Students face long lines on first day of school
Students wait in the Cashier’s line outside the Bookstore on the first day of semester. One student said they waited in line for more than one hour. The Cashier’s Office is open 8 a.m to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m to noon on Friday. Photo credit: John Fordiani
First time and returning EC students swarmed the campus today for the first day of spring semester weekday classes. Like any other semester, students were faced with the struggle to find parking and long lines at the Bookstore and Cashier’s Office.
Nearly all of the approximately 5,000 parking stalls on campus were occupied by 10 a.m. Students trying to find parking in Lot L parked in no parking zones due to the lots already being full.
A large crowd of students made four lines as they lined up outside the Cashier’s Office. Dean De Dios, 23, nursing major, said that he stood in line for an hour and 45 minutes to purchase a parking permit.
![Trustee Clifford Numark and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, who have been friends for almost 30 years, at the Board of Trustees Meeting on Monday, Nov. 10. "It has been an absolute pleasure and joy to be able to serve first Torrance, and then the South Bay community, the largest South Bay community, together," Muratsuchi said. [Eleni Klostrakis | The Union]](https://eccunion.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_4446-e1763244984544-450x600.jpeg)
