parking

  • OPINION | Yes, we have a parking problem

    Even in the midst of midterm- exam season, mumbled curses and nervous breakdowns on Butler University’s campus are likely to occur when someone has a parking drama.

  • 22 Spots. 2 Sides. 1 Dispute

    Hayleigh Colombo | Editor in Chief | hcolombo@butler.edu Ryan Lovelace | Staff Writer | rlovelac@butler.edu A city board’s vote on Jan. 11 to expand Butler University’s parking plan effectively brought to a screeching halt a long-standing dispute between the university and the Phi Delta Theta Foundation. Since 2009, the two parties have clashed over who…

  • Parking revenue brings in nearly $370,000

    Butler University Police Department made about 90 percent of its more than $400,000 total income last year from parking revenues. Registration fees made up $241,555, $104,290 came from tickets and $23,635.92 came from parking meters, according to a 2010-11 budget. Police Chief Ben Hunter said BUPD couldn’t sustain itself on parking revenues alone, but it…

  • University donors, alumni, guests add to list of drivers looking for a spot on campus

    Butler University students, faculty and staff might be 1,412 permits short of feeling like they have ample parking, but they’re not the only ones on campus trying to find a spot. Dozens of donors, alumni and visitors drive to Butler each day, and the departments that bring them said it’s a struggle to make their…

  • Fresh take on old problems

    As a much older BU alum, I subscribe to the Collegian for the latest happenings on campus. The parking problem story (Aug. 31) remains just that. In the past 50-plus years, Greek housing created parking lots, and new “lots” (library, next to Alpha Phi etc.) have resulted in additional spaces. Closing of the old mall…

  • Unify parking permit to solve problems

    After a long day of classes, homework and struggling to meet 1 a.m. newspaper deadlines, I’m more than happy to meet the seat of my run-down, dented-up ’97 Chevy Cavalier to take me back home to the Apartment Village. But when that all-too familiar 4-inch by 8-inch bright green envelope placed gingerly under my broken…

  • Future freshmen don’t need cars

    Parking on university campuses can be a real pain. For the last several years I attended and worked at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where once I looked nearly two hours for a spot. Texas Christian University, my undergraduate alma mater, was more like Butler University, and it presented a fair share of problems too. Butler…

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Parking least of our concerns

    As we head into week two of classes, Butler’s largest-ever freshman class is beginning to familiarize themselves with the campus and its workings.  Certainly more than a few of them will pick up the September 1st issue of the Collegian, open to the opinion section, and see that the most pressing issue for the Collegian…

  • STAFF EDITORIAL | New campus parking safety

    OUR POINT THIS WEEK: Parking arrangements are dangerous for students as drivers and pedestrians. VOTE: 24-0 New parking arrangements on Butler’s campus, made to accommodate the new freshmen class, are dangerous to both student drivers and pedestrians. On Sunset Avenue, parking spaces on both sides of the street make it dangerous for passing cars. It…