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Daily Nebraskan
Just doing their job
brings officers wrath
By Dan Lonowski
Staff Reporter
Some folks scream at her and call
her names. Others get down right
mean. Most know she's just doing her
job.
Kathy Kulwicki, a UNL parking con
trol officer, takes it all in stride. The
UNL sophomore expects a few foul
words from the public because she has
an unpopular job handing out park
ing tickets.
UNL parking control officers handed
out about 49,000 parking tickets last
year, an increase of 12,000 from 1983.
Parking violations generated more than
$170,000.
Kulwicki said most folks who receive
tickets are mad at themselves rather
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than her.
"Sure we get a few of them that
holler in our face, but most realize that
we are just doing our jobs," she said.
Bryan Kratochvil, a junior in his first
year as a parking control officer, agreed
with Kulwicki.
. "Most people are pretty coopera
tive," Kratochvil said. "Usually, we
don't get any problems at all."
The UNL Police Department has
been hiring students as parking con
trol officers since 1983. Rather than
hiring all full-time officers, the depart
ment employs two full-time and 12
part-time parking control officers. The
12 part-timers are all students.
The department also dropped the
old "meter maid" tag and began calling
them parking control officers.
"They do more than write tickets for
meter violations," said Lt. John Burke,
of parking and traffic division. "The
students are a godsend on football
Saturdays. They really help out," he
said.
Burke said the students help patrol
the stands and guide traffic during
home, football games. They also patrol
campus during regular working hours,
watching for suspicious people or pos
sible criminal violations. Each officer
has a radio.
Some days are busier than others.
"Some days, I haven't written more
than a handful (nine or 10)," Kratoch
vil said. "Other times, I might write
steady all day."
Kratochvil and Kulwicki aid they
try to maintain good relations with
students. Kulwicki said if she is still
present when students find a ticket
under the wiper blade, and they don't
get visibly upset about it, she usually
will let them off the hook that's
"void the citation" in police terms.
"I've heard some good excuses why
people are parked illegally," Kulwicki
said. "Some have no place to park,
some are only there for a few minutes,
and some are late for class."
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Photos, clockwise from top: Park
ing control officer Bryan Kratochvil
places a citation on the hood of a car
parked in the south stadium lot. Jamie
Helzer studies her watch during a
slow moment of the north lot at the
Continuing Education building on east
campus. Parking control officers Kra
tochvil, left, Helzer, right rear, and
Jerome Bohaboj, right front, receive
check off lists of parking violators that
have paid their overdue tickets from
Sgt. Dick Gammel. Two of the familiar
signs showing designated parking in
the lot west of Memorial Stadium.
Kratochvil checks for expired meters.
Photos
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