The Clark security office sold cards for children to wear during their visit to the campus on Take Your Child to Work Day. Faculty and staff lined up to purchase the cards on April 24.  
 
    The cards, which sold for $5, were designed by Program Support Supervisor Lynn Van Hoomissen from the security department.
 
    “The money we earned from selling the cards is used to pay for the (Clark) ID cards,” Van Hoomissen says. “They’re very expensive.”
 
    The cards have a picture of Oswald, the school mascot, on the front and back, but on the front of the card a picture of the child is placed.
 
    VanHoomissen says she doesn’t know how many faculty members bought the cards, but she says there were a lot.
 
    “Every time I came out of the office I saw a line of seven to eight faculty members, with their children, in line,” Van Hoomissen says.
 
    Some cards were not purchased at the security office, but instead were purchased online.
 
    “Four people pre-ordered their cards online,” Beverly Brosius, a security informant, says. “They just sent pictures of their children and we put them on the cards.”
 
    The cards were sold on the day that the security office was moved into the new Gaiser Hall (GHL) and during the same week the bookstore held its grand opening.
 
    “It was very busy,” Van Hoomisen says. “From 8 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. we were trying to sell cards and move into our new office.”
 
    According to an e-mail sent out by the security department, some of the Clark administrative policies on children visiting the campus are: Children are prohibited from visiting hazardous areas, such as laboratories, kitchens and workshops, and the employee that brought the child to the workplace is responsible for keeping the child within his or her sight and sound at all times. In addition, the employee may not ask any other employee or student to supervise or otherwise care for the child, and the emloyee who brought the child to the workplace is responsible for all aspects of the child's behavior.  
 
    “We did this last year, but it was kind of a last minute thing,” Van Hoomissen says. “We only sold about 10.”
 
    “This year we were more concerned with the moving into the new offices than the cards, but we still focused a lot on the cards,” Van Hoomissen says. “We really didn’t advertise enough.”
 
    Van Hoomisen says they found out they were going to move into the offices on Monday because they were waiting for furniture to be approved by Plant Services, which was approved last Wednesday. “We knew for sure on Monday,” she says.
 
    The security office is going to do the same thing next year, with the same card, but Van Hoomissen says that next time, they will only have to worry about the cards.