Prostitution ring operating at University Center
By: Nevin Batiwalla
Contributing Writer
Issue date: 7/6/06 Section: News
- Page 1 of 2 next >
Fifteen dollars can get you a lot at The University Center. You can shoot pool with a friend for three hours at the Side Pocket game room, or you can drop your pants and receive oral sex from a stranger in the bathroom.
The black Sharpie written messages on the walls of the second and third floor men's bathrooms tell the story.
The messages offer oral and anal sex to "straight, curious or married guys, (ages) 18-37, anytime, white or Hispanic only."
Also within the stalls, the message, "1st floor bj," has been written in numerous places in similar handwriting. After a visit to the first floor, which is on the basement level, it is clear why.
There is a "glory hole" drilled in the wall between the two stalls in the first floor men's bathroom in The University Center. And it has been there for a while. "Glory holes" are fist-sized holes, through which people anonymously perform various sexual acts.
"I noticed it last September," said a student, who asked to remain anonymous. The junior English major said that while he was using a urinal in the first floor men's room, a man in the first stall slipped him a note, asking if he wanted oral sex. "I thought it was a joke, until I read the writings on the walls and saw the hole."
He decided to look into what was going on. He remembered the man wore New Balance shoes, and the next time he went in the bathroom he saw the same pair of shoes in the stall. He waited outside in the hall until the person left. During this time, he saw other men go into the bathroom, each staying about 30 minutes.
"I think those were his customers," he said.
Two hours passed and the student was tired of waiting for the man to exit, so he left The UC
A recent investigation by The Daily Helmsman picked up where the English major left off. A reporter accompanied by two other U of M students, observed a short, stocky balding man wearing glasses enter the restroom. An hour later, he walked through the parking garage to a visitors' lot on Zach Curlin.
The black Sharpie written messages on the walls of the second and third floor men's bathrooms tell the story.
The messages offer oral and anal sex to "straight, curious or married guys, (ages) 18-37, anytime, white or Hispanic only."
Also within the stalls, the message, "1st floor bj," has been written in numerous places in similar handwriting. After a visit to the first floor, which is on the basement level, it is clear why.
There is a "glory hole" drilled in the wall between the two stalls in the first floor men's bathroom in The University Center. And it has been there for a while. "Glory holes" are fist-sized holes, through which people anonymously perform various sexual acts.
"I noticed it last September," said a student, who asked to remain anonymous. The junior English major said that while he was using a urinal in the first floor men's room, a man in the first stall slipped him a note, asking if he wanted oral sex. "I thought it was a joke, until I read the writings on the walls and saw the hole."
He decided to look into what was going on. He remembered the man wore New Balance shoes, and the next time he went in the bathroom he saw the same pair of shoes in the stall. He waited outside in the hall until the person left. During this time, he saw other men go into the bathroom, each staying about 30 minutes.
"I think those were his customers," he said.
Two hours passed and the student was tired of waiting for the man to exit, so he left The UC
A recent investigation by The Daily Helmsman picked up where the English major left off. A reporter accompanied by two other U of M students, observed a short, stocky balding man wearing glasses enter the restroom. An hour later, he walked through the parking garage to a visitors' lot on Zach Curlin.