The gates by Independence and the senior lot lack consistency with timing. This impacts many students, as they are faced with the decision on whether to walk around to a different gate or wait for someone to come open it.

“Sometimes it’s like two minutes. One time, it was like the bell rang and the gate wasn’t open, so it kind of just depends on the day. But when it opens, it opens. Sometimes it’s a little boring. Sometimes I’m trying to get out of there before all of the traffic, and then sometimes it’s not open, but it’s OK. I get a little sad. I might cry sometimes. I get to the door and I’m like, ‘It’s closed,’ and be thinking, ‘What could I be doing right now? Driving home,’” Caleb Barba said.

“It’s just a pain in the butt having to walk all the way around the building, and it just takes longer. Especially when I have work right after school. It’s like I want to leave fast and beat all the traffic, and it just makes it difficult to get off here fast because the traffic piles up, you know,” Evan Kuhl said.

According to campus monitor Stacia Delucchi, it has been difficult to open all the gates by the times that students need them to be. So, they’re asking students to just take the time and walk around to the gates that are open.

“Lately, it seems there’s been some concerns with the students about the parking and the gates on Fourth and feeling that they’re never open when they want them to be, but they have been. It’s just been a little change of, you know, with the manpower we have. We don’t want kids to be jumping the fence. So, we’ve asked them to go around the cafeteria, and also you can choose to park up in the front or through Barry, and you could have access going through 100,” Delucchi said.