Coyote Card office announces transition to ‘contactless’ cards
USD’s Coyote Card Office announced in an email today that all new Coyote Cards issued from now on will feature new contactless technology, enabling the cards to be touched to a sensor rather than swiped.
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Hana Russell, a Coyote Card Office secretary, said there are numerous benefits to the new cards, including durability.
“They’re much sturdier,” Russel said. “The old ones, sometimes they’d break when you swipe them, all that stuff. So far, the only ones of the new card stock that have broken have been accidents like getting run over.”
The email also discussed the convenience of the new cards, which can be used even inside a wallet.
The email noted that Coyote Cards with the new feature should not be hole punched to be used with a key chain. The reason for this, Russell said, is that the new cards feature a wire that runs around the inner perimeter of the card, and a punching a hole into the card will sever the wire – though the magnetic stripe will generally not be affected.
“If you hole punch, it’s basically impossible to miss that wire,” Russell said. “So that’s why the contact stops working, but the back still works.”
The Coyote Card Office conducted a test-run of the contactless cards for several months before deciding to completely eliminate the magnetic stripe-only cards. All 2016 first-years were issued contactless Coyote Cards at the beginning of this year.
Many card-swipe locations across campus, such as the outer doors at most residents halls, now have contactless functionality, as do several Aramark locations. The Wellness Center, for the time being, will remain swipe-only, Russell said.
Anyone currently holding a magnetic stripe-only card can go to the Coyote Card Office and obtain a new contactless card for $20, though the old cards will continue to be functional. A broken contactless card, if it’s not lost, can be replaced for free.
