The university had a record enrollment of 35,568 students last year and is expected to have a record or near-record again this year. How has this increase affected you?
“I think the biggest thing has to do with parking. There’s
always, you know, never enough parking for anybody, anywhere on campus. Over
the years that I’ve been here, with the increase, it’s just gotten that much
harder.”
Should the university continue to grow?
“I like that it keeps growing. I think that we can continue
to grow a bit more but by the same token I do think that we need to grow
ourselves, grow the buildings, grow the parking places, grow everything about
the university. But while it grows, it can’t be something that reactive. It’s
got to be proactive.”
Did the Size of the university influence your decision to come here?
“It did. My mom wanted me to go to a tiny school, like a
little private school that had somewhere around 500 students and I didn’t like
that idea. I liked the idea that I could walk through the quad and go a day
without seeing anyone I knew. It felt like its own little city and I love that
it’s big enough to do that.”
We've seen a lot of new changes over the last couple of years: new buildings, dorms, etc. Would you rather see this continue or focus on the parking problem?
“I think they need to do parking because the parking really
affects me but at the same time I do understand what they’re doing, you know,
with building the new dorms because we’ve seen over the past couple of years
that there aren’t enough places to house all the freshman that are coming in.
So if we are going to keep growing then by all means we need to have a place to
keep them.”
Caleb Davis, 21, is a student at Texas State University from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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