Female night school student and the campus cop

[snugglegirl05]

My co-worker witnessed this incident one night around 5 p.m. earlier this week.

There are night school students who still want to wait at or near the faculty/staff garage entrance usually beginning at 5 p.m. even after being told by campus police that they cannot do that since it causes a traffic backup. Their night school access card is only programmed to work beginning at 5:15 p.m. This allows enough time for the faculty/staff members to exit that garage leaving open parking spaces available for the night school students.

My co-worker is sitting inside the Visitor parking booth, & she notices there is a line of traffic at the faculty/staff garage. It was around 5 p.m. when she noticed this, & she noticed that several cars had night school parking permits hanging on the rear view mirror. The parking enforcement guy shows up, & he uses his access card to let the night school students enter the faculty/staff garage. He then motions to every night school student to drive around to the exit gate so he could let them out because the faculty/staff members had to exit first so there would be open parking spaces available. One female student would not exit, & so the Parking enforcement guy called campus police. A campus cop arrived, & told her she had to exit. She would not do that. He raised his voice & told her she had to exit. She finally agreed to exit, but she drove around to the Visitor parking booth & told my co-worker that she wanted to wait near the booth until 5:15 p.m. According to campus police and the Parking office, the entire area where the Visitor parking booth, faculty/staff parking garage, & the Visitor parking garage is is not a waiting area. So my co-worker told her she could not do that. She told her she would have to raise the gate for her to exit the area & return at 5:15 p.m.

So she raises the gate, but the girl does not exit. She pulls over to the side to wait until 5:15 p.m. The campus cop who told her she had to exit the area walks up to her car, & he tells her she has to exit the area & return at 5:15 p.m. She would not do that. He raises his voice, & he tells her she still has to do that. She would not do that. So he takes her to the campus police station. My co-worker saw him put her into the cop car, exit the area, & turn right at the street in front of the Visitor parking booth (where campus police is located).

[jjllbb]

Jeez! She put up all that fight for 15 minutes? And in the end I bet she missed her class. It's nice to see the rules enforced.

[bainsidhe]

Good. I hope she gets a ticket or a fine. And I hope everyone starts getting ticketed and fined when they don't follow the rules. Parking enforcement has already tried to be nice and people are abusing the system. Just because you don't like the rules doesn't mean you don't follow them.

Frankly, anyone causing trouble should be denied the right to have an evening pass. I think you said the evening passes are cheaper, correct? In which case these idiots should be forced to buy the more expensive day pass or park somewhere else.

[snugglegirl05]

Frankly, anyone causing trouble should be denied the right to have an evening pass. I think you said the evening passes are cheaper, correct? In which case these idiots should be forced to buy the more expensive day pass or park somewhere else. [/QUOTE]

I do know that a document can be added to her student file at Student Services stating what can happen if she does this again. I'm not sure how much the night school pass actually costs.

The students who arrive early now wait at the metered lot across the street, which is owned by the city. But... their waiting there prevents others from exiting that lot. Then at 5:15 p.m. those students exit that lot & begin entering the faculty/staff garage. My co-worker mentioned that to me when she came to work on Friday, & I told her the only way the city would know that night school students are waiting there is if a city worker came to that lot at 5 p.m.