Bottom line: Parking is a mess

It’s time to get real about parking on this campus. It’s funny how faculty and staff are complaining about how students are parking in their spaces and about we need to be ticketed and towed, but I’m wondering whether or not they are considering students have no place to park.
Lets weigh this out. Students pay to come here and faculty is paid to come here, but students have to park in the most inconvenient places on this campus. It doesn’t make sense.
SUPD has gone mad with writing tickets. It has gotten to the point where if they so much as see a student decal they are writing a ticket. We don’t need more parking, what we need is first-come, first-serve. If a student who is going into debt can park a mile away from class and be expected to make it there on time, then so can a professor who is being compensated and comes late anyway.
And what are they doing with all the money being collected for tickets and towing? Ethel Smith, coordinator for traffic and parking, said the money goes into a general fund that can be utilized by any department. If that is true then why don’t they take some of that money they are conning from us for ridiculous tickets and towing, and pave the streets of the campus or invest it in these obsolete dormitories that many us call home?
Either way, I’m sure something useful is being done. Maybe that money is going into someone’s pocket like many other funds have in the past. You have to wonder why the police are so adamant about ticketing and towing.
They are on that more than anything else. Just recently, someone’s car was broken into in front of the bookstore. The radio, CDs and other personal belongings were stolen. But where was SUPD? Writing a ticket perhaps.
It’s sad the most efficient thing on this campus is traffic enforcement. However, that really can’t be called efficient because they’re writing tickets for people that are parked legally. As far as faculty and staff receiving tickets, now they know how students feel.
And in the words of Ethel Smith, “Appeal it.”