VOLUME XXXII! NO. 2 • With the increasing student population at Behrend, parking seems to be becoming more difficult. This photo shows a temporary solution to the problem - parking on the grass. by Jackie Wroblewski Collegian Staff Writer There seems to be a ,bit of uncertainty about the future availability of adequate student parking space on campus. Most commuters seem to be aware of the definite shortage of available parking spaces, particullarly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. The problem exists because of high enrollment and the loss of the Nick Building staff lot to construction. A request for the funding of ad ditional parking area was submit ted to University Park last January. A project was designed for the completion of a new stu dent parking lot on the north side of the Nick Building. Becauge of a temporary lack of funding, the project has been postponed until funding can be made available. Gene Johnson, Chief of Police and Safety, said that his depart ment is doing everything it can to THE ME NOBODY KNOWS Page 7 BEHREND STUDENT PUBLISHED Page 2 THERE'S ONLY ONE BOSS Page 6 Behrend Collegian The Perplexity of Parking help alleviate the problem. "A survey is being taken of the space shortage," said Johnson, "at the present time, there are on ly 798 parking spaces (including staff lots) while 939 vehicle per mits have been issued." Another problem is that many cars parked in the lots do not have registration permits. This seems not only unfair to the students who have purchased per mits, but it maked taking an ac curate count of cas difficult. In order to fully stress our need for additional parkingfacilities to University Park, an accurate count must be taken of how many vehicles are actually on campus. The most efficient way of getting an accurate count is by the number of parking permits sold. Permits are available in the Department of University Police an Safety Services in the South Cottage. The registration and parking fee is $l5 for full time Penn State STATION ROAD, ERIE, PA. 16563 BOZO students and SIO for part time students. Permis for Fall and Spr ing semesters can be purchased for $25. Until the problem is solved, students are advised to follow the vehicle registration parking and traffic regulations as closely as possible. Student parking areas include the lots near Erie Hall, Wilson Picnic Grove, and the Nick Building. Students are not permitted to park in the Reed lot except bet ween the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Monday through Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. Students are also prohibited from parking in the gravel construction lot behind H. Platt Builders. As a temporary solution, cars will be permitted to park outside of designated parking spaces, in cluding the sides of roadways and the grass areas near the student lots. Johnson stated, "Cars will not " dliker- "Vi% 43etilimo 41#0 , . • . - • be tagged as long as there are no unregistered vehicle on campus is available spaces in the lots and the $l5. Other charges are between $2 vehicle is not hindering traffic and $lO. All penalties are payable flow or the access of emergency in the finance office within 48 vehicles. All vehicles must be hours of issuance. These collected registered." Johnson feels that traffic penalties are then turned any registered vehicle is entitled over to the Student Government to a parking space somewhere on Association. campus. Any student wishing to appeal Chief Johnson asked that when can do so, also within 48 hours, parking, students use their own at the Department of Police and discretion and have consideration Safety. Failure to clear a traffic for others until this problem can violation before the end of the be solved The penalty for parking an dent r ecor ds Entertainment/Feature....pages 6-9 News pages 1-3 Opinion pages 4-5 Sports pages 10-12 SEPTEMBER 27, 1984 semester will result in a hid of stu-
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