UMKC campus has long been plagued by a persistent issue: parking scarcity.    With students voicing frustrations over the lack of available spaces and steep parking fees, the Student Government Association (SGA) has been pressured to address the problem.    During...

  Parking on campus sucks, and it costs as much as a textbook.   As a student working two part-time jobs, living in the big city on her own, I have to make decisions about what to spend my money on. Unfortunately, I don’t actually get to decide.   I work on UMKC’s...

UMKC commuter student Angel Rojas walks half a mile every day for class. Rojas, a senior biology major, says he used to purchase a parking pass, but didn’t get one this semester because he could never find parking. “I refuse to buy a parking pass,” said Rojas. “I...