All of us have squawked at one time or another about the high cost of college. The amount of money spent for tuition, activity fees, books, clothes, gas and food is not all of the parking fines.
According to Dean Hughes, 90 per cent of the fines could be avoided if the students would not park fifty yards to his class. But the students would rather park a dollar to park in a No Parking Zone rather than walk a block to park in a faculty parking lot. The students would rather lay a day to avoid spending a quarter for a legal parking decal.
So long as he violates the rules and regulations set up in his student handbook and in the parking rules and regulations brochure given to him during registration, he will be fined and will continue to be fined by the Higher office.
All too often, students are not so generous. Two thirds of the students who receive parking tickets ignore them. They throw them away in disdain. But little do these students realize how expensive that can become.
After they have accumulated three fines they can kiss their transcripts goodbye. Their transcripts are physically stated in the student handbook. If they have accumulated three fines that are fine not paid they will be denied their diplomas. Automatically increase to $5, a $1 fine will automatically increase to $3. After the third ticket, the car can be towed off of the campus and if this order is carried out, the student is towed away at the cost of $10.00. This only drains more money from his pocket. The Higher office has been reluctant to go to this extreme.
However, if the tickets are continued to be ignored, the student receives a personal letter from Dean Hughes informing him that if he doesn’t pay the fines, he will be turned over to the civil authorities at once. According to Dean Hughes, the civil authorities in the past two cases have gone this far.
“It is a poor situation taking these students to court. It is a needless inconvenience, disbelief of the student and a waste of putting out money which they don’t have. The money from parking fines goes to building more buildings or parking lots,” says Dean Hughes. He further states that the Higher office has ruled that the money received from the students must go to the student scholarship so that, in essence, the money eventually returned to the students.
“No Time” is another excuse that students use. An extra five minutes to come in and pay the fine of less than $25 to let them pile up.
When you receive a ticket, it’ll save a lot of headache and money if that extra fifty yards to your class or parking in a legal parking space.