It is great that MSU has been able to build and maintain parking areas by using money generated from parking violation fines.
My personal experience with this source of MSU’s revenue goes back to me taking the evening short course on fruit production. I managed to accumulate five to six parking tickets during the 7-10:30 p.m. classes. The most ludicrous was for parking in the florist shop parking slot at 7 p.m. when the shop closed at 5:30 p.m. There were insufficient regular — read: unrestricted — parking spaces for the evening class.
In my opinion, those of us ticketed were victims of extortion. After debating with the person in charge of violations, all but one ticket was voided. I chose to take the last ticket to court. It apparently never was turned over to the court.
The parking violation fines generated annually are far more than I would be able to contribute to MSU, but I decided that was the last straw. Ciao, MSU.
Anthony Miceli, MSU alumnus
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