Average wait in long lines was about three hours. Faculty, students, staff
This year campus police made all parking assignments on campus first come first serve.
Because of the new policy, many faculty and staff came to campus early to buy parking decals Aug. 17.
Some of them stood in lines for at least two hours before purchasing their decals. Previous years only student parking was conducted this way.
Students and faculty formed lines outside the Anderson Center and K.R. Williams Auditorium to purchase parking decals.
“I arrived to campus for my parking sticker at 5 a.m. and stood in line with some other faculty and staff members until around 7 a.m.,” said Dr. Brian Blount, a professor in the Department of Mass Communications.
At least two faculty members expressed their concern about the new parking decal policy in an e-mail to Patricia Norris, chief of Winston-
Salem State University Police and Public Safety Department.
Dennis Sherrod, a professor in the Division of Nursing and Dr. Ludovic M. Kovalik, an assistant professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages gave The News Argus permission to print their letters. See Page 3 in this issue.
Lt. Patrick Ansel, crime prevention officer with the WSSU Police and Public Safety Department, is in charge of parking on campus.
Ansel said he changed the faculty and staff procedure for purchasing decals because he wanted to make it fair for everyone.
“In previous years, if a faculty wanted the same parking lot from year to year all they had to do was request the same lot,” he said.
“This was becoming an issue for those faculty who were not given an opportunity to receive the lot they wanted,” Ansel said.
Next year the process will be different for faculty and students.
Ansel said he is going to use T-2 eBusiness.
“Once we get T-2 eBusiness up and running everything will be done electronically. Buying a decal will still be on a first-come-first-serve basis, but having it online will eliminate everyone from having to stand in line for hours to purchase a decal,” Ansel said.