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By John Vaughan
Staff Writer
With 12 electronic game ma
pool tables, the Russell House
the Russell House University I
source of revenue, according
Brandt, assistant business dii
union.
The gameroom earns betwe<
$75,00(1 each year, Brandt
semester the facility grossed a
Brandt said the gameroom b
money in the first half of the yc
spring .
BR VN'DT AND Harry
director of technical servicc
even though the gameroom 1
cessful, thr union operates at c.
"In th 10: 4 run, we see a
and the v\v ersitv will kick
extra costs," Bousl ourelis saic
Be ause tV this deficit the u
rely o;ik ot the gameroom fc
revenue. .-.aid Thomas Otts, X
director He said the union
money by renting out the H
Ballroom for high school proi
functions.
"WE WANT to keep it (the \
popular facility and one that
Bostic t
Staff Reports
Dr. James E. Bostic Jr.,
chairman of the state
Commission on Higher
Education, has been appointed
to a 17-member task
force designed to help
Southern schools and
colleges form closer links.
Florida Governor Bob
Graham, chairman of the
Southern Regional
Educational Board, appointed
Bostic to the task
force.
At the last meeting of the
education board the
e c?cutive committee asked
Graham to form the task
force b?cause of a growing
concern for the quality of
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gameroom is since the inc
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I to Kenneth He said the
rector for the a smaller ro
Russell House
en $68,000 and "it's four buil
said. Last Otts said 1
bout $40,000. machines up-1
rings in more big company
;ar than in the they usually c
ones, we pica
each year," I
Bousbourelis, about$2,500.
?s, both said
las been sue- TECHNIC A
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slight deficit, said a new m
in for these each week, b
i. machines brir
nion does not Revenues fr
>r a source of tables are abo
liissell House Though no
ilso receives said about 70C
Lussell House judging from
ms and other machines and
reserving pool
The gamen
gameroom) a students, with
the students manager this:
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education at all levels.
The group will meet
during the next six months to
list priorities for consideration
at the board's
annual June meeting.
"Closer collaboration is
needed between colleges and
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A gameroom is the traditional
ty I think you'll find in any
university. It has been here
eption of the Russell House
jilt in 1954," Otts said.
room was originally located in
om on the third floor. "The
? is like four unions," he said,
dings built together."
:he union tries to keep the
:o-date. "Bally-Williams is the
producing the machines, and
ome out twice a year with new
; up five or six new machines
ie said. A new machine costs
L services is resoonsibie for
of the machines. Bousbourelis
achine may gross $150 to $200
iut some of the less popular
ig in only $5 to $50 a week,
om the machines and the pool
ut equal, according to Brandt,
door count is taken, Brandt
> students use the room daily,
the tallies taken from the
from the number of students
I tables.
>om is staffed completely by
i 16 employees and a student
semester.
on task
school systems to address
certain areas of mutual
concern," Graham said.
"Examples of such areas
are the preparation of
teachers, their continuing
education and articulation
between the secondary and
post-secondary schools in
vocational education and
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of elected public
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representatives, teacher
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and elementary and
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