The movie rental service, which has been offered since 1992, had locations in Akers, Gilchrist, Holden and Mason halls, as well as Brody Complex.

Rokisky said throughout the past two years, there have been several problems concerning the service.

In the past few years the office directors were only trying to maintain the movie rental program, hurting the program’s advancement, he added.

“The service was on and off for the past couple of years,” said Zachary DeRade, the RHA president.

In the 2011-2012 school year, freshmen could not rent out movies.

DeRade said the service ran into a lot of technology issues, specifically problems with the servers.

Last year, they ran into problems because of outdated software that was not compatible with the university’s.

DeRade said RHA is working to better the movie rental program because it “has not been reliable for students” in the past couple years.

The organization continues to search for better ideas to operate the offices.

The 18 student employees were notified of the shutdown after the start of the semester, giving most of them little time to look for a new job, said Katie Martin, advertising senior and former RHA movie office employee.

Martin said the RHA president called her recently to notify her about the decision, adding that she was told that the former employees of the offices would be the first ones to be notified when the offices open up.

“I’m graduating in December and I need the money,” Martin said. “I need to find a job, but I don’t think anyone would hire me for a semester.”

Martin said she didn’t expect the decision since they had brainstorming session towards the end of last semester about bettering the service and spreading more awareness.

More employees had also been hired for the service.

DeRade said they could not have notified the employees sooner, since the decision to close the offices happened quickly.

He said RHA also had to approve the new budget before notifying movie rental employees of the change.