Parking at Wichita State University is terrible. Residents of Shocker Hall and Fairmount Towers are mostly affected by this; they are forced to park almost two and a half miles from their dorms - and an on-call shuttle system has been set up for them by the administration. If students wanted to park for free close to campus, the most ideal place they would consider parking, is on the streets. However, this has become a problem to the neighborhoods around campus as complains of driveway infringements from the adjacent local resident has been brought to the administration’s attention. Coupled with parking availability, now students can park on campus only if they purchased a $120 parking permit annually. Prior to this parking was free to all …show more content…
Any Wichita State student who has a valid driver’s license is eligible to hire a car for seven dollars per hour. Furthermore, my question is, will the low-income students afford this facility that is being offered by the Wichita State administration? Some of the international students scarcely have enough for themselves and the only way they can have any income is if they are able to secure a decent job on campus. The transportation system at Wichita State is an issue that must be considered. Moreover, the university wouldn’t say how much it spent on setting up the transportation system that led to the layoff of the nine …show more content…
This is surprising because every decision that was drummed upon affects the students either directly or indirectly. By the same token, the president of the student organizations claims that he was left in the dark on these matters. Unfortunately, he was informed after the administration had already made most of the decisions. Not only did the administration lay off the nine employees but also raise the parking permit from $120 to $150 annually. Again, I ask, will the low-income students afford this? Comparatively, most of the time the parking spaces were all filled up by 8:30 a.m. In addition, those who did not want to pay for the parking permit, would park at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex and ride the shuttle. The shuttle has a fixed schedule, and if a student happens to miss one, the minimum waiting time for the next shuttle is approximately twenty minutes. This is inconvenient for most students who already own a car. Moreover, the amount of money that has been collected in parking fees has slumped while that which has been collected from parking tickets has increased from $55,339 in fall 2014 to $223,967 in fall 2015 according to the university’s
Reducing the prices for the CSUF parking is necessary and important since there are so few parking spots available. About a majority of the students who are commuting to Cal State Fullerton own a parking permit, yet they probably would state that it
The group responsible for this travesty are the creators of the service themselves, the Student Government Association (SGA). The SGA used its power to respond to the lack of transpor...
The cost of these two hundred or so signs is close to seventy-eight thousand dollars. The money from the passes could be used for this expense as well. Although residents of Riverbank may object to the signs and call them nonsense, they will help the tourists know they cannot park in certain places. If a person is found parking on the street without a parking pass, they will be subject to a fifty dollar fine. Police will be very important in this aspect and will patrol the city everyday just like normal, but they will also be looking for this
Giving young uneducated adults a chance to be hood, black, tough, wild and drunk at the same time was a risk they were willing to take. After the party Monday night sadly, the madness was not over. Thursday, in UCSD’s Geisel Library a noose was found hanging in clear sight. This was a hateful form of a joke from an unknown UCSD student, who still has not been caught. This was the last straw for most of the black and brown students at UCSD. Depending on which students you ask they would say justice has not been served. According to Julianne Hing, “Students are angry that even though university administrators like Chancellor Mary Anne Fox have been quick to respond in support of Black students on campus, they have also distanced themselves from the Compton Cookout incident. Campus administration initially mentioned that because the Compton Cookout was officially an off-campus event, no further action would be pursued against the perpetrators.” Some students believe that administration was quick to response when they heard about the actions, but still have not jumped to their defense. Since the incident no serious actions have taken place because no one has been suspended. The frats that host the party were brought in for questioning, but everyone denies any
College Avenue in downtown State College divides Penn State’s campus (University Park) from the town. Walking down these sidewalks demonstrates the difference between these two with shops and restaurants on one side and classroom buildings, dormito...
The first thing you do when you reach the stadium is search for a parking place. Although the price to park at the Hilton motel is fifteen dollars, yo...
Parking on Campus is a Pain New students entering Concordia College are not permitted to have a car on campus. With each new freshman class entering every year, parking represents an issue. Concordia is as of now constrained in its parking on campus and since first year students are not permitted to have cars, the students are confronted with the problem of having no place to park or parking very a long way from their goal. There are parking issues everywhere throughout the campus, making backups in residence hall and other lots, bringing about students parking illegally to avoid from walking far distances, which can be very aggravating in the bitter cold. Parking nearer appears like the reasonable thing to do, however it is a hazard, which
Why would someone decide to go against school board decisions? By having symbolic protests, there would be less disruptions and less chaos. Usually what people think of when they hear protests is chaos, fire, and violence. Now if the students would’ve chose to have a protest with signs and chaos, that would’ve been a bigger problem. When the kids chose to go against the school board, they hurt themselves because when you go against adults in a school you could never win because they have the more power. If the kids wanted to be smart about the protest, they would’ve conducted it more silent and wouldn't even let the school board find out about it.
Most parking available in downtown cost money and time. Even the parking spaces available are very limited and not everyone could afford it. The parking decks in downtown belong to some companies. Most of those companies even make their own employee pay for it. As for the city, they have some free parking spaces which are limited to the public. Many of those parking spaces in Downtown Atlanta are usually not free. Atlanta is not the only state in America who does not provide free parking for their customers, workers, or tourists alike. For instance New York downtown charges for their parking. They are many parking meters on the sides of the roads where you can park your car for a limited period of time. Atlanta Downto...
On 02/02/16 is when I parked my truck in the Blatt parking lot. I would like to start by saying that I paid $100 for a parking pass to park my car. Only to find out that the Blatt PE Center parking lot would be full of people parking for free (with not tickets being issued). Every weekday evening until late at night swimming practice is help at blatt. Along with that comes tons and tons of parents and high school students who need to park their cars. So they all park in the Blatt PE lot. They fill the lot up everyday and even line the rows waiting for students to walk up so they can follow them to their cars and take their spots. There parents and high schoolers are parking in the spots that I have paid to park and they pay nothing. Something
Parking by the dormitories is almost impossible. Students who live at particular dorms find themselves faced with the problem of having to park on the other side of campus. Those who live in Brown Hall, which is behind the Thompson center, have the most parking problems on campus. This is because the Thompson center is a very large building housing various departments on campus. Therefore it receives a lot of traffic all day. Visitors to the campus are taking over the parking lots around the Thompson center, which is forcing students to park other places on campus and some students chose to disregard the signs posted for reserved parking.
Since her time here at Marymount, Alexx Holmes a sophomore resident on campus has run into numerous parking incidents. " I started working at Hooters in Fairfax my freshmen year so I was given permission for a parking pass so I could get to and from work. Many nights I wouldn't get back from work until after midnight. I lived in Rowley, and after an incident of a customer trying to follow me home; I hated walking from the White Garage to Rowley that late at night. So I began parking in the faculty parking lot outside of Butler so I could go in through that entrance.
In college, attendance is crucial to students’ success. Being late to class can result in having less time to take a test or missing fundamental concepts that may be discussed in a classroom. Students must take responsibility by arriving on time; however, limited parking spaces and other transportation problems at many universities can cause students to be late which can result in poor academic performance. The University of Texas at San Antonio, one of most populous cities in Texas, has 29,000 enrolled students (UTSA . . .). During peak hours, one must be timely to find a parking space; many students find themselves driving in circles while hoping to find someone else leaving the campus and others wait for a shuttle bus that has a reputation of arriving late. Due to transportation problems, some students may feel unmotivated to study in the library or go to class regularly. Therefore, the University of Texas at San Antonio should improve student transportation because doing so could increase students’ academic performance.
looking for a parking space, and waiting in line. There are many ways to save time and
having a car or even renting an apartment. Not only were these students being treated as