Campus policy

The parking policies on campus are absurd. Why is it that the lots behind the colliseum don't allow overnighht parking? They are the biggest lots on campus and we can only park there during the day. The University claims that they did it to open up parking for commuters. That doesn't make any sense. If a resident can't find a place to keep there car elsewhere, they are going to move there car back to those lots in the morning before they go to class. This would happen before the commuters even get to campus. So essentially what the University has accomplished is to decrease parking for residents, without opening up anything for commuters. So why would the University do this? I also heard of them telling people about a security issue, but its really not very safe for everyone to be moving there cars around all the time. Once again, nothing accomplished. So what could the University be accomploshing by doing this? I can tell you exactly what they've accomplished. They managed to sell every last one of their garage spaces, and still have people wanting to buy them. The only way to get a guarunteed space is to pay the university another $300 plus for a space in the garage.

I also think that all university parking meters should be canned. This could open up a lot in front of capstone and the lot in front of the BA building. I can see why they might want to make that particular lot a teacher's lot, but they could make one of the existing teacher lots a student lot. I think that visitor parking should be left up to city parking meters. Another thing is that most of the people I see parked in the Capstone parking meters are people that have USC parking passes.