Tickets are on sale
at Rudder Box Office at 845-1234.
All tickets are presale.
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New DPS device uses eyes
to establish identification
By Sandra Saldivar
Reporter
People rely on their eyes to iden
tify what they see, but now eyes can
be used for personal identification as
well.
The Department of Public Safety
is testing a device that would record
a photographic image of the most
unique biological trait a person pos
sesses: the eye, or, more specifically,
the blood vessels in the retina of the
eye. The “eye signature” would
serve the purpose of verifying an in
dividual’s identity like a fingerprint.
The Brazos County DPS driver li
cense office was selected as the site
for a five-week testing period of the
EyeDentiachine and implemented
the program April 13. Officials say
the device could eliminate the issu
ance of fraudulent and ’ duplicate
driver licenses.
Sgt. Albert Tovar said the DPS is
sues four million licenses a year.
Some people go to several driver
license offices, use someone else’s
birth certificate or some other iden
tification document, give a false
name and address and receive seve
ral identities and driver’s licenses,
Tovar said.
A more precise and quicker iden
tification system would benefit ev
eryone, Tovar said.
Brian Withrow, DPS inspector for
driver license service, said, “No one’s
eyes are the same, not even identical
twins, because each eye has a differ
ent retina pattern.”
Security and Time Control Corp.
is the Texas distributor of the Eye-
Dentification machine. A company
representative, Mike Lawrence, said,
“Fingerprints are not as unique as
people would like to think. It takes a
well-trained eye to detect the differ
ences between fingerprints.
“Calculations necessary to isolate
and identify a fingerprint require a
machine with great precision.”
With one eye scan, he said, the
chances of the machine accepting an
imposter is one in a million. Having
both eyes on record would reduce
the chance of false acceptance to one
in a trillion.
At the Bryan office, original and
renewal driypr’s liceuse applicants
are being asked to volunteer for the
simple eye-scanning process. The
person being scanned looks into the
machine, lines up two green cones of
light and pushes the scan button.
If the project were implemented,
Lawrence said, the machine would
record a photographic image of the
eye, convert the image to a numeri
cal code and store the information in
the central computer in Austin for
future reference.
Tovar said the office is not re
cording the scanning image in the
Austin central computer because the
project is only in the testing stage.
The department is keeping track
of the number of people scannd,
the length of time it takesem[
to explain the test and the puici
opinion about the project, he said.
Jean Nuche, a driver’s license(i
flee clerk, said the machine wasea
to learn to operate.
After applicants take theeyescan
they are asked to fill out a comm
sheet, which Nuche said have bet
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Tovar said, “Lots of people tbit
it is a good idea, especially when tit
find out it could prevent somi
f rom using their license or appl 1
for their license.”
If the eye-scanning program
implemented, applicants will be
to take a vision test and the eye
by using the same machine.
Lawrence said the EveDentife
non mat bine easib can he instanj
into the vision testers alreadybt|
used by DPS.
Although it is too soon toquffl
pi iee for the project, Lawrences!
"It appears that the departimI
could receive federal funding,
would mean the project wouM
cost 1 exas anything to have them
(limes in si ailed in DPS units alloU
the state.”
The testing stage will last uri
May 22, then the procedure and
suits will be evaluated to deterniJ
if the project should be it
mented on a statewide basis.
Hightower says state economy
depends on ‘grass-roots’ workers
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Work
ers, not corporate executives and
major companies, should be the key
to the state’s economic development,
Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower said Tuesday.
“We’ve got to begin changing our
whole economic attitude, our poli
cies,” Hightower said. “I think we’ve
got to develop new industry at the
grass-roots level. We’ve been ignor
ing the grass roots. The trunks of
the trees are drying up and dying.”
Hightower said the state agricul
ture department is assisting in the
development of 52 agriculture proc
essing projects, involving more than
$218 million. The projects will pro
vide 5,000 new jobs, he said.
Hightower criticized national gov
ernment and corporate officials For
forcing hard economic conditions
that hurt workers.
“What we’re doing is investing in
the rich,” Hightower told the United
Food and Commerical Workers In
ternational Union.
“They think they’re the top dogs
and you all are just a bunch of fire
hydrants out there,” he said.
The closing of 131 Safeway gro
cery stores in North Texas has af
fected thousands of people, he said.
He said the only ones to profit
from the closures are theinvestn*!
group Kolhberg, Kravis and
erts, which purchased Safeway.3
others involved in sale.
“They’re going to profit, but®
economy loses.” Hightower stf
“Later this year, KKR prob
take Safeway public again and mil 1
a huge profit on its sale of stock.”
I le said other grocery storecM
may buy the Safeway stores,
union members will not be hired
“They’re not going to hire u#
workers, not because of the hi^
salaries,” Hightower said. "%
don’t want the union partnerslii
that has served us so well,”
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