Unexpected Resnet broadcast of porn flick shocks students

Resnet has promised viewers a hot lineup, but thanks to what is assumed to be the work of cable hackers, students received more heat than they expected. Annenberg Channel 24 broadcast a hard-core pornographic film between the hours of 6:30 and 8 p.m., according to Wharton and Engineering junior John Bloom, who watched parts of the movie. Because neither Residential Living Director Gigi Simeone nor Resnet Video Programming and Academic Video Network Coordinator Chris Cook were available for comment last night, it is unclear as to whether this broadcast was intentional. "We were flipping around the channels, and were really shocked," Bloom said. "We looked out [of our window] to High Rise South and we saw at least three televisions tuned to the same channel. "They were doing everything," he added. College junior Reuven Bell said that as he entered High Rise North, people were yelling out the window to turn on channel 24. And Bloom said the station had no audio feed. He said he speculated hackers had somehow transmitted the movie over the Annenberg station. Bloom added that the video appeared to be a homemade. According to College sophomore Ross Levitt, the movie "looked like amateur style, but I'm not sure that [the actors] were amateurs." Levitt added, "I wouldn't have a problem with [pornography] on television, but without warning, people aren't ready for it-- students have Penn Pals in their apartments." But College sophomore Kristen Duran said she felt indifferent to the unexpected broadcast. "I don't have to watch it if I don't want to," she said. By 8 p.m., the porn flick on channel 24 was interrupted with a broadcast "Star Trek VI: The Final Frontier," which was already in progress on the channel 11, the Resnet Movie Channel.