The Griffon News

Everybody knows that the mere sight of a parking ticket is the most irritating sight in the entire world.

Nothing’s worse than getting out of a stressful class or just finishing with a big test to find a $25 parking ticket on the windshield of your car.

Most students who choose to live off campus or those nontraditional types have a hard enough time arriving 30 minutes early just to find a parking spot.

Dealing with a parking ticket should not be one of those stressful aspects of college life.

The parking meter maids of the Western campus are a special kind of breed. They seem to be hiding around every corner just waiting to give a poor unsuspecting student a ticket.

Tickets are being issued everywhere from the normal no parking permit to parking the wrong way in a spot.

Other violations include students parking in the so-called unloading dock or visitor parking for no more than three minutes.

The most unnerving element about this whole ordeal is that some students come out to find that their car has been ticketed not only one time, but layered with two.

Now let’s say a student has business to take care of that will only take a matter of minutes.

Does the student either: a.) park in the unloading dock b.) risk parking in a visitor spot or c.) park on the other side of campus?

Option three seems to be the safest decision, but should such a minor errand be subject to a $25 punishment?

Yes, parking security is a necessity on our campus. The question is to what degree should they rule?

Boundaries and limitations are a key ingredient to a successful coexistence between students and authority.

This is true for all aspects of campus life. Now it is our job as a whole to develop a solution in order to create a happy medium.