Aunc.1877
net.games
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Fri Feb 19 22:51:08 1982
Pac-Man
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (UPI) -- In some other parts of the country
parents are battling to keep their kids away from video games but
some West Virginia school officials are looking at Pac-Man,
Asteroids and the like as a way to ease a financial crunch.
Gene Douglas, the principal of suburban St. Albans High, settled
on a couple of Pac-Man machines to raise funds to buy a computer
center for the school.
It may not be educational but it is profitable. After six weeks
the two machines are pulling in $6 to $7 a day.
"Basically, our think was, we've had a lot of rain and snow and
it would give the kids something to do," Douglas said. "We have
kids coming in here as early as 7 o'clock in the morning, almost
before we have anybody in here to supervise them."
Peter Kelly, Herbert Hoover High athletic director, is working
on getting one of the machines for his school to raise money for
the general fund and athletic program.
On the other hand, some of us get computers to finance our video game
habits....
-----------------------------------------------------------------
gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <
[email protected]>
of
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/
This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:
1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.
2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:
The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.
