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Parking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ® Carolina Center Parking Services said these spaces are nor mally open to USC students in the morning and early afternoon, but they’re off limits dur ing events. The Carolina Center’s Web site www.carolinacenter.net has a schedule post ed so you can see when you can’t park there. Make sure you know what’s going on so you won’t wind up parking a mile away and jog ging to class. ® 1600 Hampton St. Derick Huggins, parking director, an nounced a new 300-space lot four blocks up Pendleton Street from the BA building. Parking Services said the Carolina shuttle runs there and can take students to the main part of campus. ® Cliff Apartments About a 10-minute walk from the Russell House and five minutes from the Blatt PE Center, this lot can hold about 120 cars by my count. You don’t necessarily have to get there early. Any time I’ve parked here — noon, 1, 3 — there’ve been a fair amount of spaces. ® Any Decal Lot on Sumter and Catawba In reality this deceptive little green box be comes more like a swamp with twisted steel spikes jutting up from a desert-like terrain that encompasses about 175 spaces, none of them marked with the white paint that has spoiled us oh so rotten. There’s no lamp posts in this area that looks all but forgotten, and it’s surrounded by trees and dense foliage. Plan for a 15-minute walk from here to the Russell House. Considering there’s no bridge like the one that arcs over Blossom, you’ll have to wait for a crosswalk signal or jaywalk your way across campus. ® Resident Student lot on corner of Blossom and Barnwell This lot holds about 40 spaces. You can walk to Gambrell Hall from here in about eight minutes if you book it. Warning, big hill. Unofficial Lots As for the unofficial lots, no one attests to the safety or legality of these lots. These are just places where some people park at their own risk. ® Burger King lot on College Street This small lot holds about 40 spaces and sits right beSide Cool Beans, across from the Horseshoe. You couldn’t ask for a better space than this. It’s not quite legal, and there’s more than one reason not to park here. You run a high risk of getting blocked in by another car because people try to jam their SUVs into the avenue that runs through the lot. Just about every day in Cool Beans, someone walks in and says something like, “Do you drive a green civic, jerk? You’re blocking me in.” © Dirt lot on corner of Wheat and Pickens Many poor saps have had their cars broken into at this space. It’s not even on the USC map, but people leave their cars here, with no light ing and apparently no police rolling by. Another problem is the walk. It’ll take you a good 10 min utes to make it to the Russell House from here and you’ll have to walk up a giant hill. Closing advice: Any space is better than no space, and odds are if worse comes to worst you’ll just have to sacrifice some change and use one of the metered spaces. Odds are you can find one on Marion Street, right next to Maxcy College, or somewhere within a five minute walk of the Horseshoe. And don’t be afraid to walk. During the dark ages serfs might end up walking 20 miles a day just to accomplish all their daily activ ities and, sorry to break the news, indepen dent college students are the serfs of the 21st century. Of course, you can always ask your parents to buy you a prestigious space in one of the parking garages, registration accessible through the parking services main page. Good luck finding a space. As of now, all park ing garages are full. 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