I walk when I can, but I'm a music student at University of Iowa. I live like 20 min. walk from most classes, and that with instruments in Iowa winters...

I walk 20 minutes to all of my classes, but I'm in Austin, TX

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

March 31 2010 01:21 GMT

#22

Holy crap... I now know I'm not going to University of Iowa...

DefMatrixUltra

Canada1992 Posts

March 31 2010 02:19 GMT

#23

On March 31 2010 07:39 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:
Wow, can't you bring someone's attention to how retarded that is? or did you leave something out that you're not telling us ;P

Administration-heavy environments thrive on this kind of bullshit. A group of faceless entities had a meeting somewhere and someone laid out this beautiful masterful plan to make a shitload of money for practically no cost. The motion was passed instantly.

Maybe 5 years from now, someone who matters will be annoyed by this, but they'll likely just give themselves exceptions to the parking rules that students have to follow.

@micronesia: I know you mean well, man, but sometimes things just don't make sense, and the people responsible for them are just crooked. The president of the university sees this new parking thing as more money he can budget around for political purposes and for personal gain. It's how the system works.

tirentu

Canada1257 Posts

March 31 2010 02:40 GMT

#24

I'm glad I go to a small school. If they tried to pull that here, the student body would rise as one and slay those responsible.

BlackJack

United States10499 Posts

March 31 2010 04:17 GMT

#25

My school has 11 parking garages around campus but even some of them are like 1+ mile away from campus. It's easiest here to just take a bus, they come very frequently and are free for students. I usually just bike to school.

DivinO

United States4796 Posts

March 31 2010 04:27 GMT

#26

I think I'd rather be a little baby than a cowboy...just saying. Didn't vote in your poll.

KurtistheTurtle

United States1966 Posts

March 31 2010 04:39 GMT

#27

On March 31 2010 10:21 Archaic wrote:
Holy crap... I now know I'm not going to University of Iowa...

if that really is the nature of the parking system I'd edit the profanity out of the post and screenshot the OP + the one I quoted and sent it in to some higher ups or the student organization (Student Senate or Residence Hall Organization). This will get their attention.

micronesia

United States24680 Posts

March 31 2010 06:32 GMT

#28

On March 31 2010 11:19 DefMatrixUltra wrote:
@micronesia: I know you mean well, man, but sometimes things just don't make sense, and the people responsible for them are just crooked. The president of the university sees this new parking thing as more money he can budget around for political purposes and for personal gain. It's how the system works.

I know of numerous instances where similarly ridiculous situations were occurring at universities and confronting the president directly forced him to take action... they can't publicly be 'in' on something that would be so unpopular since they are politicians.

KwarK

United States42682 Posts

March 31 2010 07:14 GMT

#29

So basically they want to make the on campus parking short term and the problem you're describing is based around your desire to use it for longer than that. Rather than them not understanding your situation it appears that you don't understand theirs. It's not that they don't know people might want to park for more than 2 hours, it's that they don't want you to park there for more than 2 hours. Your problem is that they want people like you to park elsewhere.
Maybe there weren't enough spaces to go round or people were parking in them all day which meant other people with more pressing, short term needs, couldn't use the spaces.

Perhaps this was what they were hinting at when

On March 31 2010 07:39 Old Sagat wrote:
They said to park off-campus. Fucking idiots.

"I want to use these spaces but I can't because they're designed to not fit my use"
"We know you can't, that's kind of the point, we designed them that way"
"So where do I park!?!?!"
"Somewhere not here"
"You're a fucking idiot!"

stalife

Canada1222 Posts

March 31 2010 08:50 GMT

#30

0.90 dollars per hour ?!?! It's $3.50/hour here at my university.. It used to be $3.00/hr just last year, but jacked up the prices yet again.

QuanticHawk

United States32054 Posts

March 31 2010 12:31 GMT

#31

protip: save you citation envelopes and just stick them in the window when you park

i literally got thru about four years of undergrad before i finally got caught, and all the fees cost less than the actual parking would have

Trumpet

United States1935 Posts

March 31 2010 13:54 GMT

#32

It sounds like your best bet is to park in a relatively close by lot and take the bus from there. Buses are often free for students, even if not it's still probably better than paying their parking fees. I did this with the place I worked.

On a completely unrelated note, fuck yea for having an ST reference as your nick =]

micronesia

United States24680 Posts

March 31 2010 17:05 GMT

#33

On March 31 2010 16:14 KwarK wrote:
So basically they want to make the on campus parking short term and the problem you're describing is based around your desire to use it for longer than that. Rather than them not understanding your situation it appears that you don't understand theirs. It's not that they don't know people might want to park for more than 2 hours, it's that they don't want you to park there for more than 2 hours. Your problem is that they want people like you to park elsewhere.
Maybe there weren't enough spaces to go round or people were parking in them all day which meant other people with more pressing, short term needs, couldn't use the spaces.

Perhaps this was what they were hinting at when

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Schools usually do (and should) provide parking for students who have class for more than two hours...