This is a little off-topic, but it came up in my Eastern Michigan University Google feed today: “Unfit for students: College prohibiting students from parking in Fitness Center lot,” from the Washtenaw Voice (which I presume is the student paper at Washtenaw Community College). A snippet to explain what this is all about:
If you’re a Washtenaw Community College student and you don’t have a pricey membership to the Fitness Center, then don’t even think about trying to park there.
The WCC administration and the management company that runs the Health and Fitness Center want parking at the facility to be member excusive, barring most students from
the lot.“If you want to go over there just to park, well, that’s inappropriate,” said Larry Whitworth, president of WCC.
How did EMU come up with this? Here:
While [former WCC Board of Trustees member Richard] Bailey said he can understand that members of the Fitness Center need to be able to park there, he also believes that the college should utilize all the parking it has so that it doesn’t have to build a parking structure or go to a system like that at the University of Michigan or Eastern Michigan University, where students must purchase a parking sticker.
So while it’s tough to find a place to part at WCC, at least it’s free.
Nothing’s free. The students can’t use the rec center or the parking. Another mistake by Whitworth. Should have never built this to compete with the private sector. Stick to education, not the fitness business or the golf course business.