European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 stars and stripes saturday february 19b6games children play to choose a career goal by Lou inn Lota associated press How do you raise the awareness of a 7-year-old?first you do some research on what kid think. Then you get a game Board handsome phony Money and ask them some thought provoking questions. The next move is theirs. Becky Bailey and Ann Nihlen have invented a game called working choices which is designed to help youngsters figure out what they want to be when they grow up and to discard certain prejudices about sex children Ham while having fun playing working Chollet a gome developed in new Mexico roles in the workplace. The game which up to four people can Pla looks like any other Board game. It has three decks of cards a die play Money and play markers. But the Board itself is unusual because it has pictures of real people doing real life jobs. Players Roll the die and move markers around the Board. They match Job pictures on the Board with Matching Job cards. This makes them look harder at working choices b an attempt to teach Chat inn net to Fere Type out. The pictures to determine whether the worker is male or female. Pc i did t have a Choice when i was growing up says j Bailey one of the inventors. I was either going to be a v nurse Secretary or  t1 Bailey and Nihlen who developed the game while t doing research at the University of new Mexico say one of the Job cards deals directly with breaking sex & role stereotypes. F in testing the women found that children would look & at pictures but were unable to Tell it the worker was a � woman. The children would refer to the worker As p  y the other two decks Are thought cards and feeling  k ii player lands on a Square that requires him to pick up a thought card it might say Point to the Cook. This person has children. Where do you think the children stay while he is at work a feeling card might say. My family always tells everyone i would be a Good Secretary when i grow up. T like people but i really like to be outside. Ii you were " this person How would you feel there Are no wrong answers  say to is important for children to assert their own feelings and thoughts about a certain occupation. When 20 children Ages 7-10, were asked to name the game they wanted to Call it the fun game.". This was no Surprise to the inventors who wanted the game to teach children a complicated lesson while they play. Bailey and Nihlen did not set out to develop a game. It was the product of three years of research at the Longfellow and Mccollum elementary schools in Albuquerque funded by the vocational education division of the new Mexico department of education. The $74,000 Grant specified the development of a a Bunch of losers who like it that Way by Susan Seager United press International i f you be decided you la never be Able to afford Bow or otherwise gain Yuppie status but hat feeling left out you might consider joining they ties a Bunch of losers who like it that Way. To be a ruffle or Young Urban failure you must accept the Heady goals of having lots of mindless fun accepting your own limitations and enjoy drinking Schlitz out of the can. Co founders Jeff Markell and Alex Murashko a pair of retired 29-year-old bartenders from Orange calif., View the group As sort of a Low brow Low tech backlash to the consumerism glorified by Young Urban professionals known As yuppies. I was sick of Reading the hype about  Murashko said. They re too  More than 500 self proclaimed decadent dreamers most of them Southern californians have joined the group since its formation a Lew months ago. Membership is gained simply by buying a $7 to shirt that entitles members to sporadic newsletters and invitations to tailgate parties at California Angels baseball games. Markell and Murashko say they Are out to save the world from rapid vapid materialism but they quickly add they Are not opposed to making a ittle Money while preaching the message of Stobb tem. They decided they had to do something since quitting their bartender jobs which they described As much too  to pay the rent and spread their anti Yuppie gospel the two Are marketing the ruffle to shirts $5 baseball hats and a $13 ruffle kit consisting of a Uffie Shin hat bumper sticker and Button. They also have a Uffie hotline for updates on group activities. A ruffle song is in the works written and performed by Marie Cain a piano bar Singer the two men met while bar tending. Part of the lyrics Are As follows forget the brie and come with me i la put you in the finest kind of company. We Don t act Stuffy we Don t get Huffy we Haven t got names like skip. Chip or  like the boy scouts Duffies win get their own handbook. From the chapter titled phrases and words Duffies either Don t know or Don t care to fat Bius could to be the Way londoners keep track t of their afternoon Tea expenses. State of the Art used Only to refer to a party that " has a Keg. X six figure salary personally no woman s figure is l Worth that much the handbook also teds members How to dress f shorts flip flops to shirts and baseball Caps what of read fiery ctr. Biker and Hustler what to drive a i Ford Pinto or recycled . Postal service truck. The two men concede they Are not the first to Coin. The name. It has popped up in an Ann Landers column k and in the cartoon strip.  of Markell and Murashko. However. Think they Are the first to form a group which they Hope will attract thousands of members. But the pair already has encountered a stumbling Block in the word  to some people the word is so negative that people Are offended by  said Markell who is proud of his status As a two time College dropout. Adds Murashko but i Tell them the Only thing we be really failed at is to reach Yuppie