Phone Calls and Complaints Change Parking Rule

The new parking lot rules brought resident students together like no other event on campus has this year. Instead of club fliers promoting "ladies night" or "2-for-1" drink specials littering the parking lot, yellow envelopes with $15 parking tickets inside were on hundreds of windshields.

Changing Lot 23 (the parking lot next to AL) to commuter parking angered many people - especially the residents who were use to having the ease of a one or two minute walk to the resident hall.

Now, they were being told to lug their groceries from the parking garages.

But after three days of yelling, complaining and calling traffic and parking, the rule has been suspended. For the first time in a long time, students, residential or not, rallied together to change a rule or policy.

Use this as an example for the future. FAU is a small enough school where 100 or 200 students CAN change something if they really want to.