For the Love of Money...

So, a classic song by the O' jays is the inspiration for the title of this blog post...The subject matter revolving around the fees that go hand and hand with parking on a college campus in general, not just here at Old Dominion. As we are all probably aware of, ODU is notorious for long parking pass lines at the beginning of the Fall semester in particular. This will soon change, because ODU is looking into implementing the purchasing of decals online, with the mailing of the (hangers) after completing your purchases. As my friend at Virginia Tech informed me, this is how they purchase their parking passes. He stated "it's really easy, and convenient." Unfortunately, as we all also know, prices for these decals are quite expensive, and don't guarantee us a space exactly, but as I was surfin' the net, I found that ODU isn't the only school where parking decals are pricey. At the University of Virginia decals run about $195.00 a year, and at Virginia Tech, decals cost $114.00 a year, so ODU is kinda around the same general area price wise, but I'm sure we wish we were paying Techs $114.00 compared to our price of around $180, but hey we really don't have too much of a choice in the situation, inless you want to risk parking on the side of the street. I've seen cars get swiped by passing cars before on 49th, so I think paying for a permit is well worth it.
Hopefully, ODU will implement this process for the up coming Fall 2009 semester, I will be in contact with the Director of Parking & Transportation Mr. James Long, later this semester, to see when this process will be implemented exactly. I will be sure to let "you" the readers know when this information is in my hands.