On campus, we promote alternative means of transportation. From this perspective, the parking increase seems to make sense. It is our goal to deter people from driving; it is punitive. However, the more that people commute or ride a bike to school, the more likely that UTAPS would justify further increases due to declining revenues, since they rely on parking revenues to pay for the parking structures. It reminds me of how the government created taxes to discourage smoking. In actuality, they highly depend on those revenues generated by the smokers to use for other more altruistic projects.

Overall, I'm very unhappy with the parking fee increase. It's another way to tax students. And we will have to pay. The only think I can recommend is to graduate as soon as you can. Consisdering all the other budget issues in the state, this is merely the beginning.

Way to not take a stand in an editorial.