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Assistance League of Eugene Thrift Store $ 1 off with $10 Purchase Expires 10/23/02 Park at your own risk University students should read up on campus parking rules in order to avoid fines Jenni Schultz News Editor If campus parking seems a little intimidating, welcome to the club. Maps of campus parking areas are available at the Department of Pub lic Safety, but to a lot of students, it’s just not enough. However; with the fees and fines associated with improperly parking, it may not be a bad idea to get ac quainted with all campus parking rules and regulations. First off, the argument could be made that the parking situation is not student-friendly. For example, the most campus-accessible parking is only available for those with facul ty/staff parking permits. In addition, of the total 3,500 permit spots, only half are accessi ble to students. Gars with faculty/staff permits are also al lowed to park in these spots. Add to this that, on average, 7,000 permits are sold to students, faculty and staff every year. That means only half of the people buying per mits are guaranteed a spot. Fees for citations run from $15 to $300. And don’t think that the fees will go away if left unpaid. If they’re not paid, diplomas can be withheld and cars can be booted. The fee for getting a car booted is an additional $40. It is possible to petition these tick ets, but make sure the petition is sub mitted within 10 days of the citation. Adam Jones Emerald Parking citations can cost from $15 to $300, and if unpaid, a diploma can be withheld. About two-thirds of the petitions re ceived are reduced or approved, DPS Parking and Transportation Manager Rand Stamm said, and only about one-third of petitions are denied. “It’s usually on a very individual ized basis,” he said. The most common citations dis bursed are for overtime parking at street meters and failure to display a valid parking permit, Stamm said. Although most of the tickets is sued do eventually get paid, most are not paid in a timely manner. Over the years, many people — including this paper — have argued that a parking structure would solve Turn to Park, page 23B Stop being lazy; driving to campus Guest commentary Students should avoid parking on campus So I hear that parking is kind of tricky around the ol’ University. Ap parently, they sell nearly twice as many permits as there are parking spots, meaning that even if you shell out $88 for the privilege of parking on campus, you still can’t find any where to park. What a pain in the neck that must be. Why, someone should do some thing about it! I suppose they could build more parking lots. Or perhaps a great big parking garage. Then, all of the prob lems would be solved for a couple of months, until a few thousand more students get into the habit of driving to school. Maybe we could just pave Alton Baker Park and provide a re served parking spot for every stu dent, faculty and staff member. On the other hand, if fewer people brought their cars to campus, we wouldn’t have a problem, either. I’ll grant that there are a few peo ple who absolutely need to drive to campus. Maybe they’ve got 10 min utes after their last class to get to a job across town. I’ll buy that. As for the rest of us, there’s no ex cuse. One of the best kept secrets in Eu gene seems to be that students can ride the bus for free. Seriously. Just show the driver your student ID and off you go. There are very few places in town that are more than four blocks from a bus line — other than the far-flung hillsides, where few of us can afford to live anyway. Many of these routes stop at the University or nearby, and those that.don’t go to Eugene Sta tion, which is only 10 blocks away. But even if ydu’ve just gotta drive the car, it’s not absolutely necessary to park on campus. You can park at a Park and Ride, then ride the bus to the University, and it won't cost you a dime. From Valley River Center, you can ride the Breeze, which runs every 10 minutes and takes about 20 minutes to get to campus. Better yet, you can park at the fairgrounds and ride the 75X, which runs every 15 minutes and gets to Sacred Heart Hospital (only two 4 blocks from campus) in six minutes. Sure, buses are uncomfortable, and you occasionally will be con fronted by obnoxious and/or smelly people. But learning to. cope with un pleasant people is^a fact of life — the better you are at it, the better you will get along in society. Plus, a bus ride is a good time to get some reading done. And "if you don’t-like^the bus, you can always:bike. I krjow, .it’s easy to say hike,'"bike, Turn to Lazy, page 23& 014534 Come and satisfy your craving at the best restaurant in town! v '' igg. y - « ■: Close tojAutzen Stadium. to the game! Buses to Men's Pac-10 Home games H /Park and walk to Autzen • Outside dining 11:30 on Sat, and served all day.
