Dear Editor, Last month my best friend’s vechile was towed by Parking services. She was at the library studying for an exam she had the next day, came out and her car was missing. Her first response was to call campus safety. They showed up (I showed up 5 minutes after) and we were both shocked to find out that Campus Safety was unable to tell us if the car had been towed or if it was stolen. Aparently (and again, this came as a great shock) Campus Safety and Parking Services are two different institutions on campus, and the communication between the two can sometimes be incomplete. Parking Services had indeeded towed the car due to several unpaid parking tickets, but did not record the towing or report the towing to Campus Safety. All Campus Safety could tell us was that a few cars were towed that evening. So my best friend, and I are sitting in a DU parking lot at midnight, trying to figure out if we should report the car stolen, or if we should just go home and go to bed. Campus Safety was able to give us a cell phone number of a towing company that Parking Services sometimes used, but in this case, it wasn’t the correct towing company for my friend’s car. Campus safety had no other information. We had questions such as: Where is the towing company? How much would it cost to get her car back? Who was the towing company? We had to call Denver Police in order to find out where her car was at 1am that morning. I understand that these two institutions are separate on campus, but I was appalled when I realized her car could be either sitting at some lot in Denver, or joy riding half-way out of the state. Communication between these organizations should be stronger. And I understand parking tickets should be paid, but when they must be paid before we graduate or before we register, why tow their car in the first place?

Sincerely,Allison Peasley