Henderson State University - Star Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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30lParking llll fill llllllll li SEO? Cillliilllllllllllb llilifl U Pllhllllllldii By Vicki lo Schlimgen and Terri Rouse A car pulls up to the union at 7:55 AM, the driver almost late for class-not a second to lose. Oh, great, no parking places! What the hell am I going to do now? If this sounds familiar, you are probably just one of 3000 students who faced the same complaints this year. There was definitely a problem with the parking situation on the HSU campus. Note: we said problem, not necessarily shortage. Everything has been griped about, whatever the students could take into their own hands to solve the problem they did, but it didn't do much good. They were still faced with the same problem, I didn't have a place to park my wheels. The main crisis were: Not ample spaces to park, residents taking up places before commuters could get to them, faculty taking up student parking, students parking in faculty and reserved spaces, and parking tickets. Places to park-At the last count there were 1237 paved marked spaces excluding Wells. This does not include the dirt lots by the Fine Arts building and the Pines dormitory lot, but they certainly do make up the difference between the number of spaces and the number of cars with a sticker which allows them to be parked on the campus grounds. 1825 cars have parking stickers. What happens to the other 577 cars which have the privilege but not the space in which to park? This is cultimated with the faculty problem. There are 372 faculty cars registered to park on campus, but only 70 spaces designated for faculty parking. Therefore, faculty members can park in student spaces, but students cannot park in faculty spaces . . . The administration has not ignored these prob- Iems but the immediate problem cannot be solved until at least this summer. The Student Govern- ment Association has sent committees countless times to Dean Bob johnston to bring solutions to these problems, but as a student body they don't carry enough weight to do much about it. The fee for getting a parking sticker is 55, payable at registration. The fines for parking on campus with- out a sticker start at 51. Some areas of interest where parking is a problem is the back lot of the Student Union building, the dormitories tnamely Pinesi, Arkansas Hall, the Library, and the Fine Arts building. The dirt lot at Russell Fine Arts would fit about 100 cars, but because it is not paved, students park haphazardly, and about 50 per cent of the space is wasted. Pines dorm has a circular drive, but it only fits 20-25 cars for the more than 60 residents. The Pan- hellenic House currently has no parking facilities 'at all, and every Monday night police patrol the street to give tickets to offenders. Continued on page 32 V L ... ' .- .til