2—The Daily Collegian Monday, July 3e 1984
police log Polygraphs gain popularity with employers
• Bill Watson, 113 Shunk, reported
to University Police Services that on
Friday evening an unknown person or
persons were throwing urine and
feces from a window in Porter Hall at
small children and University stu
dents.
• Robert Merchant, 608 Porter,
reported to police that unidentified
individuals were seen pulling down
ceiling tiles outside his room. Dam
ages were set at $5O.
• Charles Baylor, 170 Atherton
Hall, reported that a cassette player
/radio was missing from his car,
parked in Parking Lot 42. Baylor also
reported that the rear bicycle tire
was missing from his bike, where it
was parked at the bike rack on the
east side of Atherton Hall. Total value
of the stolen articles was estimated at
$ll5. by Paul Chiland
notes
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The use of lie detectors, once confined mostly to
criminal investigations and a few high-risk jobs, has
increased dramatically in the workplace.
The polygraph, or lie detector, industry said more than
25 percent of major U.S. companies employ such tests to
screen job applicants or investigate wrongdoing. At some
concerns workers are tested periodically simply to dis
courage dishonesty.
The testing of federal government workers has tripled
in the past 10 years and could be sharply expanded if the
Reagan administration moves ahead with an announced
offensive, currently on hold, against information leaks.
Employers say the polygraph is effective against thiev
ery, fraud, vandalism, sabotage and other misconduct
and that it can exonerate the innocent.
Critics acknowledge employers' concerns, but their
chief objection to polygraph testing is that errors occur.
Even officials of the American Polygraph Association
(APA), composed of about 2,500 polygraphers, concede
results are wrong or inconclusive about 10 percent of the
time, even in the hands of a competent examiner.
Because of concerns about accuracy, courts rarely
admit polygraph test results as evidence unless opposing
parties in a case agree.
The polygraph doesn't detect lies per se; it records
blood pressure, perspiration and breathing patterns. In
theory, false replies cause emotional stress that cause the
physiological functions to change. But not everyone
reacts the same way, and the same person may react
differently under different testing conditions.
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• Learn your legal rights. Eighteen states and the
District of Columbia have , statutes that either prohibit
employers from requesting or requiring tests or forbid
mandatory testing. Also some jurisdictions regulate other
testing methods, such as written -"honesty tests" and
psychological stress evaluators.
For details, contact a local office of the American Civil
Liberties Union; your state attorney general's office or
fair employment practices commission; or the Legal
Action Center in New York City, a public-interest law
firm that has filed a half-dozen suits against polygraph
users.
• If you're covered by a union contract, see whether it
affords any protection, possibly through grievance, or
arbitration procedures.
• If your fellow employees have been asked or ordered
to take tests, talk with them. On occasion groups of
workers have balked, and their employers have backed
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• Tell your employer polygraph, tests can be inaccu
rate and their validity for personnel security screening
has never been scientifically established. He or she just
might have second thoughts.
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• Report any physical conditions or medications
you're taking that could affect the results.
• Ask to see a list of the questions before the test.
Object to any you think are unfair or improper.
• Don't sign away any legal rights. Examinees are
usually asked to sign a consent form before the interroga
tion beings. Read it carefully. If it appears to protect your
employer or the polygrapher from liability, refuse to sign
until you see a lawyer.
• Be careful about volunteering information. One
study showed that 90 percent of the job seekers who were
rejected after being examined were tripped up by their
own admissions, not by the actual test results.
• Ask to see the polygrapher's report.
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By MAUD B. BEELMAN
Associated Press Writer
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. Hen
ry's Hideaway is no ordinary, run-of
the-gin-mill bar. In addition to' cotch
on the rocks or plain cranberry juice,
the thirsty can get a few holy words
from the proprietor.
Henry's is owned by St. Henry's
Roman Catholic Church, and its
founder and proprietor is none other
than the parish piriest, the Rev.
James Reynolds. A gregarious son of
Irish immigrants, Reynolds set up
the parish hall pub as a place for
"wholesome" conversation and mer
ry-making, like the pubs of his ances
tral land.
"God made us body and soul and
we should socialize," explained Rey
nolds, a former tour guide and waiter
at Schrafft's in New York. "I think
God intends us to have a good time on
Earth."
Henry's Hideaway opened April 29
after receiving a liquor license from a
"pleasantly surprised" state of Flor
ida, the priest said last week. It's a
small, private club separated by a
sliding partition from the new parish
hall, which opens onto a patio over
looking a canal.
Membership, now numbering 130,
costs $5 a year. The establishment is
open only on Saturday nights, from 5
to 11 p.m.
The venture' has the blessing of
Edward A. McCarthy, archbishop of
Miami. In a recent letter to Reynolds,
McCarthy wrote: "It seems to me
you are pioneering in something that
may prove very effective pastoral
ly."
Russell Shaw, a spokesman for the
U.S. Catholic Conference in Washing
ton, D.C., said he had not heard of any
other set-up similar to Henry's Hidea-
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way in the nation. "At the very least,
it's unusual," he said.
Reynolds joined St. Henry's, "a
poor, little, struggling parish in a
warehouse area," in 1980. He imme
diately saw the need for a parish hall
and persuaded parishioners to loan
$210,000 to an interest-free program
for the $300,000 building, which in
cludes both hall and bar.
When Reynolds heard that a friend,
Fort Lauderdale restaurateur Joe
Williamson, was selling his place, he
asked for furniture donations for the
hall. Williamson told the priest to
come over and pick out what he
wanted.
"And then it happened, I saw the
bar for the first time.. . . and I said,
`Joe, how 'bout the bar?' " said Rey
nolds. Williamson agreed and threw
in the bar well for making drinks.
But the priest credits the archbish
op with providing the initial inspira
tion.
"They have a great pub mentali
ty," Reynolds quoted the archbishop
as saying after MdCarthy's visit to
Ireland three years ago. McCarthy
suggested that his pastors try some
thing similar to give parishioners a
social meeting place an alternative
to commercial bars.
Reynolds, a priest for 34 years with
master's degrees in education and
counseling, likes to think Henry's
brings "country-club living to the
average parishioner."
"All of us have our crosses, all of us
have our sorrows in life, and our jobs
as priests and spiritual leaders is to
inspire the people and assist them in
their problems and afford them the
opportunity to be joyous," he said.
When the bar first opened, Henry's
didn't take in enough to pay its bar
tender, a retired restaurant worker
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Viewers in need of
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RADNOR (AP) Happy endings to televison
shows provide "important and useful" fantasies
for viewers in a troubled world, according to a
prominent psychiatrist.
In a psychiatric evaluation of television pro
grams in this week's issue of TV Guide magazine,
Dr. John P. Docherty said the happy endings that
irritate critics are actually healthy for viewers.
"It (a happy ending) is an affirmation of opti
mism, an antidote to bitterness and is psychologi
cally valid," Docherty wrote. "In real life, despite
setbacks, a healthy, emotionally resilient person
keeps trying to fashion his own happy endings."
The Rockville, Md., psychiatrist said he often
feels a professional impulse to evaluate the char
acters in television programs he watches.
y Collegian Monday, July 30, 1984
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For example, Docherty found "Dynasty's" di
abolical Alexis, played by Joan Collins, was "not
likely
. to be approachable" by psychotheraby. Yet
Docherty thought he could help Blake Carrington,
a character played by John Forsythe.
"I'd like to see Blake in therapy, with the goal of
helping him to fix clearly in mind the manipulative
and malevolent nature of his ex-wife and to help
relieve him of his vulnerability to the guilt feelings
Alexis so cunningly plays upon," said Docherty,
chief of psychotherapy research at the National
Institute of Mental Health.
When watching "Hill Street Blues," Docherty
said Frank Furillo is a "strong, appealing charac
ter" whose excessive sense of responsibility car
ries a negative side.