Parking proposal deserves approval

Friday, February 17, 2006

Parking on campus has become increasingly difficult and costly as the student body at the University has grown. More and more students have begun to drive to class from their off-campus residences.

This is being dealt with primarily through the creation of a new Park and Ride lot on West Campus. The cost of the lot is estimated at nearly $10 million and is being paid for, at least in part, by the dramatic increase in the cost of parking permits that occurred at the beginning of the fall semester.

Accompanying this cost increase was the perhaps more symbolic action of closing the yellow lot to the east of JRP Hall from the hours of 4 to 6 a.m. to free up space for commuters.

This has prevented the influx of overflow parking from nearby sororities into the lot. As a result, this overflow parking has moved primarily to the stadium lot at the bottom of the hill.

Members of Chi Omega sorority, Gamma Phi Beta sorority and Sigma Kappa sorority, citing safety concerns related to the distance they now must walk and the poor lighting in the area, recently proposed a compromise to the parking commission, in which they would pay for a specialized “overnight” permit that would allow them to park in the lot until 8 a.m.

The parking commission considered this issue during its monthly meeting Tuesday. The committee moved to advise Provost David Shulenburger to allow the sale of an overnight parking pass to accommodate this overflow parking under the condition that those who park there must move their cars by 7:30 a.m. in order to allow space for students, faculty and staff whose days begin at 8 a.m.

This certainly seems reasonable. However, there needs to be a greater penalty than the standard parking ticket put into place.

A harsher penalty would ensure that this privilege isn’t taken advantage of — whether it’s doubling the existing fine or some similar punishment.

The potential to retain the symbolism inherent in the initial act, while at the same time providing for the ostensibly reasonable request of a select group of students, is a realistic possibility and one that should come to pass.

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