Officials downplay parking problem

When Josh Rose asks senators in the Student Government Association for complaints their constituents have voiced, parking is an issue mentioned every week. "Does anyone else have any issues, except for parking?" Rose, SGA president, said Wednesday night at the SGA meeting after several senators voiced complaints about the lack of parking on campus. "Because I don't want to hear anymore about parking." The senators were silent. "I want to hear case by case, but people want to come to me and say there is no parking," Rose said. "There is parking - people just don't want to walk." Although some students complain parking lots at the University are crowded, Rose said students should go to other universities to see their parking lots are more crowded than Murray State's. "Students want more (parking) spots, but we're not full," Rose said. Students with parking complaints are not unique to Murray State. "People just don't want to walk," Jan Quigg, parking services supervisor at Eastern Kentucky University, said. "They want to park at the door, and that just doesn't happen on college campuses." In addition to having accessiblity to open parking spots on campus, students at Murray State pay less for their parking tags than students at other instiutions. "From what I have heard from others, parking at Murray State is closer and cheaper than at other universities," David DeVoss, director of public safety for Murray State, said. Parking permits at Eastern Kentucky University and Austin Peay State University cost less than those at Murray State. However, other universities, such as the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, charge about twice as much for parking permits. DeVoss said he has known students in the past who have attended Murray State and another university and have said our parking is better. "I just know that our (parking) is less expensive, generally ... than other (universities')," DeVoss said. DeVoss said Murray State tries to provide the best parking on campus as it can. Said DeVoss: "I am always a proponent of making (University) parking better."

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