The RHA campus movie offices, which are located in Akers, Rather, Gilchrist, Holden and Mason halls, have been functioning improperly since last semester, when the computers would not connect to the Internet correctly or allow some students to rent movies.

RHA Director of Movie Offices Justin Love said at last week’s RHA meeting, despite looking into fixing the problem, only Akers Hall remains open for rental.

RHA members met with Dawisha last week to discuss a solution to getting the rentals up and running again.

Love declined further comment, saying the movie rental system has encountered so many unexpected situations, he preferred not to speculate on what might happen.

“As we have clearly seen, surprises happen,” he said in an email.

But Love said “a lot is going to be changing” about the movie offices in the near future.

Dawisha did not have a specific timeline for when the repairs would take place but said the new computers should be available any day now.

After the problems on the older computers are fixed, RHA will receive the old computers back to “refresh” the system, he said.

Journalism freshman Emily Rose said she has never rented a movie from RHA but would prefer it to other, costlier services such as iTunes.

Rose said the system should be more stable and available to students because of the money on-campus residents invest in it through taxes they pay.

Dawisha said the electronic system is shared across campus by each movie office and keeping track of rentals manually would be difficult.

He said some office staff could not get onto the video renting system and suggested the age of the program prevents current users from accessing it. Because of a turnover of staff members, current students might not be as familiar with the rental services as their predecessors, he said.