<p>If they’re spending money on blowing having people blow a single leaf off of the sidewalk (I saw this yesterday) and “light shows” and not on more parking they’re misusing money. </p>
<p>Michigan, we need more parking! Get on it! </p>
<p>They also allocate parking really stupidly. For instance, they changed the IOE/Cooley Blue lot from 6-5 to 6-8? Why? There was no reason. All you see now is that the lot sits mostly empty from 5:30 until 8. Is it just an obnoxious ploy to get more revenue from tickets? And making that lot by Stamps 24/7 Blue? Again, why? No one’s parking there on Saturday night. And why do these start at 6am anyway, no one’s there at 6am. I once went to move my car at 6:20am thinking it’d be fine. Nope. I see 3 cars in the entire parking lot and a ticket on my car timestamped at 6:11 am. Not cool Michigan.</p>
<p>Fix parking!</p>
<p>I want to see a $20 million of this specifically earmarked for parking. </p>
<p>Now that my parking rant is done, I don’t see the problem with monetizing the brand though. Isn’t that what good businesses do? Is the worry that it will diminish the perceived quality of the university or something?</p>