Living on Fraternity Row gives Greek students the convenience of living together and having a space to run around, but for the ones with a car at school, it gives them a headache.

When you pull out of the inside loop, you are forced to make a right onto Route One. If your destination is to the left, your next move is to either make a U-turn around a median, or make another right onto Rossborough Lane, and go around the back of the row.

“Most things I want to drive to are to the left, when I pull out," said Carli Aberle, a sophomore criminology major. “But you have to make a right when you come out, and then go all the way around the back instead. It's a hassle and a waste of gas, too.".

The parking lot assigned to residents of the row is lot 16. This has spaces that go around the horse shoe and then ones that fill a more rectangular lot behind Ritchie Coliseum.

The lot behind Ritchie is usually occupied by the fraternities that live in front of it.

Jason Queen, a sophomore government and politics major, lives on the left side of the row and has his car with him at school. He said he parks behind his house, because parking in front is too inconvenient.

Queen said that when you leave the lot, you can wait at one light and turn either left or right onto Route One instead of having to make the U-turns, or waste time going back around.

Traffic times also create aggravation for drivers like Aberle.

“The only way to get out of the row during traffic is to wait for the crosswalk light, and that's not safe for pedestrians," Aberle said. “It'd be nice if they made a little side street in front of Ritchie, so we don't have to do that.".

She said that adding a cut through between two houses would make it easier to get from the inside to the outside, but she doesn't like how it would increase traffic in front of her house.

Aberle, and sophomore hearing and speech major, Stephanie Ross, said the logistics of getting to where they want to go isn't the only problem with having a car on the row.

There are 154 spots around the inside for the houses that don't park behind Ritchie. Each house holds on average 35 students. If half of the occupants in each house decide to bring their cars, that's around 210 cars for the 14 houses.

“There's 33 people living in our house and if half of us have a car, that's fifteen spots," Ross said. “But if all of the other houses have the same numbers, then there aren't enough spots.".

Ross lives on the opposite side of the row from the rectangular lot 16. She said that the parking situation is unfair, because there is not a big lot behind her house like there is behind the others.

Aberle and Ross live in the same house, and they said that even the few spots behind their house, which are part of their lot, sometimes aren't available to them.

The Pocomoke Building, which is the police station to the right of Fraternity Row, has two lots for their patrol cars and employees. However, they don't always park in their assigned spots, taking away spaces from some of the houses.

“The police department has two parking lots and then they also park in the spots that are for our guests, when [the police] could park anywhere else," Aberle said. “Then our guests have nowhere to park. It's not fair.".