By Nicole June | Perspectives Editor
You hop in your car on a bright, sunny morning. You’ve purchased all your books, bought a new bookbag, hey, you even brushed your teeth today.
As you pull up to the vast brick buildings of APSU in grandma’s old clunker, you turn the corner and a plane of shining metal awaits you.
Welcome to the land of APSU parking. Those who actually wish to arrive on time to class are instead plagued by an hour-long ride of hornhonking, nailbiting and chainsmoking (in the haven of one’s own car, of course).
Several new construction projects and reassignments of parking lots have drastically changed the landscape of campus. APSU is small as it is, and it now looks like a crowded sardine can.
Imagine what this scene must look like to incoming freshmen, eager to begin their next four to 10 years in college. Devastating, huh?
And for those of us who are veterans of the Peay, this situation can only be described as annoying.
Throughout the years, students have been able to park in the lot near the Trahern and Music/Mass Communication buildings.Now, however, the entire lot now resembles something like the Red Sea. Each space has been given its own scarlet stripe to designate it as faculty/staff parking. Students have been thrown out of this parking lot and must now park near the Dunn Center or further. Perhaps this was the idea of someone at the Foy, eager to spread the message of fitness to avoid the dreaded freshmen 15.
But never fear, a handy-dandy, color-coded map has been provided on the APSU Web site. Strain your eyes and point your fingers, and maybe you’ll locate a spot within a 15-mile radius.
But wait. There’s more. For the low, low price of somewhere near $25 a day, you can park wherever you want.
An officer will put a decorative sticker in your window while you slumber in class, and when you find it you can empty your wallet.
APSU has also added the convenience of paying your parking ticket online through Web Self Service. How thoughtful.
So newbies, brace yourselves for a year of scrounging for change and rousing games of bumper cars. Good thing we have those nifty bus passes now, no?
– Nicole June, Perspectives Editor
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