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Article: Video games- a fifth class or just a healthy study break?
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- University Wire
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- November 23, 1998
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Jeremy Flattau
University Wire
11-23-1998
(Brown Daily Herald) (U-WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Many have experienced it - walking into a room full of people playing video games. More often than not, what follows barely passes for a conversation and leaves the outsider wondering what drug the players are on.
"I've tried talking to people while they're playing video games," said Philip Cheung '01. "I ask them a question and they don't say anything, then five minutes later they all of a sudden answer my question."
Besides creating strange conversations, some students find that video games take up great amounts of their time.
"Video games have a negative impact," said Alex Blumer '01, who admits to ...