I figured I would split this up into a second part since two blogs of 300 words each would be easy to write in regards to parking tickets. Anyways, on to part two.
I was driving back from HyVee today and saw some students moving out of Vollmer and Grossman, when sure enough the Wartburg Security cart came rolling up to check how long students had been parking there and whether they had gone over the time limit.
Look, I'm all for checking parking time limits, but to be so steadfast is kind of ridiculous. Students are stressed enough trying to remember everything to pack into their trucks, whether they took apart their lofts correctly and how their going to fool their RA into thinking they put their room back correctly. The last thing they want to see when moving their refrigerator into their car is an orange sticker underneath their windshield wipers.
That being said, if students are taking up three hours in the same spot, they deserve to get a fine. Especially with street space being as crowded as it is, there's no need to keep your 2001 Ford Focus on the curb for three hours as you reminisce with your roommate about all of the illegal alcohol you drank over the year and how you're definitely not going to miss the freshman bathrooms.
That is the one time that I'll advocate for Wartburg Security on parking tickets. Students should be conscientious of others, and when they aren't they deserve to pay the consequence.
As I do in every other blog, I just want to say thanks to Wartburg Security Officers. They get a huge amount of flak from students in terms of parking ticket discrepancies, but in the end what they do is because it keeps us safer. And that is what it's all about.
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