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Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: Views

Mathew Dominguez

This past week I came across something that has been on my mind since I was a freshman. Now a senior, I have finally decided to write a column about it. I don't know why I never did this before considering I am not the only one who feels this way.

For God's sake people, why do you just sit there in your cars waiting for a parking spot thirty minutes before class begins? No one is coming out anytime soon and to be quite honest, you are pissing off every single person behind you.

I know that some of you may not care, but think about this: no one wants to smell gasoline when waiting behind your car. Not only that, but you are killing the environment.

Don't get me wrong, I know how atrocious the parking is here at our university. Students have to park blocks away sometimes and are often late simply because of the lack of efficient parking. Professors may not understand, but the rest of the student body does.

I have been here four years already and the parking has not only gotten worse, but it has also made so many people angry that when I see them walking through the UC, rushing to get to their first class, I can usually sense the anger steaming from their ears.

Many times I have been in the elevator in the library and overheard others talking about the parking. I have heard every complaint in the book from "it sucks" to "they need to hurry up and do something about it."

On top of all this, we are sick and tired of getting the parking tickets just because all the student parking is gone and we park in a faculty zone, even after most of the faculty is gone. There are definitely more students than faculty and even though the tickets are only $15, they do add up.

I see more students parking in the faculty zones than faculty themselves. Shouldn't this say something?

All I have really wanted to see here, aside from close-minded people getting a dose of reality, is an improvement in student parking. That seems like it will never happen, at least not until the majority of students graduate.

I am glad that ASU is moving in a new direction. But making more parking would make the students a lot happier.

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