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Preventing students from registering places a hold on their financial aid, which, for many students, is their only source of income.

Therefore, students with outstanding parking tickets can't pay them off because they can't get financial aid because the school placed a hold on registration.

Students have more to think about than paying traffic fines or dealing with the boot.

College students have a reputation for being broke, probably because they are paying for school.

Forcing them to pay ridiculous parking fees only adds to their problems.

Parking services refuses to negotiate parking tickets and expects full payment before the boot or the registration holds are removed.

Therefore, students must take measures into their own hands.

The boot can be handled in two ways. The first is to try remove it yourself.

While this is illegal, it will get the boot off your wheel.

Using a $30 tool set from Fred Meyer, an individual can remove the boot on their own and gain an understanding of the inner-workings of the boot.

For those that don't have the mechanical skills to remove the boot, basic economics may be the solution.

Write a check to the parking pigs, have them remove the boot and put a stop payment on that check.

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

While neither of these methods will rid the hold on a student's registration, it is a good means of regaining control of their vehicle.

While the tickets issued are initially fairly cheap, there is a catch.

What most students don't realize is that if not paid within seven days, a $5 ticket can jump to a $40 ticket.

If a student has eight $5 tickets, their grand total can reach an astounding $320.

Once it gets to that point, the student is screwed.

None of this would be so bad if parking services weren't so messed up.

Most students can't get parking permits and the meters only last for two and a half hours.

The newest system of paid parking - meters for after- hours parking - is the most inconvenient method of pay parking ever.

Most students do not have the time or energy to fight the school over ridiculous tickets or deal with their inconvenient pay system.

Hassling students and making them pay enormous parking fines is not contributing to a positive academic environment. These parking Nazis are bothering students because they can't develop a good parking system that all students can utilize in a convenient manner.

There should be a limitation on the amount of money that parking services can charge a student in a one-year period.

Meters should be cheaper and the length of time available should be extended.

Also, parking passes should be issued on the basis of how far away a student lives.

Students who live far from campus should get priority.

Poor, struggling students are kicked to the curb and robbed of financial aid because they can't afford outrageous parking fees.

Finally, the new pay system is horrible.

Why couldn't parking services simply create a system like most other park and pays, where each space is numbered and students place money in their numbered slot?

Ridiculous tickets, inconvenience and enormous rates are only stressing students out.

The parking cops should try and calm down a little.

Instead of issuing so many tickets, they should be in a room deciding how to make parking more convenient and cheaper for students.

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