There is a major problem on the beautiful campus of Appalachian State University. Parking is always an issue with students, parents, visitors, and faculty. It is an issue because the land around Appalachian is mountainous and over crowded, so there is a lack of parking areas available. Numerous tickets are given out every week for parking violations. Students are getting fed up with the lack of parking available to them and want to see a change. This change is attempting to be made, but if you really look at what is being done it will probably only cause a larger problem in the long run. In response to this, Roy Tugman, the director of Public Safety and University Police says "until changes are made students, faculty, and staff will have to adjust their lifestyles in order to deal with the parking dilemma."(Huffman, App. Online)

Right now, if you park illegally on-campus, you will receive a thirty dollar parking ticket. If you park in a fire lane you will receive a fifty dollar ticket. Students are aggravated and frustrated every time they go to their car in the afternoon and see a ticket sitting on the windshield. This would not be a problem if it only happened on weekday

Also, when parents and friends come to the campus they should have designated parking places for them instead of having to drive around for hours at a time looking for a open space. Almost all Universities have designated visitor parking lots where the visitors are always able to find adequate parking for them. Many times, friends and families of Appalachian students have come to visit and awakened to find a thirty dollar parking ticket on their car. This is a very big problem because if it occurs much longer, people are not going to want to visit Appalachian. The Parking and Traffic mission statement states, "the primary purpose of the ASU Parking and Traffic department is to provide parking services and traffic control for faculty, staff, students and visitors."(www.parking.appstate.edu)

All of these ideas should be considered by the University officials when deciding what to do about the parking problem on the Appalachian campus. Students are getting fed up with endless parking tickets and the hassles of parking at State Farm and having to wait on the Appalcart to come and take them the three mile drive back to campus. A change is needed badly and it is going to take a lot of deliberation and consideration of new ideas to get this change done and successful.

Instead of new eye catching buildings that will consist of expense for the school, the money that Appalachian receives from donations could be used towards parking decks. If Appalachian used the money towards parking, many people would benefit. The chaos of parking on late nights or the weekdays would make it more convenient and less stressful on the students and visitors. In doing this, it could also help with the re

Some common words found in the essay are:
Hill Street, App Online, Appalcart Farm, Parking Traffic, University Parking, University Police, parking deck, PARKING APPALACHIAN, parking decks, Convocation Center, Roy Tugman, deal parking, faculty staff, appalachian campus, campus students, allowed park, parking appalachian, park campus, allowed park campus, students faculty staff, staff adjust, lack parking available, parking deck built, faculty staff adjust,
Approximate Word count = 1147
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)