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I have never heard anyone call this a reg card. Time to change the name of the page? —JeremyOgul

Get out more often. —WilliamLewis


Ha. Ha. You're joking right? Because I'm completely serious. The only place I've heard it referred to as a "reg card" is on Davis Wiki, and maybe by my freshman orientation leader once or twice. —Jeremy

As an undergrad, everyone on campus referred to a "reg card". I was asked for mine on a daily basis. —CurlyGirl26


I've never heard of anyone calling it anything else, not even just a 'card'. Go figure.—JoePomidor

Perhaps the term has changed over time?

People still call them reg cards. Freshmen may not call them that, Jeremy, but other people do. —AllisonEriksen

I interact with more than just freshmen and I can assure you that it is not limited to them. I hope everyone realizes that I'm not suggesting that "reg card" is wrong in any way or that no one uses that term, I'm just saying that in my experience it's not the de facto name. I do think it's a trend. —Jeremy

Google still calls them reg cards too.

They were reg cards for many years. I think the change may have occurred when they changed the student identifiers to something other than your SSN - but I could be wrong about that. —IDoNotExist

I almost always called it a reg card. I called it an ID card a few times and felt very odd about it, and the phrase "student id" was synonymous with it, but I and all my friends still said reg card instead. —ElleWeber

Do people still not get that anecdotal evidence is completely meaningless in a debate? —JesseSingh

• Feel free to post a link to a study, published in a respectable journal, which clearly states the proportions of the student body who use the different terms.-JoePomidor
  

• Oh good, and there's the "Oh yeah? And what's your plan???" response so common in politics today. So because I criticize anecdotal evidence as a material fallacy (which it is regardless of what else I present), I have to provide a decent counter-example? No, I don't. That doesn't dissuade my original comment. -JesseSingh
  

• This isn't a debate, either formal or informal — it's a group of people trying to quickly resolve a practical issue somebody raised and then move on. —jw
  

• I understand that, but how is it going to be resolved? What's the metric of resolution? To have a dozen people say "Everyone I know says 'reg cards', so there!"? To have two dozen? What I'm saying is that there won't be any real resolution to this issue if we're taking a headcount of anecdotal evidence. I'm not offering a solution to this (though the fact the term 'reg card' is used on various 'UC Davis' websites is an important supporting evidence), but do you see the fallacy here? My gripe isn't that it's a meaningless issue, it's that this is entirely why these talk pages degenerate into thousands of lines that no sane person would thoroughly read. General consensus is more or less meaningless on the Wiki. I'll write something more clearly on my profile, I think. —JesseSingh

• There's no "resolution" because there's no debate. The language has changed, but doesn't change uniformly. People who were introduced to UCD's card as a "reg card" call it that, unless they have been exposed to the new term, either at UCD, or at another school with a different name for it. Some who are exposed to the new name will use it. Some will keep using the old name. People who have never heard "reg card" but learned "student ID" will use the new term. The use of the old term may continue until old reg card holders die off. —IDoNotExist
  

• Thank you. This is the only response in this page that matters: It's completely true. Whatever people refer to these cards should all link to the same page. "Reg Cards", "Student IDs", "Hoozapalooza Thingies", it doesn't matter. And this talk page should be closed. —JesseSingh
  

• I agree, whatever is the prevailing way of referring to them is what the page should be called. It is now clear that the prevailing name (among people who frequently read Recent Changes) is still Reg Card. But I think we needed to have this page in order to determine that. And I don't necessarily think that "reg card" is the prevailing name if you ask every student on campus, but that's not what this page is representing, and I therefore rest my case. —Jeremy
  

• Well said. —jw

The reg card used to be used for more than just reging. It also carried meal plan data (or at least an identifier for your meal plan consumption), and possibly other data. Is that true of the current ID card? —IDoNotExist

It's currently used for identification, bus usage, library usage, getting into dorms, getting into the 24-hour study room, getting into the ARC, as a debit card at certain on-campus places, and meal plan stuff. Oh yeah, and just about everyone still calls it a reg card. The only people I encounter that regularly call it "student id" are non-university affiliates or newly arrived students. My professors, RAs, and colleagues consistently call it a "reg card." -wl

I find that people who have been around for a long time are more likely to call it a reg card, but nearly everyone I meet calls it a student ID card. Personally, I like the name "student ID card" better, just because it sounds better to me. :-) Also, it makes more sense than calling it a reg card, since it is used for more than registration. What might make even more sense, given how many things it is used for now, is to call it something like the "UCD card" or "Davis Card" or something like that. MIT has called its student ID card the MIT Card for years. That describes its association with MIT, but not the multitude of functions that the card is used for. —IDoNotExist

I've always heard it called a reg card, student ID card is for DJUSD and the like... —StevenDaubert

• Daubert says it's a reg card, thread over! -BL

I recently went to get a new ID card because my old one was damaged, and all the signs in the Registrar's office in Mrak Hall said "Please have your Student ID ready" and "Get your Student ID here". Also, at the CoHo today I noticed a big sign on a pillar that said "Student ID and/or Aggie Cash not accepted." I'd say it's not Reg Card. —OscarSabino

It's called a Reg card on several official websites including Student Housing, TAPS, legal services, some departments, and is described in the grad school, reentry and undergrad fall welcome publications (note some of those are PDFs). It seems to also be called Student ID in some other places as well (as Oscar notes above), but the term "Reg Card" is certainly in "official" usage, and is the term given in several orientation publications and the phrase listed as an official requirement for various campus resources. —jw