Video arcades safe
for teens, study says
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - Video played in video parlors in the Los
arcades give teen-agers a safe place to Angeles area. He presented his results
hang out with their friends, and don't at a video game conference organized
promote truancy, create zombies or by the Harvard Graduate School of
"pose a threat to the morals of Education and financed in part by Atari
American youth," a researcher said Inc., a maker of video games.
yesterday. Brooks said he found that playing the
"The concerns heard all over the games does not ordinarily lure kids
country appear to be based on fear and away from school, take their lunch
not on facts," said B. David Brooks, a money or render them glassy-eyed
specialist on juvenile crime at the video addicts.
University of Southern California. "The arcade serves as a place of
BROOKS SAID he based his con- recreation for kids," Brooks said, "and
clusion on a survey of 973 youngsters it does not pose a threat to the morals of
between the ages of 10 and 18 who American youth."
AFSCME vote divides
secretaries, clericals

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Thiry said the University's policy for
emphasizing merit pay increases in-
stead of across-the-board raises is a
"constructive way of allocating
University resources among staff
members."
"Across the board pay increases are
fair," said Mary Hartness, a secretary
in the Department of Sociology
tness said equal salary will ensure that
workers in small departments will not

suffer because of the budget cuts being
made under the University's five-year
plan.
University personnel director Jim
Thiry said the vote threatens the right
of the secretaries and clericals to
represent themselves individually.
A VOTE to unionize would allow only
union representatives to negotiate
salaries and job benefits for the
clericals, Thiry said.
University administrators are
prohibited by law from commenting on
the vote.

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