Video madness
EMU recreation center
supplies students, faculty
with daily electronic 'fix'
Object of game is to shoot as
many Robots as possible and
escape from room.
It's the only place on campus
where bleeps and obscenities are
the standard, accepted form of
communication It's also one of
few activities on campus that still
costs a quarter.
For a large number of mostly
male students, faculty and even
administrators, the EMU Arcade is
a cheap, exciting, electronic
answer to the frustrations of hit
ting and balancing the books
For Mai Fiese. manager of the
recreation center Bowling, now
the second most popular activity,
used to outdo the machines
2-to-1 just six years ago, Fiese
says
Yet Fiese thinks the machines
aren't doing nearly as well as they
could be Part of the reason is
students just don’t have as much
money for recreation, he says
But another reason may be that
the EMU doesn’t have the most
popular machines, Fiese admits
What games are missing?
Student video fans rattle off Pac
Man, Tempest, Galaga and
EMU Rec Center,
the 11 pinball and
14 video games are
hard cash The
contract year for
the machines,
which ended in
Donkey Kong as a
few of the new
machines that
haven't appeared in
the EMU
Also contributing
to lost revenue is
March, brought the EMU Rec
Center a profit of $47,000 — 62
percent of the quarters dumped in
the machines
"There's some people that
come down here every day — you
can set your watch by them,”
Fiese says The players begin
arriving at 7:30 a m., when two
men show up each morning for
their daily "fix” of video he says
On a busy day. the recreation
center cashier goes through
$500-$600 in quarters, he says
Players who used to get four
quarters now ask for $2 to $5
worth, he adds Some people
drop as much as $25 a week on
the games, "but maybe that's all
they do," Fiese says
The games currently are the
biggest money maker in the
the deteriorating condition of the
machines, Fiese says
"It's not that the people don't
want to come down here and
play It's just that they won’t come
down to play a piece of junk, ” he
says. "The recreation dollar is
getting stretched awfully thin We
can only compete with what we
have.”
The EMU is beginning the
second year of a three-year
contract with Canteen Company
of Oregon, which provides and
maintains all 25 machines
Company representative Harvey
Zeugin says the machines are
“rotated all the time — as
necessary."
However, in the words of a
once-a-day video player,
"They've taken out the most
Eyes riveted to the game, this weary student battles a tireless, electronic opponent.
popular game every time "
In January, the recreation
center had to build a wall around
the machines Thieves were
entering the EMU and breaking
into the machines at night, Fiese
says “They have to bust it to get
into it — and they bust it good "
He says the EMU lost a "sig
nificant” amount of money
Luckily, Canteen repaired the
damage
In spite of failing to achieve the
profits he would like, Fiese admits
the machines are a pretty good
deal
"It's pretty much gravy for us,"
he says "We re doing all right "
By Ann Portal
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Child care, club sports face EMU review
The budgets for the University Child Care Center and
Club Sports were the subject of testimony before the EMU
budget committee Thursday
Student-parents spoke of the need to keep the child
care center intact, calling the on-campus center "care you
can’t get anywhere else ” Another parent said the service
is “first class care” that is “good for the kids ’’
Though the program currently serves approximately
170 parents, EMU Board chairer Bob Needham said the
committee should "scale down" the program
The toddler program is currently operating at only 72
percent of capacity, said Mary-Curtis Gramley, child care
coordinator. The number of children entered in the
program is expected to decrease in the future with declin
ing enrollment, she said
Several club sport members testified in defense of the
program in their respective activities
‘ The University is getting a heck of a deal," said Scott
Chesnut, crew member, referring to the $52,000 the
University put into the crew program “Our club sports are
quite reputable and are definitely improving ”
Club sports serves some 600 students, including
teams such as crew, water polo and rugby
The major expenditure the budget committee
questioned was a food subsidy for those teams that travel
The IFC has a policy against subsidizing food and the
board should consider such a policy, said Karsten
Rasmussen, budget committee member and IFC chairer
But the program is directed toward on-campus
students who will generally have to pay out-of-pocket
expenses to participate in the off-campus trips if this
subsidy is eliminated, program director Sandy Vaughn
said
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