The Carmichael Recreation Center began allowing students entrance into the facility with only their student ID number this semester, but Dawn Sanner, director of facilities and operations for Carmichael Complex, said not all the ID numbers access students’ necessary information on the gym’s computers.

“Not every single picture makes it to our system,” Sanner said.

An unknown computer error caused students’ pictures to be unaccessible upon entering their numbers. Jordan Cherry, a sophomore in business management and international studies and employee at the center, said it happened with many freshmen.

To make sure they knew who was using the building, Sanner said Carmichael employees began taking students’ names and ID numbers and putting them in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. She said she has sent this information over to the AllCampus Center twice a week, so they can add it and ensure it will work in the future.

When a student’s picture does not appear on-screen, Sanner said employees will usually check a driver’s license photo, and may take the picture for the gym’s database.

“If we’re not busy, [we’ll even] take a person’s picture there,” she said. “Usually, [students] don’t want to stop — they just want to get through and go work out.”

According to Sanner, the number of pictures employees have had to take and information they’ve had to record has lessened recently, so the issue should be resolved soon.

The gym began the new system of allowing students to enter with student ID numbers after students complained of having to carry their AllCampus cards between one part of the gym to the new Recreation Center, Sanner said.

While Cherry said people have responded well to the new system, she said she did not think it has motivated more people come to use the facility.

“But it’s probably made it more convenient,” she said.

And with people working toward New Years’ Resolutions, Spenser Johnson, a freshman in computer engineering and an employee, said there have been more people buying memberships.

One inconvenience Sanner said was eliminated by the new ID-number system is that students no longer have to use cards when they attend a physical education class.

“Before, if you had a class and no ID, you had to come in at the tennis entrance, which is our slowest one,” she said.

After entering there, students would have to get a temporary PE pass to allow them to enter, but Sanner said this is no longer necessary.

“As long as you have an ID number, you’re golden,” she said.

According to Sanner, the only time a student would need their AllCampus card would be for a recreational program like intramural basketball.