On-Campus Parking Procedure

After receiving 30 credit hours at Southern University, on-campus students are able to register their vehicles. I, being a first time sophomore, have anticipated this moment for the duration of my time as a student here. After getting my sticker, I placed it in the designated spot on my windshield, and then realized I had no idea where I was actually allowed to park. As a result, I parked in front of my apartment again, and just walked to class.
After some asking around, I was advised to park in the lot adjacent to A.W. Mumford Stadium, simply because it was designated as the “student parking lot”. After a few days of parking there ticket free, I was convinced I’d finally figured out the puzzle, that is parking on SU campus. However, after parking there one Friday morning, I found a red slip beneath my windshield wiper. I’d received my first ticket for parking in the STUDENT parking lot.
After some discussion with my peers who also own cars, we realized that no one from the vehicle registration office had notified us on where we could and could not park. I assume they just assumed we knew the rules already. Well, that’s incorrect.
Southern University’s parking procedure needs to be reevaluated in order to improve the issuance of the passes, and provide more options for on-campus student parking. Currently, all that is given to a driver after registering their vehicle is a pass and receipt. There is no verbal or written instruction on where one can and cannot park. If the Office of Vehicle Registration can come up with a form that notifies all drivers on where they are allowed to park with their respective stickers, there would be significantly less confusion on the driver’s part, and fewer tickets issued simply because of miscommunication. It’s not like producing a letter is doing anything out of their job descriptions.
Current procedures are very vague. If a form is issued along with the parking pass notifying on-campus residential drivers where we can and cannot park, we wouldn’t get those lovely slips underneath our windshield wipers. No one will have to feel like I did when I walked to my car and saw that ticket patiently waiting for me to pick it up.