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My school had the same kind of gestapo security force as everyone else has mentioned. We had plenty of dorm parking, just not always convenient, near your dorm, or in my opinion safe. Commuters, forget it. You were lucky to park. My apartment was just across the street from the school. Each apartment was assigned a double length parking space. You parked one in front of the other, and the person in the front couldn't leave until the person in the back had left. I would come home from work or the store and discover cars parked in my assigned space. I would then pull in behind them and go to class. When I came out I would find nasty notes and scratches on my car from the person I had "unfairly" blocked in. Sometimes I would come home from class to discover that I was blocked into my spot and couldn't leave to go to work until this person had gotten out of class. The apartment manager was the only one who could call for a tow truck, and he had a rule that the car must have been there for 3 hours before he would tow it (time started when we called it in). That was fine and well for that person, but my boss wasn't pleased about me showing up 2-3 hours late for work!
Parking got to be such an issue that a member of the student newspaper did some research. It was discovered that the money from parking tickets went to the athletic fund. (That also explained why athletes were never ticketed.) There was a HUGE stink over that. I think now the money goes to student entertainment or scholarships. They built some parking lots across the highway, and put in two lights with crosswalks, but they still continue to sell more passes than there are spaces.
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