The annual cost to attend the University is approximately $85,000 a year. That’s over $7,000 a month, $1.7k a week, about $250 a day, $10 an hour, or 17 cents a minute. Unsurprisingly, these are all numbers higher than what I would ever give to the UR parking office.
Since my freshman year, I have engaged in a proxy holy war against the agency which I feel is the greatest accelerant toward fascism here on the University’s campus: the campus parking office. My first tirade against them began just when I obtained a car to drive on campus the fall of my freshman year, as I realized rather quickly that you couldn’t just park anywhere on campus for free.
To park within the bounds of River Campus, a commuter student must first pay about $300. Not only are commuter students allowed to have a car their freshman year, they pay a much cheaper rate than their stationary counterparts — almost as if, to mock us, to spit on our face and claim we should be thankful it wasn’t acid. I swore I would never bend the knee — no matter what, I would never pay that price…