Current Release: September 11th, 2007 | Vol. XXIV Iss. 10

Photo By Alexandra Drogus

Parking continues to be a concern on campus

By Megan Fedele

mbfedele@vwc.edu

Virginia Wesleyan’s parking has become tight. Due to the record amount of student attendance it’s hard to find a space. The college’s ten-year master plan reveals a solution students will greatly appreciate; a parking deck. While that may be ten years away the student hand book states that, “additional parking spaces will be designated as the need for more parking spaces arises.”

Students will take anything at this point. “Parking is horrible. I have two options; get a ticket or park all the way at the baseball field everyday,” said Chris Deanes, senior.

“Parking stinks. I have to walk a mile to get to class,” said Ashley DiGregorio, junior.

Students pay a $50 parking fee per year at the beginning of each fall semester.

“We have enough parking,” said Dean Buckingham, “and we’re adding more with the completion of Village IV parking before the end of the semester.”

Those spaces, understandably, do come with limitations. The on-going construction and lack of lights at night will not be driver friendly.

The handbook also states that, “it is the driver’s responsibility to find a legal parking place. Lack of a convenient space is not a valid excuse for violating parking regulations.”

The same rule that is carried out and accepted everyday, in any parking lot.

“There are spaces available; some of them are less convenient than others. That’s true, so it is the student’s responsibility to find a space that is properly marked,” said Buckingham. T

he parking situation is a temporary one for the school to complete new housing for their students.

Once those are finished, a parking deck will conveniently serve many students a space in one place.

Both are proposed for the long term.