To the editor:
Well, it's not as if anyone likes the UK Parking division. However, I saw something so comical in its stupidity last Friday night that I thought everyone might like to know about it.
UK apparently has decided that it is being far too generous in letting anyone else use its parking spaces (when there's no other use for it). The E lot over next to LaserQuest is now patrolled 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Yes, that's right - UK Parking is willing to pay people to go out at all hours of the night to make sure that those nasty, horrible people aren't keeping faculty and staff from parking in that lot. I'm certain all those faculty and staff are overjoyed with the better parking situation late at night.
And why not? It's a profitable venture. They put up a couple of little signs, and now they get to write hundreds of tickets. I went by there on Friday night around 10 p.m. A UK parking employee was there, busily writing tickets - 15 minutes later, every car in the lot had one. That alone paid for the signs, I'm sure.
A bit later, when people started coming out and throwing a fit, there were three - count 'em, three - UK police cars there (in case of rioting, I suppose).
Combined with the "Evening Passes" and the doubling of rates, the situation looks fairly hopeless. It's a pity that the most efficient part of this school is the parking patrol.
Chris Dotson
Math and computer science senior
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