Herrington has heard every imaginable story about the injustice of parking tickets. He knows of parking squabbles that ended in shouted obscenities and threatening gestures, and has been asked, by the famous and the not-yet-famous, to fix citations. "The way you take care of it is to mail in $25," he says. "I don't fix tickets." The modern American university has been defined as warring departmental fiefdoms held together by a common concern about parking.