A little late for class and desperate enough to risk parking in a staff lot or in 30-minute parking? That’ll be five more bucks than last semester.

Very quietly, members of a campus committee voted some time ago to allow the fine for parking violations to increase from $10 to $15. The only notice students received of the change was a small ink pen mark in the brochure given with the parking stickers

The Traffic and Parking Authority Committee reviews and recommends policies, rules and regulations governing vehicular traffic on campus.

The committee also recommends penalties for categories of infractions of traffic and parking regulations.

We find it very unprofessional for certain members of the administration to slip a change in fines right under our noses, hoping that nobody would notice.

We did, and, quite frankly, the student body deserved to know sooner.

And what was the reason behind this change?

Who served on the committee that approved this?

These are the questions that should have already been answered.

We call on the SGA to issue a full report on where the breakdown in communication occurred, and to find out who we have to “thank” for these extra fines.