Commuter Life

Commuters have a very different experience throughout college than residential students do. Some commuters might have jobs and not have any student involvement on campus because they don’t have time. Wingate has a policy about Lyceums that each student requires a certain amount of events to attend in order to graduate, but this could be very hard for commuters to do because of the time they have to commit to outside jobs where they live. This is just one example of the hardships that commuters face during their college career. Another thing that could be hard on some commuters at Wingate is the parking spaces. There are very selected parking spaces for commuters around campus and where some of the parking lots are located, they are far from the classes. A lot of the time during the year too, there are events at the Batte Center or at LaVarne Banquet Hall that takes away many spaces for commuters during the day. A way to fix the lyceum requirement would be to eliminate the number of events required to do during the 4 year term. This would help take away some of the stress off of commuters because they might not have the time to go to them when they can during the week. For the parking spaces, I think it would be good to take up some space for the landscaping around campus to give commuters more parking lots. Some of the ones that are only supposed to be used for commuters get used by residents every day, which takes up a lot of the spaces that commuters need to park. Campus safety going through the commuter’s parking lots everyday would help crack down on that problem too, and leave open more spaces for commuters to park.

Brittany Tutterow