The Olympian

Issue date: 10/24/07 Section: Campus

Media Credit: Skyler Wilder No where to go. Construction and demolition projects around campus like the lot next to the Health and Occupations building adds to the daily problem of finding a parking space.

Many Olympic College
students say there is not
enough parking for students
since the beginning of the
quarter. Although most OC.
students can agree that there
are problems with parking,
many have mixed feelings
to why parking is even an
issue in the first place.
"It sucks. I get here at nine
every morning and I have to
spend twenty minutes looking
for parking," OC student
Nick Kamp said.
"It's insufficient," OC student
Darin Reisenaul said.
He said he wants to know
"why we have a $40,000
winding thing in the new
Science and Technology
Building but we don't have
enough parking."
Rocky Wallace head of
Safety and Security said
that parking problems are
nothing new around this
time of year. According to
Wallace the enrollment rate
at OC has dropped which
should contribute to more
parking spaces. He said that
when fall quarter starts a
lot of new students are not
accustomed to parking here
because they have not had
the same kind of parking
during the summer quarter
or at their high schools.
The parking problems
have also left many OC students
with tickets.
Wallace said that he is not
sure how many tickets have
been given out because it is
still early into the quarter.
But he said that security has
given out more than they
would have liked to write.
"I got a ticket the other
day for not having a permit,"
student Rodney Jones
said. "I didn't know it was
mandatory because they
don't tell you that in class. I
guess they don't really keep
you informed but I should
have gotten a student handbook."
A majority of the students
agree that the parking
is crowded but some have
ways to get around it.
"I think you have to utilize
the parking lot by (the
auto shop) and utilize the lot
by Bremerton High School,"
said Associated Students of
OC President Leslie Miller.
"There's plenty of parking
available - you just have to
use it."
ASOC Executive Vice
President Aileen Arsenio
said she understands it is
difficult to find a parking
spot, but said you just have
to strategize.
"I would hate to say
that you should get here an
hour early to find parking,"
Wallace said. "But some of
us have to time manage.
From 8 a.m. to noon you can
hardly find a spot."

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