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Parking fees during dead hours don't consider student
Editorial
By The Record Staff
On April 24, 2013
It was after 3 a.m. We were mentally and physically exhausted, returning to our cars after a long day's
work putting together last week's issue of The Record.
As we approached our vehicles, our tempers flared when we saw yellow slips tucked under our
windshield wipers. Even from afar, we knew what they were.
Three members of The Record's editorial staff had received a parking ticket for leaving their cars on
Rockwell Road past 1 a.m. last Tuesday.
Thanks a lot, UPD.
As editors, we get to school early on Tuesdays, prepared to take on the heavy workload that a day in The
Record's office typically brings. A parking ticket was the last thing we wanted or thought we deserved
after 18 hours on campus.
That's not to suggest that members of The Record are entitled to parking privileges across campus.
We're students who need to abide by the same regulations instilled on every other student.
We're just asking for a little leniency from UPD's finest.
There are three weeks left in the semester. A good chunk of Buffalo State students are hard-working
kids paying their way through school. Finals are right around the corner. With stress mounting, petty
parking fees are the last things students should be worrying about.
It's true that signs are posted all over campus indicating where parking is restricted, but UPD officers
need to put themselves in the shoes of college students. If a car is left on the street past 1 a.m., it's
entirely plausible that the vehicle's owner is engaged in a school-related function or activity - such was
the case last week.
We weren't parked in a staff lot during the day. We were parked on the street, in the spring, during
dead hours. What threat was sports editor Aaron Garland's Pontiac Grand Am posing at 3 a.m. when
snow removal wasn't an issue?
UPD should be less concerned about where vehicles are parked and more about protecting its students
and faculty, especially at that hour. A shooting near campus kicked off a school year that has featured
several reported acts of violence on and around campus.
Just last week, there was a shooting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Virginia Tech
massacre stands as the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history. These things happen on
college campuses, and as such, UPD should invest more time in promoting public welfare and safety on
campus.
This isn't meant to denounce the work that our university officers do. That same shooting at MIT left a
university policeman dead. These people have difficult, dangerous jobs, and we respect that.
But administering parking fines to students should be the least of their worries at those hours.
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