University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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An all-to-familiar sight around campus: the tow truck.

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Students, armed with their trusty parking stickers, braved the reahties of cruel mathematics again this year. Three into two won ' t go. Each morning, students face the famihar ordeal of attempting to squeeze between two Volkswagons and go unnoticed by Campus Security. During the three week grace period allowed students to purchase permits, 5,695 day and night students rushed to Annex 31. Weeks after the grace period, students were still purchasing permits on a per year or semester basis. It was as if no one had told them that there were only 1,582 spaces available. While things were no better this year, at least they got a Httle worse. Construction of the new library took 337 spaces from grasping students while car pool parking is taking 65 spaces. In parking lot W, west of 66th street, 175 spaces were added, but it ' s obvious students still come up short. In order of importance, faculty lost two spaces, the staff picked up 49 and on the lower end of the social order students lost 262 spaces. All in all, faculty and staff have a third of the number of spaces students have. Since we know the campus is run as a democracy with equaHty for all, there must be five thousand faculty and staff members, or a third the number of students. Some thing went wrong somewhere. The car pool experiment, which received only a lukewarm response last year, picked up some converts this year. Over one hundred car pool permits were sold the first semester. Meanwhile, Elmwood Park and nearby residential districts continue to be camping grounds for hundreds of student cars, many with parking stickers displayed proudly on the rear window. One likely reason for this is that Elmwood Park is no farther from much of the campus than parking lot W, which is over a half mile away from the Administration Building. Solutions to the parking problem filter in, but are shot down just as quickly. Ak-Sar-Ben parking is considered unworkable by the Chancellor unless Elmwood parking is prohibited. Fat chance, respond the students. High-rise parking is retreating further into the background as being too expensive a proposition. The Gateway ' s suggestion of auction- ing parking spaces to even out student and faculty chances for good spaces never got off the ground. The ravine, as we all know, is still a ravine.