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Matijevic prepared } for bigger role d n e k e e {W with Wildcats DAILYWILDCAT.COM Friday, February 3, 2017 –­ Sunday, February 5, 2017

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VOLUME 110 ISSUE 54

NEWS | PAGE 3

DACA STUDENTS ASK REGENTS FOR PROTECTION, WANT CAMPUSES MADE SAFE FOR ALL STUDENTS

ARTS & LIFE | PAGE 10 DIVA LA PAZ RETURNS TO CAMPUS FOR THE 21ST ANNUAL SHOW ON FRIDAY

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ARIZONA BASEBALL INFIELDER J.J. Matijevic swings at a pitch during Arizona’s matchup with California at Hi Corbett Field on April 26, 2015. Matijevic hopes to be one of Arizona’s most productive players this season.

DON’T PARK HERE

Between August 2015 and May 2016, Parking and Transportation issued nearly 22,000 citations on the UA campus. The data says that if you park illegally, PTS will catch you BY ALEX FURRIER @badjazzmaverick

If you build it, they will illegally park by it. Few things in life cause frustration like a lack of free parking, and even the best of us will explore the moral grey by pulling into a spot we may not have the legal right to occupy. Anyone with a vehicle

who has taken a trip around the UA knows this to be true. Our friends at Parking and Transportation guard the sanctity of oncampus parking with the one weapon all sane citizens fear: the parking ticket. In a perfect world, parking citations would not exist. But look no further for a dose of reality than the nearly

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22,000 citations PTS issued between August 2015 and May 2016. After digging into the data, a clear pattern emerges: if you park illegally, PTS is going to catch you. The Holy Grail: Where to park to avoid parking tickets The Daily Wildcat created a density map compiled of 21,947

parking citations obtained through a public records request. The map plots the 219 parking locations where PTS officers issued the most citations in relation to the the number of citations issued. PTS officers cover quite a bit of ground and no single area of campus is safe from their vigilant eyes, as is evident by the map.

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“When driving a vehicle, I would routinely travel 10-15 miles on a shift, and this would include the patrolling of the garage,” said Rick Harbaugh, enforcement program coordinator at PTS. “However, I prefer to walk and average about six miles per day on a shift.”

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