Students and staff can use soup cans to pay off UT parking tickets. Nearly 100 cans of soup – worth more than $600 in parking citations – have been donated since Monday’s launch.
UT is allowing students and staff with parking citations to donate cans of soup instead of paying their fines.
Through the program, students and staff at the university can pay off $15-$35 citations with five 10-ounce cans of soup, and $36-$75 citations with seven 10-ounce cans of soup. The donations can be made at any of the six parking garage offices located on campus until March 24. Food for Fines began in 2018 as an initiative between UT Outpost, Parking and Transportation Services and UT student government as a way to address food insecurity, PTS Director Blanca Gamez said. In the program’s first year, 160 jars of peanut butter were exchanged for $1,000 in fines; the following year, 328 cans of pineapple were exchanged for nearly $3,000 in fines, she said.
The donations are expected to benefit many students on campus, especially those who frequent the Outpost.
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