Is the parking on campus getting better everyday or getting worse?

Personally I think it’s getting worse. Building the newest additions to the dorm life this year has brought many other problems into this campus. University Village was supposed to be done by the time school started but yet the buildings are still in the works.

The space for University Village also took out a lot of the parking spaces and oppurtunities that commuters and non-commuters living in Cooper or McCord had. This year UTM had a major record of enrollment which means that more people are attending the university meaning that more parking and housing should be situated. Unfortunately, the administration has tried to fix this problem by building University Village and not thinking about parking.

I happen to know that most of the professors that teach in Humanities have their offices in Clement which causes some of the Cooper parking lot to be flooded with cars all the time.

On a much lighter note, the parkings in the University Center and by Paul Meek Library seem to be taken up almost the entire day.

Commuters and Non-Commuters are having to drive around for at least twenty minutes before finding a suitable parking space that will not cost them a ticket of $15.00 that they may not have. These people are having to find a spot by the pond across the street and praying they will not get stuck in the ditch close to the road at the University Center. Many Non-Commuters are lucky to even find a parking spot by Browning and Ellington due to McCord residents parking there. Many cars happen to not have a sticker with a Non-Commuter tag and no ticket from the Department of Safety either which brings the current issue of parking to a complete debate among students. Many students at UTM that are Commuters are having to fight not only gas prices but the current parking status on campus.