University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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By: Kaleigh Webb Photos: Austin McAfee As the number of enrolled students increases, Ole Miss students find cam- pus parking lots are starting to become smaller and smaller. By 9am vehicles circle lots like vultures, desperately look- ing for a place before having to dash to class. For the 2011-2012 school year, 14,590 parking decals were sold to stu- dents. Only 12,622 space are available for students to park in on campus. I think the parking on campus is aw- ful, said Hannah Arnold, sophomore Psychology major. They should put a limit on how many parking passes they sell to students. Commuters received the shortest end of the parking stick. 7,722 decals were sold and only 3,454 parking spots are available. I usually try to leave my apartment 30 minutes before a class starts, just to find a parking space and be at class on time, said Sophomore Public Policy Leadership major Adam Blackwell. It ' s often quite difficult to find a spot in the central parking lots on campus, unless you have class at 8am. Blackwell said he would build a park- ing garage near the Tad Pad or the Foot- ball stadium, if he had the choice. It would be perfect for game days and would work very well during the school year, as well. said Blackwell. However, lack of parking isn ' t just restricted to commuting students. Stu- dents who live on the Ole Miss campus are also finding it difficult to park their vehicles on campus. Guess Hall had an overflow of cars when 107 parking deals were sold for a parking lot of only 95 spots. Unlucky Guess residents found themselves parking in the commuter lot up the hill in the Kincannon lot. Sophomore Journalism major Ca- mille Mullins was forced to circle the parking lot for the Luckyday Residential College for forty five minutes searching for a spot. Dorms only have enough parking for the students who live in the build- ing, said Mullins. So if anyone else parks there the students are out of luck and we get a ticket. The opinions on how to fix the park- ing problem varied from student to stu- dents. Ideas ranging from limiting park- ing passes, ending ticketing and overflow lots were all mentioned. However, the call for a easier ticketing and a parking garage was the most Senior Managerial Finance major Ben Whitehead proposes that at new ticketing process could ease the pain of paying for tickets. He pro- posed a more relaxed ticketing method that would allow students to gain three strikes before having to pay for a ticket. I recently paid an $85 parking ticket on campus for parking some- where for ten minutes, said Whitehead. There was no reason for that ticket. I should have gotten a warning instead. Whitehead has accumulated over 30 parking tickets this year alone. He is only one of many students who have fallen victim to the pain of Ole Miss parking. 1 18 ■ Student Life

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Not paying your tickets can re? an even bigger fine -- a bo. Where you ' re parked doesn ' t earn you the boot, but receiving three tickets jTfJdying TOTAL SPOTS AVAILABLE: 12,622 FINES: Commuter Residence Hall Decal: $15 First Offense $25 second offense $45 third offense. South Lot Old Walmart Deca $30 First offense $50 second offense $90 third offense. TOTAL DECALS SOLD: 14,590 DECAL PRICES: Resident Hall Non Resident Hall: $75 South Lot Old Walmart: $20 Additional vehicles $15 per vehicle Parking Painsa