Written by: The Vanguard Editorial Board

The Celtics-Cavaliers game last Thursday was perhaps the biggest game of the season for Boston so far this year.

Millions of people tuned in to watch the C’s take on LeBron James and the Cavs, while Bentley students scoured the Web to try to find the game online.

Why? Because TNT disappeared into thin air last week, along with several other popular TV channels on the Comcast lineup like Food Network, Cartoon Network and the Weather Channel.

It started with an annoying message that popped up on the screen, saying, “If you can see this message, the TV you’re watching does not have the equipment needed for Comcast’s upcoming digital network enhancement.”

“Yeah okay, whatever,” said the Bentley population. “Just get that stupid white box off my South Park rerun.”

What seemed like just a minor annoyance soon became a campus-wide epidemic, as even students with the Comcast cable box saw their channels disappear.

It is a problem that cannot be ignored, and Bentley needs to take some sort of action. This is the cable that is included in our housing costs that is being taken away. We aren’t seeing any sort of refunds, but we’re standing by while Comcast is just pulling our channels.

People with the digital box are going to see their movie and other premium channels disappear after March 23, leaving these students with no options. Bentley has said they are looking at other alternatives for the 2010-2011 year, but what about the last two months of this year?

Something just doesn’t seem quite right about this situation, in which Comcast can just pull our channels with a couple days’ warning, and we have no power to do anything about it.

According to a school-wide e-mail, we will have our entire channel lineup converted to digital. But according to our error message, we do not have the proper equipment to support “Comcast’s upcoming digital network enhancement,” leaving one to wonder just what will happen on March 23.

Even if we do get the channels back, it just isn’t right to take away what every student pays for, even for a month, not to mention those students with a cable box and premium channels that will simply vanish.

It is a travesty that Bentley students will have to go without their movie channels, but how can you expect a Finance major to study for a big test on a week night without Adult Swim playing in the background? How are you supposed to justify skipping a 2:10 class on a Tuesday afternoon if you can’t enjoy a Lifetime original movie? I can’t watch 30 Minute Meals with Rachel Ray? I knew it was all a plot to get us to eat more at Seasons!

It’s time to get this straightened out so that the Bentley community can get what they paid for, a full lineup of Comcast channels and premium movie channels. Even a month without full service just isn’t right, nor does it make any sense.