Double Parking the Guilded Lot (October 3, 2001)

In the final stretch of junior year late last spring I think all of my now fellow seniors felt a little "cocky" with all those senior privileges just barely escaping our grasp. It seemed like we’d jumped on every chance we got to show our senior "pride" and bask in the bustling cornucopia of senior privilege, one being the right to the senior lot. The right to park in the guilded senior lot has been the aspiration of underclassmen from the beginning of time.

With the tension building in the final days of junior year, and with all of the seniors gone, the freedom was overwhelming. With this sense of a new overwhelming freedom, several juniors decided to take this freedom a step further by double, triple, and in one case quadruple parking their cars in the newly liberated senior lot.

Though this was found to be humorous and cute by my fellow students, the administration had quite a different view. Though the ramifications at this point are vague, all students caught in this conflict are finding a delay in receiving parking passes this year, and in some cases even worse. Though Dr. Bilby couldn’t divulge any specifics, she made clear that this behavior was "disorderly conduct and would have definite ramifications." Also, this incident spawned a blunt and concise PARKING REGULATION section in the school handbook, stating that "Students must park in the designated student lot only and within the lines." This new section was the direct effect of the aforementioned incident as well as several others throughout the course of the 00-01 school year. Whether praise or shame was expressed toward the students involved, they have all seemed to move forward in their lives. So what shall become of our brave senior soldiers, fighting for their impossible dream in the parking lots as well as in the classroom? I guess only time will tell.