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another small riot, and several small
groups of students chanting and van
dalizing buldings across City Cam
pus.
Community and university leaders
expressed disapproval of the students’
methods to bring more attention to the
Parking Problem.
But this battle — certainly one of
the most memorable — did result in
an investigation of the Parking Prob
lem and the beginnings of our current
parking permit system.
There was even talk during the
investigation of pooling parking fines
for the campus into a scholarship fund
that would be available for eligible
UNL students.
However, Tad McDowell, man
ager of UNL Parking Services, said
although a scholarship fund from park
ing fees sounded like an interesting
mea, u was noi currently being con
sidered as an option.
McDowell explained that financ
ing scholarships would mean price
increases to make up the difference.
“Parking Services receives all its
revenue from permit sales, citations
and special-event parking,” McDowell
said.
The money collected is then used
for maintenance of shuttle busses,
parking lots and lights and for land
scaping, he said.
“We (Parking Services) are here to
maintain the parking lots,” he said,
“and to maintain some control and
some planning as to where people are
going to park.”
Students who fail to pay fines will
not receive parking permits, he said,
and may also have a block placed on
their registration until the fine is paid.
However, McDowell said the main
goal of the department was to provide
a service for both East and City Cam
puses.
“If we weren’t here, there would
be cars every place you could imag
ine,” McDowell said.
Parking Services has often been
blamed as the true culprit of all that is
wrong with City Campus parking.
During each semester, curses can be
heard in the same breath as complaints
about Parking Service regulations.
However, few students ever notice
remote parking areas are deviod of
cars.
McDowell tried to explain this co
incidence.
“The students all want to park near
the core academic areas,” he said.
“It’s a convenience issue and it will
never go away completely.”
In fact, a 1992 UNL parking/traffic
study conducted by an outside agency
reached a similar conclusion.
Although the study stated that City
Campus had a shortage of parking
spaces, it conceded that “a substantial
number of students would prefer to
pay for the convenience of city park
ing rather than use the remote campus
lots.”
McDowell agreed.
With so many students, faculty,
staff and visitors on the City Campus,
he said, it is not reasonable to expect
to park a car by the front door of a
class.
Parking Services has not entirely
abandoned the quest to cage the Park
ing Problem beast.
According to McDowell, a total lot
survey and sign inventory will be con
ducted by Parking Services this sum
mer to examine lot conditions-and
availability issues.
He also said the addition of a 600
space parking structure west of Me
morial Stadium will help ease frustra
tion — if only slightly.
“UNL students make up approxi
mately 60 percent of the parking de
mand in the surrounding city parking
lots,” McDowell said.
If any of those lots are destroyed
and buildings constructed on the site
— for which there are plans being
developed — it will mean a rise in
university parking demands by stu
dents now parking on city lots, he
said.
Complaints persist, and have per
sisted, sometimes without facts be
hind them. *
According to McDowell, oversell
ing of student parking permits is a
myth.
Students come to class during dif
ferent hours and on different days,
McDowell said, so many different stu
dents may use the same parking space
during any given week.
“Unless we are going to sell per
mits on a one-on-one basis,” he said,
“you will always have some empty
spaces.”
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