The university needs to constantly monitor the demand of parking during athletic and special events. Traffic is expected to increase during games and special events, but people still should be able to drive without endangering the lives of university parking employees.

Also, the school needs to accommodate to the increased amount of traffic without virtually closing the university.

MSU has a beautiful campus - one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country. It would be disheartening to eradicate our natural resources for parking. If our university had gigantic parking lots, we would no longer be able to admire the beautiful amenities of our campus. MSU is smart to be building up with new parking structures as opposed to more parking lots.

Everyone is not going to be able to get out of or into an event first. Sitting in traffic after any event is a given, therefore individuals attending these functions should budget time for traffic jams.

Even though the amount of space for parking is limited, the lives of parking attendants should not be endangered.

While working an event at the Union last month, parking attendant Grant Humerickhouse dodged a swerving driver as the car accelerated to evade a parking ticket.

Drivers often become irritated when parking attendants tell them to move their car to avoid being ticketed.

Even though it is frustrating, drivers should realize the attendants are only doing their jobs and trying to make the congested areas more orderly.

Carpooling is a solution for limiting the amount of excess traffic when games and special events are taking place on campus.

In order to make parking hassle-free, it would be in the best interest of drivers to follow the rules. Everyone knows parking is limited, therefore drivers should take heed.