I, like many students, live off-campus. I drive to campus toattend classes. On Monday, October 11, I had a night class toattend. I drove, like I always do, to campus only to find thatparking had been blocked off in the commuter lot for the Pacersgame. A helpful police officer told me that I could park in thegarage by the library. He assured me that I would not be ticketedfor parking there early and without a tag. So I drove over to theparking garage where I was greeted by two very unfriendly policeofficers. These officers informed me that I could park in thegarage only if I paid event parking. I had no money on me because Iwas just going to class, not that it matters. I don't feel thatstudents, when trying to park to attend class, should have to payto park, especially if there is already a parking pass hanging inthe windshield. These two officers were extremely rude. I droveback to the first officer and politely told him that they weren'tallowing parking in the garage without paying event fees. Heapologized for sending me there. At this point I was already 20minutes late for class. I spent the next half hour driving around,trying to find somewhere to park (I wanted to make it to at leastpart of my class). I never found a parking spot and gave up. Idrove home in tears, angry and confused. Why is it that eventparking takes precedent over students? I pay thousands of dollarsto attend this university. Why am I getting pushed aside for"events?" I also don't understand why the police I spoke with (allof whom were UPD) had no idea what the others were doing. Thepolice at the parking garage made it clear they had no intention ofcontacting the officers working the parking at the commuter lot.This whole situation thoroughly upset me.
Amy Dorsey
student
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