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monday, september 26, 2011
volume 111, issue 026
DAILY NEBRASKAN dailynebraskan.com
2011 PARKING REVENUE BREAKDOWN
1.84%
0.25%
Stadium Drive Garage $171,237.61
Misc. $23,507.88
4.56%
UPFF $424,839.47
2.99%
Meters $278,475.69
9.88%
Special Events $920,465.97
5.20%
75.28%
Citations $484,543.25
Permits $7,013,443.05
bea huff | daily nebraskan
PARKING TICKET PRICE TAGS In one year, Parking and Transit Services brought in nearly $485,000 in parking citations, earning just more than 5 percent of Parking and Transit Service’s revenue. Each violation comes with a price. Here’s what they are:
$10 TICKETS Parking overtime An expired meter Failure to provide notice of changing registration
$30 TICKETS No valid permit displayed* Improper display of permit Unauthorized parking a registered UNL vehicle (student/ staff/faculty/vendor/contractor) in a visitor’s lot Parking in an unauthorized area Parking in a No Parking area Improper parking *Violation will be reduced to $5 if, within 30 calendar days of issuance, proof is presented to an employee at UNL Parking & Transit Services (during window hours), that a valid permit is registered to that vehicle and the vehicle was parked in an authorized location.
$50 TICKETS Failure to register student/faculty/staff vehicle parking on campus
$100 TICKETS Unauthorized parking in a Fire Lane False Permit Application Filing a false lost/stolen permit report
$150 TICKETS Unauthorized parking in a handicapped space Second offense: $300 Third and on for a one year period: $500
Parking citation money flows into UNL story by tammy bain | art by blair englund Julia Ondrak, a senior English major, was parked the fee paid by students for the transit syson the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus tem is $9. Ian Bargar, a senior biological systems for 20 minutes on a weekend. But without plugengineering major, said he pays for a ging the meter, it was 20 minutes too long. Ondrak is one of many students paying into parking pass to avoid tickets. But before Parking & Transit Services’ revenue through having a pass, Bargar got a ticket. Bargar said he doesn’t protest too parking tickets. Nearly $485,000 in parking citations were heavily about the student fee that goes issued during the 2010-2011 year, earning to parking. “Stuff has to be maintained,” he just more than 5 percent of Parking and said. “If someone’s moving in Transit Service’s revenue. The money from parking tickets all benefit and stuff, eventually they’re go“internal” aspects of UNL, said Dan Carpenter, ing to use the sidewalk and street.” director of Parking and Transit Services. Claire Cuddy, a seCarpenter went on to say the internal money nior goes to fund operation, hosmaintenance and pay for As expensive pitality, personnel who give tickets restaurant to students. Parking ticket as they make and tourism money also goes into a management major, bond, which goes to differ- parking passes, and doesn’t agree with the ent funds. The four park- as many meters as parking ticket prices. ing garages on campus are they put out, it kind “As expensive as they make funded by bond money, he of seems like they’re parking passes, and as said. many meters as they put Money from tickets also forcing students into out, it kind of seems like helps pay for the personnel parking passes with they’re forcing students that patrol campus parking into parking passes with every day between 7 a.m. the tickets.” and 9 p.m. Claire Cuddy the tickets,” she said. senior hosptitality major Cuddy only has classUNL parking is heavily es on Tuesdays and enforced, he added. Thursdays, and didn’t Ondrak said she didn’t know she was supposed to plug her parking feel the need to pay for a parking pass. While she always makes sure meter. “I thought it’d be free since it was the week- to plug her meters for the duration of her classes, she’s gotten tickets end,” she said. Because downtown meters are void on for the times class went 10 minutes weekends, she thought campus meters had too long. She also said the transit student fee, similar policies. According “seems a little to the UNL parking webIf someone’s unfair,” especialsite, meters on campus are moving in and ly for students enforced until noon on Satstuff, eventually who already pay urdays. their meters and “It’s hard to figure out they’re going to use don’t use buses. where downtown ends and “It’s too much,” campus actually starts,” she the sidewalk and street.” Bargar said. “But said. nothing we Carpenter said the decidian bargar there’s can do about it, really.” ing border between down- senior biological systems engineering major Students can find parktown and campus is Q ing information and maps at Street. http://parking.unl.edu/, with Parking tickets are not the only source of funding though, Carpenter individual information in separate tabs. Revsaid. In fact, one student fee pays for the transit enue can be found at http://parking.unl.edu/ aboutus.shtml. system. tammybain@dailynebraskan.com According to Student Accounts information,
$200 TICKETS Counterfeit/stolen permit** **The use of any unauthorized, stolen, counterfeit, altered or reproduced permit or facsimile, will result in the impoundment of the vehicle, confiscation of the permit, revocation of parking privileges for a calendar year, a fine of $200 and a report filed with Student Judicial Affairs Office.
Transcript, diploma, registration, and/or vehicle permit renewal may be held for nonpayment of penalties. SOURCE: PARKING.UNL.EDU/ENFORCEMENT/PENALTIES.SHTML
Lazzari’s Pizza night shift offers oddities
ASUN, CFA spell out student fees jordan martin daily nebraskan
As students write away checks for thousands of dollars for tuition and watch their college debt steadily increase, a logical question that can run through their minds is “Where is all that money going?” “I don’t think they (the university) do a good job of explaining to freshmen and transfer students where your money is going,” said Johnny Aldana, a junior English and film studies major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Although the breakdown of fees can be found after a dedicated search on the UNL website, Aldana said he didn’t believe most people who attend UNL know what exactly they are paying for. “Nobody physically told me where my money was going
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to,” he said, adding that he had to figure it out on his own after a couple of years at UNL. That’s something that the Committee for Fees Allocation and the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska are trying to change. Nolan Johnson, CFA chair and a junior management major, said he understands the confusion regarding what students are actually paying. “We’ve left it up to the students to kind of figure out their fees (in the past),” Johnson said. But Kaitlin Porter, a junior French major, said she doesn’t think students take the time. “It’s not many students’ top priority to know the actual student bill,” she said. Johnson said he doesn’t know any “average,
2011-2012 STUDENT COST ESTIMATION RESIDENT
NONRESIDENT
Technology Fee $110.25 Library Fee $45.00 Housing Housing Registration $4,323.50 $4,323.50 Fee $20.00 Tuition University Tuition $3,123.75 Program and $9,266.25 Facilities Fees $482.00 Course Fees $50 *Costs based on one 15 credit hour semester.
run-of-the-mill student” who will actively seek information on his or her student fees. Porter said she didn’t even know where to find information about the specifics of the student bill. In order to address this, Johnson said CFA is trying
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Cody Elmore
Daily Nebraskan
bea huff | daily nebraskan
to make a breakdown of student fees available on MyRed. This breakdown, Johnson explained, would lay out how much money each student individually pays for services
student fees: see page 2
The black and white tile floor crackles as the soles of junior marketing major Dan Grant’s bleach-stained Nikes yank away from a sticky film of beer, Coke and marinara sauce. He tosses pepperoni slices into a lake of red sauce and grated cheese, sorting them out to cover the surface. The neon sign radiating above his head reads: Lazzari’s Pizza. His shift starts at 8 p.m. and ends as the last customer leaves around 3 a.m. “We’ve got a few regulars that come around but I see somebody new every time I
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graveyard: see page 2
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GRAVEYARD SHIFT
work,” Grant said. “Saturday nights are the most crazy for sure. There’s always a bunch of people around two in the morning.” He took the part-time job when school started, using the money for what he labeled his “social fund.” Taking the toasty bubbling dough out of the oven, Grant
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