April 19, 2002

With the Latest Technology, Students Find That Creating Fake ID's Is Easy

By DAN CARNEVALE

While some college students are out drinking and hitting the clubs, others are hard at work mastering computerized graphic design -- so they can make fake ID's for drinking and hitting the clubs.

Although students have been using fake ID's to purchase alcohol for decades, police officials lately have found that students are using computers to create authentic-looking driver's licenses and other forms of identification. Just since February, police officers have caught students on