Please Add $10 To My Already Expensive Tuition and Fees

It's only the second week of school and I already have a parking ticket. I knew I would get one the moment I left my car, but I had no choice. Ok, maybe I did have a choice. My other option would have been to drive around campus for the entire hour and a half I was scheduled to be in class and try to find somewhere to park. I'm sure I could have found a parking spot and made it to class for the last 10 minutes. I should have done that. Oh well, I know that paying my tuition and book fees aren't enough for this large public college. But I have some better ideas.

I think one of the best ideas to generate revenue is to stop issuing tickets to college students who can barely afford the rising costs of gas prices and start eliminating the salaries of those people who drive around and write these meaningless tickets. If I am correct, there are two people who drive around in a little golf cart and issue tickets while students are in class learning (the students who actually GO to class by the way). Cut their positions and I'm sure the university can save at least $40,000. Is it really worth paying two people an average of $20,000 (so it's a wild estimate) to generate a ticket revenue of a maximum of $3,000 a year (once again, that's another estimate)? If you eliminate the ticket fairies you solve two problems. First and foremost, you save money for the monetary hungry institution known as Midwestern State University. Secondly, you create more parking spaces because more people will be allowed to park illegally, with the only exception being that you can't park in a handicap spot if you aren't handicap because that's like slapping a man with no arms.

I don't think that will happen though, it almost makes too much sense and if there is anything that I have learned from state institutions it's that things that make sense usually don't happen. As a result, I suggest that students start writing tickets for what the university doesn't do right, such as not creating enough parking spaces, interferring with my ability to concentrate on my academics (by putting my registration on hold until I pay the MSU police for my past due tickets), and for having a really crappy local educational access channel. I propose that the ticket costs be pro-rated to each students tuition and fees costs so that we all come out even. Then maybe they'll get the idea.

When I went to pick up my parking sticker I noticed a sign that said tickets cannot be paid for in large amounts of change. I sense that my ticket frustration is not unique, but I never thought it was. I hate tickets of any sort. And I hate universities who enforce them like they are going out of style.