Show I Vandalism shuts down games room I Christa McKinnon Managing Editor THE T HE College Center games room was vandalized on July 2 marking the second time in a year that the facility had to shut down operations because of vandals according to Mike Thurman Operations Manager of the College Cen Cen- ter Nine out of the 15 video arcade games were forced open with a crowbar Thurman said we have our suspects but theres there's no proof or evidence The vandals after prying the machines open r took several hundred dollars in quarters An exact amount was not available These people are r really illy sneaky Thurman said adding that it it is suspected that there was more than one person involved in the occurrence You dont don't do o this without help Thurman said that it is still undecided undecided un un- un- un decided whether the games room will reopen I feel like just saying to heck with it we can always use this space for something else leases the arcade games from a video game distributor Thurman Thurman Thurman Thur Thur- man mentioned that some of the games were so badly damaged that the company company company com com- pany may choose to stop doing business with because it is costing more money to fix them than the profits are worth splits the profits of the video games game 50 SO-SO with Curtis Smout Director of College Ce Center ter activities noted that will have a hard time convincing the owners to keep their games here Thurman also added that the room was filled with cigarette butts that had been thrown all over the room Smoking Smoking Smoking ing in the games room is in direct violation violation violation viola viola- tion to College Center policy which states that smoking is allowed only in inthe inthe inthe the South Cafeteria We cross our fingers and hope people are mature enough but that obviously isn't the case said Thurman The game room had been closed for remodeling and had only been reopened for three weeks when the incident incident incident inci inci- dent occurred |