Parking fees increase, proposal changed
Last week, the University Standing Committee on Parking sent President David Leebron its proposal for next year's parking fees and policies. The main points of the proposal included returning to a tiered-fee system depending on seniority and reducing the fee for the Greenbriar Lot. For the first time since Leebron has been in office, he rejected the committee's annual recommendations; instead, Leebron offered his own suggestions to the Parking Committee.The committee had proposed a change to the undergraduate student surcharge, which is an additional charge on top of the original parking fee. The committee proposed a tiered-fee system, which was in place from fall 2002 to the 2006-'07 academic year, in which student parkers pay different surcharges according to their class year. The committee recommended that freshmen pay $300, sophomores $250, juniors $200 and seniors $150.