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
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...
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.
The issue at hand is that Duquesne University students are displeased with the transportation services available to them specifically the SGA Loop Bus. I believe Matt Liberatore speaks for the majority of students when he commented (about the Loop Bus) saying, “It is not as effective as it should be. They’re inconsistent, and aren’t enough prevalent as they should be.” Problems were evident from the beginning of its existence. The Loop Bus is a free service to students of Duquesne University that runs Friday and Saturday beginning at 5:00 in the evening and ending as early as 12:30 and as late as 2:30am. This leads to many cases of being stranded in unfamiliar places throughout the city. Matt also commented on how was inconvenienced during his freshman and sophomore years where he remembers waiting hours until another bus would come because the previous was too small.
The lot is made big and is free to park there. The lot also has lights to make sure that you are secure and your safety
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
College students who are employed with a part-time will most likely have money to afford transportation. Transportation is very important, many people are struggling to get around and without a job it is even harder to find transportation. College students who do not have a job will often ask for a ride since they cannot afford to pay expenses like insurance bills or gas. A car is very important and it is a need in most places. College students that work part-time would not have to worry about paying transportation expenses and do not have to depend on getting a ride from somebody else. One of the big expenses is car insurance and since most college students are new drivers, the prices on auto insurance are pretty high. Everyone needs to pay auto insurance in order to drive, and those who do not have a job will less likely to afford something like this. Also, the demand on gas is going up and as more people use gas, the more gas prices go up. Therefore students who work part-time will be able to at least afford gas money to move around back and forth.
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.
With parking becoming increasingly tight, the restrictions need to be adhered to. • East lot: There is no general-purpose staff parking in the
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.
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