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Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection September 1980 New Expression: September 1980 (Volume 4, Issue 6) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "New Expression: September 1980 (Volume 4, Issue 6)" (1980). New Expression. 32. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/32 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Youth Communication Chicago Collection at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Expression by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. Vol. 4, No.6 ~ The.Dating Photo by Eric Scott Bradshaw Debate!. The dating issue is creating a relationships be improved serious tension between before the disagreement is too parents and teens. New big to handle? See page 5 for Expression takes a look at this relief. struggle. Can human .• liililllllllll,llillll:'';llllllli:iii.i'!'!li·!;:·.: ::',··.!'!!!!·!!'i·.!'.!!lli!il1i:l. Sina's lack of fear becomes Carter's war on potato chips lack of asylum more tasteful, and many schools have problems with the long lines." To get more student input into the menu planning, Youth Advisory Coun cils or YAC groups that will work together Potato chips, cheese popcorn,cf>OP, with the student body principal and Kooi-Aid, donuts, Hershey bars are not cafeteria personnel are being set up in nutritional, but they are all part of an public and private school districts. They average school lunch. Illinois students help 1nform the State Council of nutri prefer "junkfood" to "free food" provided tional needs and SUQgestions on how to by the government, according to the better the meals. U.S. Department of Agriculture's re "The real problem here is that these search. junkfoods are available within the school One major reason is the lack of variety during the time that the funded meals in the lunch program, as expressed by a are being served," said Dean. So to help student from Dunbar, "Everyday, I mean win this fight between "junkfood". vs. everyday we have cheese burgers; you "free food," the federal government is really get tired of 1!. I'd rather spend my asking state governments to reinforce Photo by Patrick Hunt money." the ban on :he sale of "junkfood" during David Anderson, a senior at Lindblom lunch periods. Looks like it's time to lock right direction. If you don't have a YAC Photo by Floyd McGee says, "It's some things you can eat and up the old vending machmes. group at your school, get one started. some you can't, like the potatoes are Editor's Comment: It's about time For more info, write the U.S. Dept. of watery every time we have them." someone wants student input. If the Agriculture or Af)lerican School Food Robert W. Dean, Midwest Director of Youth Advisory Councils can provide a service Assoc;iation, at 4101 E. Eliff, De USDA's Nutritional and Technical sec way for students to dicuss lunch room nver, Colorado 80222. Don't miss this tion, said, "Students think junkfood is menus and policies, that is a step in the once in a life time chance. In the January issue of New Expres sion, you met Sina Fazel Matin at the onset of the hostage situation. Sina was an Iranian teenager, living in Chicago Summer's jobless graduate early and attending Cathedral high school. Sina expressed little concern about the jobless summers continue, many more Scholarship Commission at 203 N. treatment given the Iranians in the U.S. students will go to school year-round Wabash (793-3745). and had no fears of bemg sent out of this and graduate in three years. ••• country. ••• On April 8, 1980 President Carter cut A lot of college students in Chicago Students applying for an Illinois State Students who are children of Vietnam off relations with Iran. He ordered Ira were jobless this summer. But, instead Scholarship this year are eligible for a Veterans are eligible to apply for a new nians working for tne government in this of Sitting around the house with nothing scholarship award at a maximum of state tuition scholarship. This grant is country to leave the U.S. in 24 hours. to do, they enrolled in college and uni $1,900 a year. This is a $100 increase awarded to children of veterans who The next 24 hours for Sina and his family versity summer classes. over last year's scholarship award. were in the Vietnam War between Jan. 1, was like a nightmare. The number of students that enrolled The maximum family earning level for 1969 and May 7, 1975. For further infor The Matin family we're placed under at Northern Illinois University, Chicago a student to be eligible for a state schol mation concerning the scholarship, see house arrest, meaning that they couldn't Circle Campus, Dupage College and arship award is $25,000. For more in the Veteran's Administration at 536 S. go out of a two-mile radius of their home. others was at an all-time summer high. If formation contact the Illinois State Clark or phone 663-5510. FBI agents entered their apartment to make sure the family got their belong ings together and were taken to the air port for a plane to Washington D.C. In A school born for stars Washington the Iranians from all states were put on a plane to Iran. Damage to suburban schools due to During this time Mr. Matin contacted a vandalism is down. Officials think this is lawyer in hopes of applying for political because of new means of discipline, in asylum because his wife was undergo cluding student and parent counseling. ing medical treatment in this country Vandalism is a city offense and involves which she would be unable to receive in Future artists, dancers, composers, charges such as breaking and entering Iran. Political asylum was not granted so and rising stars now have a high school and disorderly conduct. The fine for the the Malin family was sent back to Iran. of their own in Chicago: The Academy, defacement of property can run as high Fame In Iran they were questioned and at 718 W. Adams. The Academy will as $50. finally released. Today Sina and his open this month as a four-year high ••• their enrollment to 37 percent by 1984. family are livlng with friends in Italy. Sina school for performing and visual arts, but Hispanic students in Chicago public ••• and his family hope that when the hos with enough academic subjects to meet schools will outnumber white students Editor's Comment: A Student Advisory tage situation is resolved they will be state graduation requirements. Tuition is for the first time this year. Black students Council to the Board of Education is able to return to the U.S., where Sina $3,000, but scholarships are available. lead enrollment figures with 60.9 per being established to give student input wishes to continue his education. Applicants must be auditioned by a cent of the total enrollment. Hispanic into the school system. NE supports the Denise Bronson panel of four experts. figures are expected to double, bringing idea. (For more info see page 9.) 2 N~ EXP~ESSION •. ' ' I ... 'NE survey poses the question: ~~.~.!:!......... ! .. ~e Army attract youth? ~~JNA]IQNISTATii Carter this new draft is neces- :i:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::i:::::::::::::::::::::::::i:::::::::::::::::::::::::::i-:·:·:=: sary because the Voluntary Begmning in January, 1981 , Army isn't working. all teen males will be expected Why aren't teens joining the to make a trip to the post office military? In order to find out, on their eighteenth birthday. New Expression surveyed They will be required to register 225 teens (men and women) in for the military. Most of them Chicago and the suburbs who can barely remember when the have never been in the military last draft ended in 1973. to see what teens thmk about According to President military life. What do teens like about the military? Specialized education is benefits. the only aspect of military life The women surveyed were that both male and female just a little less enthusiastic teens seem to like. than the men: 73 percent like Craig Carrington, a senior at the military for its education South Shore, plans to go to benefits. Darlene Roberts Photo by Patrick Hunt college, but he said, "If I have thinks she'd like to study com to enlist, I might as well get puter science, "And I think the Females 110 (14-19) Males 115 (14-19) some money and a free edu military would give me a good Favorable Unfavorable No Opinion Favorable Unfavorable No Opinion cation at the same time. It's like education and background m Combat 13 83 14 20 80 15 killing two birds with one computer science. But I would Uniform 28 70 12 58 57 2 stone." In the NE survey, 95 expect that benefit if I give up Discipline 27 68 15 40 63 12 percent of the males felt posit four years of my life." Salary 30 66 14 65 30 20 Ove~seas 24 61 25 70 ive about the army's education 27 11 Education 73 23 14 95 17 3 Training 65 30 15 43 59 13 What do teens dislike Obeying Officers 58 31 15 29 69 17 Skills 34 43 33 40 53 22 Enlisting 36 65 9 25 72 18 about the military? Soc.