Letter: Updates needed for lot changes

There is a lot of construction going on around campus; no one can deny that.

With this construction there have come a few road closings and other matters concerning the student body.

I can honestly say that the e-mails sent out on the list-serve warning of road closings has been, if not helpful on a personal level, a very courteous thing to do.

What has happened to this favorable approach? Monday night at 7:25, I got a parking ticket for parking in C-lot (the lot right across the street from the IACC), and I know I’m not the only one as most of the cars in the lot had white paper on their windshields.

I would be OK with this if I had knowingly violated the parking rules, but as it stands, I had no idea.

I don’t know exactly when it was changed, and I don’t care. To switch the lot to “Permit required at all times” from “after 4:30 p.m. it’s fair game” is stingy to start with, but not letting anyone know is equally, if not more, contentious.

Maybe they did send an e-mail out; I guess I don’t know, but if one was sent, it was inconspicuous enough for me, and at least 20 others, to not notice it.

The authorities have valid points; I give them that. Yes, I could park in the visitor’s parking lot when visiting the IACC, but why when I could be right across the street?

Yes, I can read, and the sign does clearly say “Permit required at all times.”

But to think I would read this each time pulling into the lot is assuming people read the word “stop” each time they pull up to a stop sign.There is a lot of construction going on around campus; no one can deny that.

With this construction there have come a few road closings and other matters concerning the student body.

I can honestly say that the e-mails sent out on the list-serve warning of road closings has been, if not helpful on a personal level, a very courteous thing to do.

What has happened to this favorable approach? Monday night at 7:25, I got a parking ticket for parking in C-lot (the lot right across the street from the IACC), and I know I’m not the only one as most of the cars in the lot had white paper on their windshields.

I would be OK with this if I had knowingly violated the parking rules, but as it stands, I had no idea.

I don’t know exactly when it was changed, and I don’t care. To switch the lot to “Permit required at all times” from “after 4:30 p.m. it’s fair game” is stingy to start with, but not letting anyone know is equally, if not more, contentious.

Maybe they did send an e-mail out; I guess I don’t know, but if one was sent, it was inconspicuous enough for me, and at least 20 others, to not notice it.

The authorities have valid points; I give them that. Yes, I could park in the visitor’s parking lot when visiting the IACC, but why when I could be right across the street?

Yes, I can read, and the sign does clearly say “Permit required at all times.”

But to think I would read this each time pulling into the lot is assuming people read the word “stop” each time they pull up to a stop sign.There is a lot of construction going on around campus; no one can deny that.

With this construction there have come a few road closings and other matters concerning the student body.

I can honestly say that the e-mails sent out on the list-serve warning of road closings has been, if not helpful on a personal level, a very courteous thing to do.

What has happened to this favorable approach? Monday night at 7:25, I got a parking ticket for parking in C-lot (the lot right across the street from the IACC), and I know I’m not the only one as most of the cars in the lot had white paper on their windshields.

I would be OK with this if I had knowingly violated the parking rules, but as it stands, I had no idea.

I don’t know exactly when it was changed, and I don’t care. To switch the lot to “Permit required at all times” from “after 4:30 p.m. it’s fair game” is stingy to start with, but not letting anyone know is equally, if not more, contentious.

Maybe they did send an e-mail out; I guess I don’t know, but if one was sent, it was inconspicuous enough for me, and at least 20 others, to not notice it.

The authorities have valid points; I give them that. Yes, I could park in the visitor’s parking lot when visiting the IACC, but why when I could be right across the street?

Yes, I can read, and the sign does clearly say “Permit required at all times.”

But to think I would read this each time pulling into the lot is assuming people read the word “stop” each time they pull up to a stop sign.

Tyler Enderson
Sophomore
University Studies