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Shirley Lin, a second-year nursing student, swipes her card at one of the access stations on the Hill. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)

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UCLA is finishing up installing new access card readers in residence halls, causing mixed reactions among students. Students with new BruinCards can tap them on the new card readers to enter the residence halls, instead of swiping.

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New BruinCard readers allow residents to tap instead of swipe cards

By Sujung Hahn

Nov. 18, 2014 1:20 a.m.