Last week, Ashleigh Barraca found herself awkwardly laughing while standing alone in line at Starbucks in the Hub.
The 20-year-old English junior noticed the TV on the wall directly in front of Starbucks showing the comedy "Bridesmaids."
"They were playing the scene where the girls are trying on dresses and they all start vomiting and pooping because of the food they ate," Barraca said. "I was surprised they were showing it, but it was nice to have a movie on while standing there."
But starting this week, Barraca will have to find a midday movie laugh elsewhere. The eight Resident TV movies shown in the Hub this semester will no longer be played.
Resident TV is the resident-hall channel that is owned and operated by the UF Department of Housing and Residence Education. Until Tuesday, the department was unaware that the channel was being played in the Hub, said Amy Jorgensen, marketing coordinator for the housing department.
Resident TV is only to be played in campus housing locations, Sharon Blansett, assistant to the associate vice president for student affairs, said in an email.
"The feed was misdirected," Blansett said. "This has been corrected."
Criminology and psychology freshman Brittany Sealey, 19, was bummed the Resident TV movies will no longer be shown in the Hub.
"‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One' was playing while I was there the other day, and I got really excited it was on," Sealey said. "It's lame they aren't showing them here anymore."
