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Katherine E. Miller '89, manager of Harvard Union Services Agency (HUSA) ran high-score contests at the Union for Asteroids and pinball last spring which drew many people competing for the first-place prize of Celtics tickets. But even without incentive, the Union gameroom almost always contains at least a faithful few. Miller says that sometimes people just can't seem to stay away...
...About two weeks ago I got an exterminator to fumigate the gameroom, and because the gas fumes he used were toxic, I had to shut the gameroom from 12 noon to 6 p.m. I put up big signs warning people to stay out, but when I went down there at two in the afternoon, about five people were in the room playing away. The exterminator hadn't locked the gameroom door and they had come in and couldn't have cared less about poisonous gas. Well, we all have our priorities," Miller says...
Morse said, however, that the police merely followed the lead of a witness who had seen a Black man "apparently with cook's regalia on. "He said that the student witness, an employee at the gameroom, had voluntarily opened his own knapsack for police search and that the police followed up all other leads...
...House they call him "Butt-fucker" because he does all the dirty work. He's the guy they turn to when a hot water pipe bursts in the gameroom at 2 a.m. or when the Toast-R-Oven short-circuits the entire first floor. When they had a Hawaiian party and didn't know what to do with all the sand, he figured out a way to truck it down the block to a tiny tributary of the Charles. To this day, Butt-fucker's Beach lies invitingly under the overpass, at the intersection of Beacon Street and Charles Gate...