House Dining Halls Check Student ID

The University Food Service will require students at all Harvard and Radcliffe Houses to show their bursar's cards when they enter the dining halls until October 31 and periodically after that.

Kay Lacoss, assistant to the director of the Food Service, said yesterday, "The check is to make sure that everyone who is eating is paying, and that everyone has the proper card."

Lacoss said the check was prompted by a recent discovery of a Leverett House student who thought she was on board but had been issued the wrong type of I D card, and consequently was not being billed for her meals.

Lacoss blamed confusion over the student's status on the new I.D. cards which are not marked by stickers as the old ones were.

"The measure is not aimed at preventing students from loaning their cards to friends who might inter-house," Lacoss said.

Lacoss also denied a more intensive effort to spot students feeding "friends or cats" in the dining halls.

Checkers in most Houses said they have not encountered problems from students.

However, at Kirkland House, Thursday night, so many residents protested that the check was stopped for the evening