Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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1 Right: A common sight in Indiana. Below: Restrictiuns on paiking create problems for drivers at I LP. 20 Lifestyle Center: The person parked here risks a ticket. Right: The HVn park- ing lot during its construction. mi0}L4; ' i r:3m . -» . ; v.

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... every- body likes to park where they ' re not allowed to park. Ooun Mici k The Memorial Fieldhouse parking lot is alttays full on weekdays with commuters ' cars. Parking: The Eternal Headache Doug Macek ' hat ' s one thing that lUP faculty, staff and com- niutef students have in common? Piobiems with paiking on campus, said Eugene Thomas of the lUP campus police. The next question you may asi is, what is being done about the pioblem? Robert Marx, the direc- tor of campus planning, said each year about two projects involving paving are done. What we have been doing here is building new facilities and upgrading existing facilities foi ' parking, said Marx. The student union parking area and the lot located outside Whitmyre Hall are two examples of this work. Marx said that he doesn ' t re- ceive many of the complaints on parking problems, but said most are received by campus police. There ' s 4lways complaints whenever you have a controlled situation of parking like we have. You ' re going to have complaints because everybody likes to park where they ' re not allowed to park, said Thomas. Thomas said that the campus police do not like to tow cars, but if someone is unauthorized in a reserved space on campus or is a consistent violator of parking in fire lanes oi ' handicapped spaces, they will be towed. The 80 re- served parking spaces on campus are paid for each semester and when someone who is unautho- rized paiks in the space, the per- son permitted to park there can call campus police and have the car towed, said Thomas. One of the biggest complaints about parking on campus is that people can ' t find a parking space, said Thomas. There is about an even number of complaints from faculty, staff and students, he said. Adult student Karen Thomas said she doesn ' t find it a pioblem to park early in the morning be- fore an 8 a.m. class, but if she comes to campus later in the morning, she has difficulty find- ing a space. There are not enough spaces anywhere, she said. There needs to be more central locations. Fi ' eshman Susan Fox said she has had similar ' experience with finding a parking space. She too had problems finding a parking place in the latter part of the morning. I was lucky to find a pai ' king space there (the .Memorial Field House parking lot), said Fox. Thomas said if drivers went to one of the larger lots and then went to the stadium lot, they would save the time it takes to drive around campus searching for a space and be able to walk to their office or class in a shorter amount of time. One way to help diminish the parking problem would be for more people to carpool, said Thomas. Campus police have a listing of all drivers who would be willing to carpool. which is taken from the application form for parking permits, said Thomas. —Kim Davis Parking 21