Dear Editor:
I am writing in response to a recent letter to the editor. The author came to the conclusion that parking is worth $200 a year and we should pay faculty not to park. He even suggested that all people should be charged to park on campus or even at apartment complexes.
Well, I have come up with a great idea to make even more money for the university and increase the enrollment here while decreasing class size. Here at BYU we have reached an enrollment cap, so what we can do is charge what each chair is worth, in each classroom, $25 a year. Students who choose not to come to class, would be given this money to encourage more open spaces. We then could have an enrollment even higher (more money for the university) by paying students not to go to class.
Students who did go to class would pay for those who didn't so there wouldn't be any financial stress on the school. This would solve the over-crowding problem as well as the enrollment problem.
As all can see this makes as much sense as charging $200 for a parking space and paying people not to park. The solution to the parking problem is not that difficult. There are parking garages all over the country that make money, so why can't BYU?