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with them or not. My ques*
tion to you is if you park a
few spots away from your
assigned spot, why don't
you just move down those
few spaces to your assigned
spot to begin with? If you
choose to do the crime, be
prepared to pay the fme!
If right and wrong were
determined by conven
ience, then maybe the stu
dent body should demand
valet parking. This would
truly bring an end to the
horrendously stressful park
ing conditions imposed on
Meredith students.
Dear Editor,
I have to say that after I
began reading the opinion
piece on parking in the
September 17th issue, I
started to laugh. Then as I
moved on, I became angry.
The comment that "there is
no place on campus that is
safe to park," is completely
contradictory. Every
assigned parking space is
safe and is assigned specifi
cally for that reason. The
safe place for a commuter
to park is in the commuter
parking lot!
I have been a commuter
for two years and I have
yet to have any problems
finding a parking space. I
refuse to complain about
parking when I have
fnends who attend NC
State and have many more
Dear Editor:
The fme amounts for
tickets are absurd. While I
agree that we should be
fmed for breaking the rules,
I do not think there is any
need for the excessive
amounts of the tickets. I
recently received a parking
ticket because 1 parked in
the doctor’s space outside
of Tech Services. I did not
know that this was the doc
tor’s space because the paint
specifying whose space it
was was covered up. I had
to take my printer and my
computer to Tech Services
to be fixed and since I had
problems with parking than
we have at Meredith. Now,
they have reason to com
plain. If you only have to
leave 20 minutes early
from honie to make it to
class on time, you are
lucky. A fiiend of mine that
attends State has to leave
up to an hour early to reach
class on time and has to be
on campus 20 minutes
before class starts just to
walk across campus to get
to that class. At ECU, there
is virtually no parking. I
attended ECU myself for a
short time and discovered
that even though I was on
the bus line, 1 had to leave
my apartment, which was
only five miles away from
campus, at least 45 minutes
early to be in class on time.
Dealing with parking is
to run an errand, I decided
to just drive over there. I
did not know it was the
doctor’s space and it was
tiie only space open. I
there for 15 minutes and
received a $50 parking
ticket. I think this is crazy!
There are a lot of girls on
this campus who cannot
afford $50.
A $15 or $20 ticket is
understandable. But a $50
ticket? Campus police
needs to give us a break
and lower the fmes.
Meredith Robertson
Class of 2005
a part of college life just
like exams and appltca-
tions-you have to deal with
it and should worry about
things that are more perti
nent and truly have an
impact on your time in col
lege. I wish my major con
cern was due only to how
far I had to walk to class.
Meredith has made this part
of college a lot easier for us
commuters to endure by
having such ample parking.
It is rare for colleges to
have such parking as
Meredith has.
Take responsibility for
your actions. It is not the
college's responsibility to
ensure that you leave home
on time to make it to class.
That is our responsibility as
students. We loiow where
we should park and it is our
responsibility to make
plans to ensure we are on
time. I hate to sound cliche
but if everyone decided to
park in those unused park
ing spaces that was referred
to, then the people that are
assigned to Aose spaces
will be out of luck and they
will have to walk.
And the answer to the
question of whether it is
"worth it to make us pay
$25 more because we are
parked a few spaces down
from our assigned one," is
yes, it is worfli it. It is
called the law. Would you
park in a handicapped spot
when you go to the mall?
No. Meredith is an institu
tion just like any other
where there are rules and
regulations that we must
follow: whether you agree
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