Students tailgating for Saturday’s game against Pittsburgh may notice the people checking their parking passes holding fake parking passes that students have forged for reasons know to the forgers themselves.

Shannon Yates, director of game operations, said while fake passes have been a problem in the past, they are a bigger problem this year though she said the problem couldn’t be blamed on one person or group of people.

“People are able to make copys of passes for parking lot near the fairgrounds or in the faculty and staff parking lot,” Yates said.

She said when people are caught with a fake parking pass, the offender is asked to go park in public parking off Blue Ridge Road and Trinity Road.

“Those lots are paid parking, they will have to pay the owners of the

businesses to park there,” she said.

Philip Junk, a sophomore in chemical engineering, parks in the the lot near the fairgrounds.

“Last week, when I was pulling in, I saw a cop holding about five fake passes,” he said.

Junk said passes should be made in a more specific manner to decrease the number of fake passes by making them harder to make.

“The makers of the passes should put a bar code on the pass just like they do you game tickets,” Junk said. “To me it seems like a good idea, but I doubt it’ll actually happen.”

Nick Smith, a junior in civil engineering, said he disagreed with the

bar code idea.

“What if someone copies your parking pass and uses your barcode,” Smith said.

He also said he wondered what was worse, giving your parking pass to the guard for him or her to look at or to scan.

“Either way it’s going to take time,” Smith said.

Yates said the main reason fake passes are made is so people can go tailgate with their friends.

Smith said he understood why students forged the passes, but said he imagined the punishment would be embarrassing.

“It would suck to get caught with one of those,” Smith said.