"Body Chemistry 3: Point of Seduction," "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids" and "Burial of the Rats." Topside convenience store is selling these and other videos this week for three to five dollars.
Because these videos are not rented often, Topside is selling them with hopes of freeing up valuable floor space and raise money to buy more current movies, Director of Dining Services Tucker Rossiter said.
"The main reason for selling the movies was to deplete the video selection to make room for a new cooler to hold Tropicana products," Topside Manager Doreen Betters said.
"The sale has gone on a lot better than we had anticipated," Betters added.
According to Betters, the convenience store started with 370 videos, is currently down to about a hundred and plans to continue selling the videos until all are gone.
Topside will still rent current videos, as well as certain frequently rented classics.
Topside's video collection was previously the subject of a police investigation which led to former Topside manager Bob Jette's indictment in early 1997 for embezzlement charges.
On March 23 of this year, Jette plead guilty at Grafton Superior Court for embezzling about $30,000 dollars from the convenience store.
Hanover Police Detective Sergeant Frank Moran previously told The Dartmouth that Jette conspired with W. Frederick Baker of Baker Video, the company Topside formerly used as its video supplier, by exaggerating the number of late fees and number of videos rented to Dartmouth's office of Accounts Payable.
The Accounts Payable office would then send Baker Video larger checks, Moran said, and Baker split the money with Jette.
But Betters said there is no connection between the videos currently being sold at Topside and the Jette embezzlement scandal. She said she had to wait before all was "squared away with the Baker account" before starting the sale.
DDS Financial Manager Don Blume said the College has paid for, and Topside owns, all the videos.
Jette was sentenced to three months at the North Haverhill House of Corrections with a five-year period of probation, Grafton County Attorney Ken Anderson said.
According to Anderson, Jette must also pay restitution of $35,272 dollars and perform 200 hours of community service.
Jette was released from the House of Corrections last Tuesday and is currently under house arrest with an electronic monitor, Anderson said.
