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Originally Posted by Authentic_City
^The university objected to Garbanzo's application for VLTs.
The food at Garbanzo's wasn't that bad, I mean come on, the beer and pizza and wings were fine. But in the last year of operation, I witnessed actual fights taking place at the bus loop right outside the doors of Starbucks/Garbanzo's. Like people with bloody noses and screaming and yelling. There were very real issues of security, and UW security services was not able to be there all the time.
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When I was a student 14-16, there was always drunks and yelling, tons of people passed out as well (Downtown Spirit didnt help shuttling them there either), one time they even used to DRESS AS STUDENTS running through the garbages & loitering on capmus itaelf... but the fights weren't too common. The fights usually happened off campus. I think I ever saw one fight at the U of W ever, between some junkie masquerading as a student, who somehow got U of W computer access, that just randomly started attacking the woman beside her in the computer lab. But thats all I saw for physical violence.
Then, came the stabbing late 2017 of some foreign exchange student, over his laptop, by some guy on meth looking for "payday". Around the same time, AnX started looking WAY rougher as well, and it was a regular occurence to see people camped out & even passed out, in the lower levels of the University (UWSA offices). And of course, the student unions never did anything and neither did security, until the stabbing. And anytime after that, security increased drastically.
U of W security is a joke. Its rare to find WPS on campus either, they'll always be on Ellice or Portage, but never taking walks through campus (too lazy?), so the West End & underworld in general just exploits the shit out of the U of W, for illegal purposes. I think in all of that time, minus WPS coming to criminal justice classes to advertise for recruits, I only saw them in the AnX maybe once. Its kind of disappointing, public safety wise.
Bad news about Garbanzos though. I never knew that they shut down. Same with Starbucks. Damn.