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MBN I February 1988 Volume 12 No.2 INSIDE Teen Truancy Chicago Police step in to help Board of Educa­ tion control class cutting. See Page 7

Abused Teens Reporter Sonya Young talks to teens who have been abused by their parents and tells how they can get help. See Page 8. Leather Jackets Become a Right of Teen Press Principals, teachers and students repsond New Target for Street Crime. to Supreme Court ruling to restrict the student press. See Page 10. Photo by George Marraquin Managing Editor: Roberta Eng­ Few Options for Parent Dropouts 1 lish, Von Steuben Assistant Managing Editor: By Lenise Hightower I "The key is motivation," said are required to bring their social this issue." Leslie Casimir, Von Steuben Membra Bethea, discussing security number, the expected "There are places that offer day Special Assignments Editor: There are many factors in­ what it takes to keep a teen par­ date of their baby's birth, and in­ care," said Devon, "but they have Adolfo Mendez, Kelvyn Park volved with a student deciding to ent in high school. Bethea is a come information. a waiting list a mile long. City Editor: Sonya Young, Senn leave school. Some students are social worker who counsels stu­ The Tesla school has two loca­ "It costs about $3000 dollars a Editorial Director: Smita Lahiri, driven out of school by low self­ dents at several North Side high tions. The South Side branch is year for day care, and families Whitney Young esteem, some by family prob­ schools. at 6657 S. Kimbark (31 2) 947- that can't afford it usually rely on School Affairs Editor: Sonia lems and others by economic Orfield, Kenwood pressures. But some of these Entertainment Editor: David "dropouts" have an obligation Ratzlow, Whitney Young they feel is greater than an edu­ "When your main job is to be a Newsbriefs Editor: Nancy cation. Johnson, St. Ignatius When teenagers become par­ Health/Sexuality Editor: Len-· ents it is often diff icult for them to full-time student and you take on ise Hightower, Metropolitan locate people to take care of their College/Careers: Cassandra children while they are still in high Chew, Lindblom school. These teenagers are of­ another heavy job, then you're Young Chicago Editor: Scott ten forced to quit school to rai se Spilky, Von Steuben their child. Cable Television Coordinat­ Unlike many other major cities doing double duty. Mothering is a ing Producer: Karriema Tho­ like Washington, D.C., Chicago mas, Metropolitan has done little to address this Advertising Manager: Latonya problem. Experts in the field of full-time job. " Shelly, Flower. child care had a hard time nam­ Graphics Director: Lorraine ing even one public organization Reyes, Von Steuben "When your main job is to be a 5080, and the North Side branch a family member to take care of that provides day care for par­ Assistant Graphics Director: full-time student and you take on is located at 721 N. LaSalle (312) the child." ents who are still in high school. Phat Chung, Von Steuben another heavy job, then you're 337-3050. Families often say that they Unfortunately having such a Office Manager/Data Proces­ doing double duty. Mothering is a John dropped out of school at want their child to stay in school, heavy responsibility such as tak­ sor: Sharon Dickens full-time job." 16 and is a father for the second but then do little practically to ing care of a baby has put many Circulation Manager: Henry Three Chicago Public high time at age 17. assure that that can happen, teenage mothers as well as fa­ King, Westinghouse schools, Du Sable, Orr, and "Sometimes I hate having to according to Bethea. thers under a lot of pressure. Staff Writers: Samuel Beckless, Crane, have medical clinics work so hard and then go out and She said it was her challenge to Celeste is a 17 year old who is Phillips; Kathey Beverly, Ken­ available to their students. A rep­ spend all of my money on Pam­ see that families actually do the painfully familiar with that kind of wood; Barry Davidson, Ken­ resentative from Du Sable high pers and stuff for the baby, but things they say they will do to pressure. She dropped out of wood; Adrienne Foley, Jones; school's medical clinic said that I've finally realized that this baby keep a teen parent in school. high school in her junior year to Bridget Galvin, Whitney Young; the school does not offer any is my responsibility too. take care of her child. Meola Ivy, Senn; RishaJamison, type of day care services, how­ "I want to go back to school and Celeste was very defensive Whitney Young; Vecia Madden, ever. get at least my high school di­ about her situation. "I don't feel Lindblom; Alison McKenzie, A representative from Orr's ploma because it's hard enough "Straight Talk" is a New Ex­ that I was too young todropoutof Whitney Young; Antonio Sharp, medical clinic at (312) 638-5454, to support myself without sup­ pression feature designed to school or to have my baby," she Hyde Park; Cynthia Smith, said that they only offer day care porting two kids." answer the real questions you said. She said she can go back to Jones; Ethan Stoller, Whitney referrals. Crane is just starting up Laura Devon, spokesperson for have about sex, health, or just school any time she wants. Young ; KimberlEy Ward, Julian; therr program. the Ounce of Prevention Pro­ about yourself. "When I dropped out I was a Aaron Washington, Kenwood. Dr. Evelyn Green, princpal of gram, a state funded effort to If you have any questions for junior and I feel a junior is just as Photo Manager: Alex Chaparro, the Nikola Tesla Alternative Hig h prevent teen pregnancies, said, "Straight Talk," or even just some rmportant as a senior. I don't Amundsen. School for girls, said th at in order "Day care is a big problem, not ideas, or comments for our need a high school diploma to Photo Production Assistant: to be enrolled in this school you just for teenagers but for every­ "Health and Sexuality" page, take care of my family." Dora Guajardo, Wells. have to attend either a public, pri­ one, and we need to make the send them to New Expression Although Celeste is staying at Advertising Staff: Freida vate, or Catholic high school and, public aware of teen pregnancy. c/o Lenise Hightower, 207 S. home with her parents she says Johnson, Jones; Julie Price, of course, be pregnant. "We need to ask the presiden­ Wabash, Chicago, IL. 60604. that her mother doesn't help sup­ Prosser; Latonya Shelly, Flower. Students are interviewed and tial candidates how they stand on port her or her baby Graphics Staff: Lanetta Fox, Simeon; Lawanda Fox, Simeon; Dave Vegil, Senn. Photography Staff: George Marroquin, Kelvyn Park; Bennie McDonald, Carver; Cindy Ruiz, St. Gregory. Business Staff: Tessie Bryant, Westinghouse. Copy Manager: Paul Pinkston, Whitney Young. Asian Studen Clash on North Side Cable Television Staff: Shan­ nel Allen, Morgan Park; Alison By Karen Davidson wished to remain , .,ymous, of other school fights and vio­ and those of American young Anderson, Kenwood; Jeff Auer, said that as the teena• ~ rs get lence between the two groups, people who tend to let things rest Von Steuben; Kimberly Brown, Ongoing tensions between Vi- older and more mature t y tend Carson cancelled the Filipino after a fight. Morgan Park; Janeen Catledge, etnamese and Filipino communi- to get along better, jo11 each dance. Walsh said that the problem Kenwood; Monique Childs, ties on th e North Side have led to other's clubs, and make fr1... 1ds St udents involved in the fig ht­ has deep local historical roots Jones; Barry Davidson, Ken­ some violent incidents at Lane with one another. But, she said, ing are intelligent, have good and would not be easily resolved. wood; Toya Mitchell, Morgan Tech, Amundsen, Mather, and every year the new freshmen grades and are not the type you Quang Van, a youth specialist Park; Franshon Reynolds, Mor­ other North Side high schools, and sophomores want to take up see in th e discipline office, ac­ at the Vietnamese Community gan Park; Nalo Thomas, Whit­ but school officials say the most old fights and the whole cycle cording to Carson. She said such Service Center, said that the ney Young; Amilia Whither­ spoon, Morgan Park. recent wave of violence died begins again. No one New Ex- seemingly uncharacteristic be­ young 13eople are not necessar­ down in late December. The pression spoke with was able to havior was hard to understand. ily involved in organized gangs, New Expression is published once matter remains of concern to explain precisely wh at was the Carson's perceptions were but simply have grudges against school officials, however, who root of the tension between the a month except June through Augu st shared by Noreen Walsh, Lane's one another and are constantly and December by Youth Communi­ are even worried that New two national groups. and Amundsen's social worker. trying to get even. Van said he cation/Chicago Center, a not-for­ Expression's coverage of the In November a clash at Lane Walsh said Filipino and Vietnam­ does not understand why the profit agency. New Expression is a story would start r:10re trouble resulted in a Vietnamese student ese students have an honor code violence began. He called it a member of the Youth News Service. Editorial offices are at 207 S. between the warring factions. from Lane being severely beaten that is not only seen in their "macho thing" between the two Wabash (8th floor), Chicago, IL Filpino and Vietnamese stu - with lead pipes. The student had grades, but also in their every groups. 60604. Phone. 663-0543. dents have both said that-neither to be taken to the hospital for his day life. Since November, there have of th e groups as a whole are injuries. The fact that students Both Walsh and Carson agree not been any major fights on high To secure a subscription through predjudiced against the other, from other area high schools that maintaining their "honor" is a school campuses, according to the mail, send $7 for one-year (eight issues) to : Circulation Dept., New but that there are just a few of came to participate in the fig ht strong tradition between these school officials. Expression, 207 S. Wabash, Chi­ each that have "grudges" against indicated that thi" was not a young people. They said the stu­ "It has been relatively quiet," cago 60604. Provide name·, address one other. Students say that minor scuffle bet '1 a few stu- dents seem caught between the said Carson. "We hope it will stay and zip code. when friends jom in to help re- dents, but rail• , · II organized old ways of their national back­ that way, but I doubt the prob­ solve those grudges the confron- and planned, d<' rdi ng to Lane grounds-where it is taught th at lems have been solved or will be Copyright 1988 by Youth l ations can escalate. Principal Maud Carson. when one is injured by a person in the near future." Communication/Chicago Center. A Filipino junior at Lane, who A few weeks later, after hearing or group it is right to retaliate- (Continued on Page 4) FJINew Expression FEBRUARY, 1988 Cover Story · Teens Risk it All for Leather Jackets

By Leslie Casimir Crime Analysis Unit. mer on the jackets. rival) got on the bus. youth approaching him and tell­ New Expression's investiga­ Morton knows six other young Bates said the group went to the ing him to get out of the store When 17-year-old Kevin tion indicates, however, that males who have had their jackets rear of the bus so he didn't pay from another door. Before he Moody was robbed of his Christ­ many leather jacket thefts are stolen. Not one reported the attention to them. But when he followed the advice, he realized mas gift-a $170 leather unreported to police. thefts to police. was ready to get off the bus to that the youth was with the jacket-and fatally stabbed in an Gene Miller, (not his real name) Tidnarsh said that there have catch the Jackson Park "EI," a Englewood students. A lady alley on the South Side, many an 18-year-old Lindblom stl,l­ been cases of stolen leather couple of young males grabbed overheard the conversation and young adults weren't worried dent, got his leather jacket stolen jackets before. But now that the him from behind and told him that offered him a ride to the train about getting their jackets taken when he left it in a friend's car Kevin Moody case has aroused he "wasn't going anywhere." station. off their backs. And, according to before going to a party. "I didn't the media's attention, many po­ "I really didn't think (I would get "That's what saved me," he several male students inter­ think anyone would look into that lice wonder if the same trend is jumped for my jacket)," he said. said. viewed by New Expression, car because it was so bad look­ going to happen as in Newark. Bates has had the same bomber Bates didn't report the incident they still don't seem to be worried ing," he said. "I was so mad." "We will have more incidents jacket for over a year and was to his school or police. "They now. Miller owned a black leather than before because someone never threatened because of it wouldn't believe you unless you before. had proof like a scar or some­ Bates got off the bus and thing," he said. headed into the closest store F. Horton, assistant principal at which was a Walgreens. The South Shore High School, hasn't group got off the bus and heard of any thefts that involved chanted, "Yeah we're going to leather jackets at his school. "We get you !" and followed him to the have normal locker break-ins," drugstore's entrance. he said. "I was scared. I stayed in the Horton hasn't heard of any store for over 30 minutes. And tacked forof his students being at they waited." Bates recalls one (Continued on Page 4) JACKETS • SWEATERS • EMBLEMS • ALL SCHOOLS • Made the Way You Want Them All Styles • V-Cuts

Photo by Alex Chaparro Hoods • Belts • Special Designs In January of 1987 in Newark, jacket that cost $215, but did not New Jersey, there were over 52 notify police about it's theft. "It who didn't (steal jackets before) COME TO OUR FACTORY OR PHONE US FOR will think about doing it now," Tid­ jacket robberies. A 15 year old just wouldn't have helped." FREE DESIGN KIT ~ boy was killed during one of David Morton, a 17 -year-old narsh said. those robberies, and two teens senior at Leo High School, said "It will become a trend." • Cheer & Pep Club Outfits were shot and wounded. One of he'd fight to defend his two John Bates, (not his real name) 1 • Skirts-Sweaters-Jackets Q~ i those teens was the son of leather jackets wh ich cost $200 from Lindblom, owns a brown Newark's mayor, according to each. "To get your jacket stolen "bomber" jacket that cost him • Porn Poms-Booster Buttons Sergeant Ernest Newby of that is kind of humiliating," he said. $165. He had a very frightening New Jersey city's Police Depart­ "My mom feels that I shouldn't experience at the beginning of ... ~. ment. wear them out in the street be­ the school year. Bates was head­ CHICAGO KNITTING MILLS In January of 1988 in Chicago cause she knows that I won't just ing downtown after school on the less than 10 leather jackets were give them up (if attacked)." 63rd Street bus when 15 young 3344 W. Montrose 463-1464 reported stolen, according to ·Morton spent $300 of his own males he said were from Engle­ Sergeant Tim Tidnarsh of the money earned during the sum- wood high school (Lindblom's

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New Expression FEBRUARY, 1988 0 Inside Track · ·· I Local Teen Cocaine Use Rises general trend of young aduhs in "crack" has been "creeping up" By Risha Jamison Maryland's Len Bias in 1986. leading. "Cocaine is yet to reach particularly in the past six to nine This caused a drastic change in it's peak. People's memories Chicago is up (for cocaine use). This is especially true for the months, but that the use of co­ The use of cocaine in Illinois the views of teenagers, as they (regarding the deaths of the Cook County area." She bases caine may be leveling off as a and Chicago among teenagers begin to realize the often fatal sports figures) are short. her assessme~ on the in­ result of drug prevention pro­ is escalating, even though na­ consequences of even experi­ "At the time it was very effective creased number of cocaine re­ grams, combined with law en­ tionally there appears to be a mental cocaine use. in reducing the amount of drugs lated arrests and hospital emer­ forcement. downward trend. John Bailey, a counselor with taken, but it is now rising. Co­ gencies, as well as the increase In Illinois, an estimated 2,400 Many experts have attributed Intervention (a local drug reha­ caine is a very popular drug." in the rate of admission into drug 12-14 year-olds are addicted to the downward shift to the deaths bilitation center) who works spe­ Linda Hartnart of the Illinois cocaine. The average age of a of the Cleveland Browns' Don cifically with teenagers, feels that Department of Alcoholism and treatment centers. teenager trying marijuana for the Rodgers and the University of this positive viewpoint is mis" Substance Abuse says, "The Hartnart also says the use of first time is just over 13, and just over 12 for alcohol. Statistics from the Univerisity of Michigan show a sharp decline in Social Clubs Banned at Julian the use of cocaine among high school seniors on a national level for the past year. By Kimberley Ward cautious support of social clubs. will be 'underground,'" said Bev­ head by bottles thrown, students This study surveyed 16,000 Shortly after that article was erly, a senior. allege, by social club members. seniors in 130 public and private In a brief message of the published, however, Oliver or­ "I don't think that people will One Julian Club, J.C. (Just Con­ schools and 2,400 other young school's public addresss sys­ dered the ban in re spon se to two discontinue participation in so­ ceit) has long been the focus of adults. Over 10 percent of the tem, Dr. Edward H. Oliver, princi­ violent incidents at his school. cial clubs because of what Dr. the animosity of other clubs. students surveyed used cocaine pal at Julian High School, fol­ "Most social clubs here have a Oliver stated." Breian Collier, a junior and a at least once in the past year as lowed the examples of principals member of J.C., acknowledged opposed to 12.7 percent in 1986. at Whitney Young and Lindblom that her club members are often This represents a 20 percent de­ high schools, and shot down the /(Most social clubs here have a {law in conflict with other social clubs, crease-the biggest in 8 years. social clubs which had become a of the jungle' attitude. They are with-· but said J.C. members at­ It further showed that the per­ tradition at the school. tempted to avoid fighting. centage of teenagers using alco­ "Clubs can exist only if they are out a serious purpose or goal." "I don't think that Dr. Oliver's hol has been increasing for the school affiliated," said Oliver. -Principal Edward Oliver crackdown will stick," she said. past three years. Marijuana and "They may exist on this campus "He tried to outlaw social clubs "crack," the smokeable form of with the approval of the princi­ 'law of the jungle' attitude," said Oliver's crackdown was earlier in the year, but it didn't cocaine, also have not shown pal." Oliver. "They are without a seri­ sparked by a number of recent hold. similar decreases. Oliver said clubs will only be ous purpose or goal." violent disturbances. "I think he'll wait until all of the Opinions on the drug problem approved if they have a written Some students don't think that One incident took place on rowdiness dies down, and then vary from city to city, but experts statement of purpose, a current Oliver's statement will hold water January 11, when a member of the clubs will be back in full agree that the use of alcohol is roster of members and a calen­ in the long run. Others think that one club pulled a knife on two force." the fastest rising drug abuse, and dar of activities. what he said will stick. "I think that members of another club. it continues to be the number one In last month's New Expres­ some of the clubs that are based Another incident occurred killer of teenagers in America. sion Oliver had expressed a at Julian will continue, only they when two girls were hit in the

Leather Jackets (Continued from Page 3) "It happens now and it hap­ they're going to have to kill me. being attacked while waiting for assistant manager (name with­ their jackets. "Whatever hap­ pened in the past." Ahern said "When you're being confronted, the Irving Park bus with his girl­ held at her request.) pens after school is up to the po­ that his security usually resolves you don't think about yourself friend. He owns a "flight" jacket. "More and more young aduhs lice," he said. the problem. because anyway it goes they're Two young males were staring at are into fashion jackets," she Dr. James Ahern, principal at John Bates still wears his jacket going to get you ," Bates said, him from across the street. said. The jackets that are sold Bowen High School, said a few everyday. "I'm willing to take that describing an attitude which may They began pointing at him, but the most are black leather jack­ incidents have occurred at his risk," he said, "because it hap­ be dangerously typical of many he said he didn't pay much atten­ ets that range from $199to $249. school. "We do have them oc­ pens everywhere. other students. tion to them. The two disap­ She said she has noticed a defi­ cassionally, but we don't have an "I paid my money for it and, if Eddie Ontiveros, a 16-year-old peared, then reappeared on dif­ nite increase in teen theft at epidemic on jackets being sto­ they're going to take it from me junior at Von Steuben, recalls ferent corners. Bermans. len. One grabbed Ontiveros from Lindblom's Miller feh badly the back, and the otherfaced him about Kevin Moody's death. "He and demanded his jacket. "Hell was thinking like I would bethink­ no!" he said. ing," he said. At ALL-CITY MEETING "There was no way that I was But he dbes't think about get­ Are you interested going to take off my jacket." His ting killed. "I don't take that into Roosevelt parents helped him pay for his consideration," he said. "I in becoming a re­ $200 jacket and the thought of worked hard for (my jacket), and going home cold and having to I would more than likely fight for it University... porter or reviewer for face his parents was unaccept­ too." New Expression? able, he said. "I like my jacket a Sergeant Rutherford Wilson of You can live at hon1c, lot. I knew that I would never be the area two homicide unit said Then be sure to at­ able to get another one if I gave it that the only precautions a per­ work and still have tend the All-City up." son can take when confronted is His girlfriend was pushed aside just to give the jacket up. "You tin1e for college, be­ meeting on Wednes­ cause we're conve­ and began to scream. That's can always get another jacket, day, February 24 at when th e two youths stopped but just make sure that you ob­ niently located in trying to pull his jacket off him. "I serve the person well so that you 4:00. New Expres­ downtown Chicago. didn't even tell my parents about can give a good description of sion is located at 207 it until a couple of weeks later. him," he said. "When my mother found out, People wearing "Troop" jackets Roosevelt offers S. Wabash on the 8th she wanted to take the jacket may have to be especially care­ floor. from me, but I refused to give it ful. According to Lindblom's majors in business .. . up," he said. "My girlfriend even Bates, some gangs are now us­ liberal arts ... educa­ If you are unable to gave me a regular jacket for ing the color bands on the Christmas." But, Ontiveros says patches of "Troop" jackets to tion ... music. attend but are still in­ he wears his flight jacket when­ represent their gang "colors." terested in JOmmg ever he feels like it. Gene Miller said that he'd give For further information, the staff, contact Less violent jacket thefts occur up his jacket if he was held up at call 341-2000 or visit us at at leather shops. In the gunpoint. "That's the only way." Robe11a Engli sh at Evergreen Mall in Evergreen So far Miller has only lost a 430 S. Michigan Avenue. Park, Bermans, the "leather leather jacket to a simple car 663-0543. experts" store, largely caters to theft. He plans to replace the young adults, according to it's leather jacket that was stolen.

0New Expression FEBRUARY, 1988 Student Volunteers Learn to Work

By Cassandra Chew Donnelly Youth Center, said, medicine is re ally like. Volunteering may even help a "There are many places to look. "There's not much work to do, teen discover a career. All agencies welcome teen vol- but I am getting exposure to the Darry l Doss, 19, worked on the The girl had fallen off of a build­ pressure situation in a hospital, n com mitte of Youth and M il~a­ ing and landed on the sidewalk. he said. rism, at American Friends Serv­ She had a cut on her forehead, ice Committee. That committee her leg looked broken, and her studies hazards and dangers of hand was cut. They had to help military build up. He says that her. volunteering there has helped She was unconscious so they him to narrow down his career could not ask her what was goals so that he now plans to wrong. They quickly got a blan­ work in the government on the ket and slid it under her. Then Commission of Foreign Rela­ they touched her carefully to try tions. to find out what was wrong with Some of the employers inter­ her. They bandaged her hand, viewed by New Expression look arms and head. Th en they put at volunteer work on a resume two boards on her leg to see if her the same way they look at paid neck was broken and kept her work. calm until the paramedics came. "Any experience a person can This was not a re al accident get is positive," says John Chale­ scene. It was one of the training kian, a Personell Manager at sessions which the American Budget-Rent-A-Car. Red Cross Youth Council partici­ According to Susie Jones, a pates in regularly. The teen manager at AT&T, "Experience Courtesy Am_ Red Cross youth council volunteer their time any soc1a· 1 serv1ce· groups, unl·- "Somet,·mes the res!"dents take is experience." "It does not matter whether you to Red Cross to learn emergency versl·t,·es, and park di.strl·cts. t.1me to exp Ia ·1n th.1ngs t o me, b u t is involved in the Coco Club were paid or not." response skills. Sandra H·1nely who wo rks for everyone ' s b usy; th e nu rses are which is made up of teens who According to Sharice Randall, the Cook County Youth Services on a tight schedule and you just form peace committees. But, Laird Brownly, a proof­ 16, a member of the Youth Coun- Department said, "It varies. So have to watch and try not to inter- According to the Cook County reader at ASAP Word process­ cil, they also learn about first aid, many agencies have different at- fere," he said. survey, other reasons why so ing, said that "volunteering on a hold food drives, help the needy, titudesaboutwhatteenscan do." "I'm thinking of becoming a psy- many teens were interested in resume gives an indication of and participate in emergency re- "A lot of adults may feel that it chiatrist," said Jeanine Holmes, volunteering were to improve what type of person you are. It sponse competitions with other may be too much trouble." 16, who answers questions on self esteem, caring about others tells their company that you have Red Cross Youth Council. "If a teen is not easily discour- the Planned Parenthood hotline, and community pride. outside interests that you are Randall started volunteering at aged he'll probably find a volu n- "By working there I am learning "It's fun, and I'm learning how to committed to." Red Cross at age 15, when a teer position that he likes," she how to talk to people." really help someone hurt in an He also said that if their com­ friend invited her to one of the said. Holmes said that she has to accident.", said Randall of the pany was chasing between two Council's meetings. She's been Hinely is cu rrently involved in work on the hotlinetwice a month Red Cross Youth Council. people with identical training and actively involved in it ever since. preparing a guide that can help for only four hours. She also said Although many of the teens in­ experience, for a job, they would Randall is not alone in her inter- teens find positions. that she didn't have any real terviewed by New Expression choose the volunteer. est in volunteering. According to One of the main advantages problems with working on the had paid jobs or were looking for One other thing that teens a recent study conducted by the teens get from volunteering is hotline because she had good them, they had very positive feel­ should remember is th at volun­ Cook County Sheriff's Youth experience and trai(ling. training at an orientation fo r the ings about volunteering. teering allows them to get in­ Department, almost 75 percent "I feel that they are doing me volunteers. In addition to volunteering at the volved in what interests them. of the teens they interviewed more of a favor than I am doing Among other topics, Holmes hospital, Tan works as a clerk Some teens may have the im­ were willing to volunteer, how- them," says 19 year old Mark was trained to give persons who filing insurance claims. "Even age of voluntee ring as being ever, only 26 percent of those Tan. call in accurate information on though I work, I try to devote as stuck in a room with 1 000 enve­ teens were currently volunteers. Tan is a pre-med student at topics dealing with pregnancy, much time as I can to volunteer­ lopes to stamp and address and According to Irene Jackson, 16• Northwestern who works as an birth control and sexually trans- ing at the hospital," he said. seal, but th at is not always true. who works with children at the aide in the Orthepedlcs Surgery mitted diseases. According to Leslie Bryster, a According to David Giles, who Curiosity Plays in the Museum of Department at Northwestern Ayanna Gray, 15, who volun- supervisor at American Friends is in the process of creating a Science and Industry, she had Memorial Hospital. leers at American Friends Serv- Service Committee, "Volunteer­ youth volunteer prosram for always wanted to volunteer but Some of his duties include help- ice Committe, an organization ing instill s responsibility in teens Suburban United Way, a teen she could never find places ing the nurses prepare for which is involved in peace work, becau se the agency depends on should know what he wants to get involved in. The volunteer where teens cou ld volunteer until opera1 1ons.- Hea 1s oge1 s 1ow a tc h sa!·d she has learned how to th em." "Talking on the phone has the responsibility and the she saw the Guide to Volunteer- some of the operations. operate a word processor, and with others is a real challenge ing in New Expression's 1986 Tan wanted to volunteer be- can relate to people better. because it is my responsibility to rig ht to say what he does and Nov./Dec. issue. cause he felt that he would be Because of her volunteer work give the people who call in the doesn't want to get involved in. Cynthia Woods, volunteer pro- getting a first hand idea of what she said that she right information," said Jeanine 1 Holmes. ___g_ra_m __ c_o_o_rd_ i_na_t_o_r _a_t_t_h_e_E_I_Io_it_____1if_ e_in__ a_ h_o_s~p_ita_l_a_n_d_a__ c_a _re_e_r~in .-•b•e~tt~e~r~u~n d~e•r~s-ta~n•d•i~~~---.

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By Bridget Galvin days a week in the second High school seniors will only be RettJrns semester and three days a week considered if space is available, By Nancy Johnson If you are a high school student in the second year. said Briscoe, adding that there is interested in a heahh field occu­ After successful completion of an adult program offered for high "Eyes on the Prize," six one­ pation, the Chicago Public the two year program, students school graduates, or GED certrti­ hour television programs that Schools has a program in practi­ are then eligible to take the state cate recipients with similiar cur­ chronicle the human stories of cal nursing that may be for you. licensing examination to become riculum. This program is also America's Civil Rights years The Practical Nursing Program a licensed practical nurse, work­ complete preparation for the from 1954 to 1965, encored on is a two year program in which ing in a hospital, nursing center, state licensing exam. Full time PBS, Monday, January 25, 1988 students are involved in class­ or other health care facility. Ac­ and part-time classes are avail­ at 9 pm. The fourth episode of the room and actual hospital experi­ cording to Nancy Briscoe, asso­ able. series will air Monday, February ence training. The program is ciate coordinator of the high The expenses for the high 15, at 9 pm. Reruns will air on during school hours and each school program, students make school program are approxi­ Tuesday afternoons. successful year completed wages starting at $7.95 per hour mately $145 for fees, supplies Named "Program of the Year" counts for two credits as an elec­ after passing the exam, making and uniforms. Additional ex­ by the Television Critics Asso­ tive major. Students attend dur­ this an excellent employment penses include $45 for work­ ciation, "Eyes on the Prize" pres­ ing their junior and senior years opportunity for after high school books. No financial aid is avail­ ents behind-the-scenes insights Prize" has become a mainstay in for approximately 20 weeks of and during college. able for the high school program, into major Civil Rights events classrooms. One of its primary the school year, according to the High school sophomores and but the adult program is on a such as the Montgomery bus goals is to teach young people program guide. juniors may take the pre-test sliding scale up to the third week boycott, the March on Washing­ about the years when thousands From a list of community hospi­ from September to April, but of enrollment. ton, and the march from Selma to of men, women and children­ tals, the student is assigned to must be 16 years old by October Those interested can contact Montgomery. The series focuses black and white-struggled in one nearest their school. During 1 of their junior year to be eligible. their high school counselor, or on the stories of key participants the South and in the North to rid the first semester the student You also must have nine and a write: in this social movement like America of racial injustices. participates in classroom activity half credits upon completion of The Practical Nursing Program Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew The six films that make up the for four days a week and hospital sophomore year and have ac­ 1628 W. Washingtom Blvd. Young, James Forman, Mose series present the hopes, clinical experience one day a ceptable scores on the pre-en­ Room 2624 Right and Rosa Parks. dreams, and struggles of people week. trance reading and vocabulary Chicago, Illinois 60612 Since its original broadcast in who wanted to make America The number of actual hospital test administered by the Practi­ The programs office can be January, 1987, "Eyes on the free for all people. training days increases to two cal Nursing Program. reached at 942-8894. Sheriff's Dept. Offers A $20 Million Geography Lesson

Scholarship By Vecla Madden work, started in 1985 with 22 al­ please?" Many of the teachers liances in 20 states and in Wash­ are good, but the problem is By Nancy Johnson 2. "Do you think all young In honor of its 1OOth birthday the ington, D.C. Every year in July some have never taken courses people, both men and National Geographic Society the Alliance, headed by a geog­ in geography," said Moffet. Cook County Sheriff James E. women, should be required gave the nation a $20 million gift rapher, sends a teacher to its The society hopes it can raise O'Grady announced that 15 to per form some form of to finance geography studies. headquarters in Washington to an equal amount in outside con­ $500 scholarships will be service, either military or The gift was prompted by com­ learn how to teach geography tributions-philanthropic institu­ awarded to county residents. national service, to their plaints from teachers about stu­ better. . tions and businesses-to set up Eligible recipients must be full country?" . dents' ignorance concerning One 1Oth grader said, " I know a teaching center in each partici­ time undergraduate students 3. "What is the most important geography. this is a lot too late to be telling pating state. who are enrolled in colleges, lesson parents can teach The money will go t9ward a you, but I know nothing about New Expression took an infor­ universities, or vocational their children?" foundation to better geography maps. I mean absolutely noth­ mal survey of 20 high school stu­ schools in Illinois. The deadline for applications is education. "The society feels this ing, not one thing. dents and found that although all Scholarships will be awarded to March 1, 1988. Interested indi­ is important because geography "I don't know where the U.S. or of the students knew that Illinois' students based on ability, merit, viduals should consult their is integral to our ability to under­ California is located. I don't know capital city was Springfield, only character and sincerity of pur­ school administrator, counselor, stand the world," said Barbara the difference between coun­ two knew where it could be'found pose in his or her goal. In addition or Fran Leske at the Cook Moffet, a society spokesperson. tries, cities, towns, or states. Can in the state. to completing an application, en­ County Sheriff's Youth Services The foundation, Alliance Net- I have a little of your help trants will be asked to write a brief Department, 1401 S. Maybrook essay on one of the following Drive, Maywood, II 60153 quP.stions: (Phone: 865-2900}. Award re­ IRS Gives Parents a Break 1. "What is the biggest prob­ cipients for the academic year lem or concern facing young 1988-1989 will be selected on people today?" May 1, 1988. By Michelle Porter numbers. The law was enacted ceived by the Social Security to help IRS auditors. Administration. It's that time for some of our Many times the auditors have to Th is influx is delaying the proc­ parents. The "tax man" is after make sure that people are essing of soc!al security applica­ them again. This year, however, truthful about the number of their tions. The normal process is five they will receive help from their child dependents. Therefore, working days, but because of the sometimes friend and some­ Mom and Dad cannot list Rover rush it may take as long as two DEPAUL times foe, the Internal Revenue and Fluffy as dependents on any weeks. U N I VE R S I TY Service. more tax returns. Parents can apply on behalf of The IRS said that enforcement The IRS insists that the law was their children using the following of a 1986 law requiring all de­ not made to hassle parents. forms of identification: birth cer­ pendents fiv~ and older to have a They say parents should already tificate, school records, report PROGRAMS social security number will be know that children are supposed cards, and medical records. The suspended th is year. to receive their social security Social Security Administration FOR CAREERS According to the Social Secu­ numbers by the time they are has a recorded message which Arts Accounting rity Administration, about 2.5 five. Since this law was publi­ explains the application process, Business Communications million children still do not have cized last year, about five million the number is 1-900-41 0-4636. Education Humanities the required social security new applications have been re - There is a charge for the call. Drama Computer Science Music Natural Sciences Nursing Social Sciences Pre-Law Pre-Medicine Dance Contest Announced By Meola Ivy from (Chicago)." sional dance company and the ------,Pl(·dw Send Information to 1 I Spietz said the dance festival high school student showcase I Name I If someone asked her what time represents all forms of dance, -~-- I will be a couple of the day's high­ Address I it was, Barbara Spietz would including modern, ballet, jazz, s.s. # I lights. The "big show" will be at I City, State, Zip _ I probably say it's dance time. musical comedy, African, im­ the Addison Trail High School, I School Currently A !tending I Spietz is the Publicity Director for provisational choreography and Addison, Illinois on May 14. -- I I the Illinois High School Dance much more. For more information about the C l a~s Rank of _ I I Festival and a dance teacher at Teacher and student dancers festival and to find out how to get Intended Major -I Leyden High School in North­ will be perform ing at the festival involved, students should write : Mail to: O ffice of Ad mi s~ i o n s DePa ul University I lake, IL. 25 F.. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, ll o0604 I trials in March. All Illinois high Barbara Spietz Spietz described the festival. schools are invited to send par­ West Leyden High School L------j "This IS an all· state festival, and ticipants. 1000 N. Wolf Road TELEPHONE FOR INFORMATION 341-8300 last year o•Jer 700 people at­ At the actual festival in May a Northlake, IL 60164 tended the festival, most of them special performance by a profes- I;INew Expression FEBRUARY, 1988 . . • • r ' .. .. • ~ . • - City.Cracks Down on Teen Truancy By Scott Spilky to do while they wait. One Julian junior, Jason Green, believes Side where there are a lot of gangs and "We don't have a lot of students waiting. the program will be a success. "It will be gang-bangers. Extra police should cut that The nex1 time you or your friends decide Sometimes we do. It depends on how well good, especially for schools on the South down," he said. to skip a class here or to take an extra Green said that steady class cutters are lunch period there, you might want to think having a bad influence on new students. twice about it. The Chicago Police Depart­ "Freshmen want to be 'live' and cool," he ment has begun a new program that will said. make it harder for students to "ditch" "They're easily influenced. A lot of them classes. see people cutting and they figure, 'Hey, I The program was formulated by Superin­ want to have fun and it won't matter if I m1ss tendent of Police Leroy Martin with the just one class.' help of the Board of Education in an effort "I'm all for this program. It's good for the to curb the high truancy rate in Chicago's people with the 'I don't care !' attitude. You Public High Schools and reduce crimes won't get an education if you don't stay in resulting from those students being out of school." school. Jack Sherman, principal of Roosevelt, is The Police Department's Youth Division another educator who supports the pro­ normally assigns about 100 truancy offi­ gram. "I hope it will force those students cers to cover the city's 65 public high who spend all their energies to figure out schools. With the advent of the program, ways to get out of class, to now begin to however, there will be a more focused direct some of their energies toward their patrol assigned to every high school dis­ scholastic endeavors." trict in the city. Sherman said, "II students become more A high school in each district will be concerned about what they have to face in designated as a drop-off center for police­ order to cut and the problems they will run man picking up truant students in that into, they might think twice about do1ng it in district. It won't matter if a student attends the first place." another school. They will still be proc­ Sherman said that the police vans dfJiiver essed at the drop-off center school. students periodically from about 9 am to Some students are upset by the new 12 pm at Roosevelt. Sherman said that the program. Julie Trytek, a junior at Von policemen in and around the school have Steuben said, "I feel it's {the program) not been disruptive to the school. really harsh, because you can't make a "Most of the students don't even know the young person go to school if they don't police are {picking up truant students and want to. bringing them to Roosevelt)." "If a person really wants to cut a class Sherman said the effort should uhimately they're going to do it re(lardless of any­ benefit students. "It's really for their own ~h ing . It's good they want to help kids stay protection. 1n school, but the whole thing is going to "If they're not in the street then they're in end up as another pointless program school learning, preparing for the future." associated with the Board {of Education). "It'll just waste the taxpayers money." Photo ByMarcelina Salgado Ettore DiVito, Commander of the Chi­ the police scout the area." cago Police Departments Youth Division Jeraldi emphasized that each school explained the process. He said that Pol ic~ may handle truant students in a different vans and squad cars will drive around a way. He said that most students would not district, checking into teen hang-outs such be brought back to their own schools. as game rooms, fast-food resturaunts and Jeraldi said that inconvenience should stores. prove an additonal discouragement to a cutters. Is Once identified, truant students will be herded into a van, "the truancy pad­ Jeraldi was supportive of the effort. "It dywagon," and carted off to the designated can be useful in spotlighting the idea {so drop-off school, )1e said. The students are students) realize something will be done if they are just outside walking around. computer then processed; their parents and schools are notified, and they are brought back to "This is a situation where they don't want their home schools. Parents may pick their to be caught in a trap in an unfamiliar area." child up at their schools. Joe Isadore, a senior at Steinmetz, found Later there will be conferences between the new program objectionable. "It's a parents and teachers, DiVito said. If suc­ waste of time," he said. "Cops could be all you cessive truancy occurs, suspension is the doing other things, like stopping real next step. crime. The program has been on a trial run sinr.e "They're not paid to be babysitters. They January 6 in two designated districts. The should be doing their jobs." Isadore said want that at Steinmetz it is more difficult to cut a ever drop-off centers have been Clemente and Roosevelt high schools in the 13th and class since students are required to wear 17th districts respectively. The program their school !.D.'s around their necks­ has been quite successful and will go city­ which include their schedules-at all times. · torun? wide, DiVito said. Computer training's one thing. "When we hit the hang-outs, we look for people that look like they should be in A few months of school, a year, and you've got a school," DiVito said, describing a typical job as a data entry clerk. At National College, we look patrol. at computers a little differently. "We're not out to hassle anybody. We're Wotnen Not as a means to an end. interested only in a youth's education. Graduates of our Computer Information Systems "It's {the program) going to help students. and Management program walk out with a hi~hly It'll also benefit the community. It will re ­ marketable, four-year B.A. degree. duce any crime activity by having more po­ Help your friends lice in the area." One that combines mastery of computers with a According to DiVito, at least one crime help themselves! strong business sense. High-tech communications was averted when police arrived to pick up with professional managerial experience. truant students at a school where a fight It's everything you need. was about to begin. So if you're looking to get into computers. you've DiVito said the new effort should discour­ Job Corps age class cutting. "A student will think, got a choice. someone cares if I'm in school or not You can run someone else's program. maybe today I should stay in school. ' The alternative Or you can run your own. "It's about time we show the students we are concerned about their well-being." for high school DiVito said the program has gathered 2R40 Sheridan. Evanston. IL 6020 1 much public support. drop outs over 17 256-677 1 Lou Jeraldi, assistant principal at Cle· 18 S. Mi c hi~a n Ave.. Ch1cago. IL 60603 mente, said that when students are 427-1562 • 427-5775 o21-9650 I 8 8 6 - I 9 8 6 \fJC\IV OI''N \4lt' )~JM tfUOJI brought back from the police vans to his .\"(E. un 11/m"t' \rhf){J/ \lllu.; 18811. 1~ un rulttt!d hll lht. \orth ( .·ntrd/ bv)( tatmn uf ( ollt cJl'\ ,mel "w houf, school they are g1ven "constructive" things und uclmtb c;uahfh:d !1/uch..Ti t.\ u·tthoul ft.'tJUtd trJ racL (1,/or .\t '· rdtqJml. humhrup llf nulumul ort·thm< fln:/111

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by Sonya Young for a long time, but it's just com­ someone comes to us for help, 528-7767. cal abuse went on for several ing to the forefront now. There we will never turn them away." "Along with physical abuse, years," he said. "I was afraid to "I'd always have a bruise hid­ are not enough beds to service According to lntrater, his there is always emotional say anything. den somewhere here and there," "My father and my stepfather said Lisa Belmont, 18-years-old. both hit me. They kept on saying Early in her relationship with her I was crazy and belonged in a stepfather, Belmont considered me ntal institution. The abuse his form of "disipline" no more might stop for a month and then excessive than other parents. it would start again." "Eventually.," she said, "he be­ "Students find it's very hard to came more abusive." get out of (an abusive) situation," "I really loved him when I was said Jeremiah Morgan, a social younger, but he got meaner and worker at Senn Hig h School. meaner. "They are caught in a sick family "One day he hit me in the chin system and their world becomes and left a bruise. When I saw the distorted. They try to adjust to a damage that was done to me I situation and hope things will called the po lice, had him ar­ change." Morgan's position at rested, and then I moved in with Senn is to help students who are my aunt." in these situations. Lisa's unfortunate experience Anthony Hall is 16 and a client is one that a growing number of at Neon Street. "My stepfather American teenagers have would come in drunk and started shared. In the Child Abuse and yelling," he said. "One time, I was Neglect Statistics 1986 Annual sitting on the sofa and watch!ng Report 9,150 teens age 14-17 TV. were r~ported victims of neglect "He turned it off and started call­ or abuse. ing me names. I told him, 'Don't According to the Sun-Times, start with me. Don't take it out on reports for all age groups went up the fam ily.' He smacked me and 30 percent in Il linois, the largest I smacked him back. At that time, increase in five years. This year, we were remodeling the living Illustration by Lawanna Fox reports of child abuse are ex­ all the youths who are being agency will "hold a teen's hand," room and he picked up a piece of pected to rise another 3.5 per­ abused." and take them through the legal abuse," said lntrater. "At the very stick, a two by four, and started cent from last year's high. Leon lntrater is a psychologist system when they are leaving an minimum, that young person is hitting me with it. "For every reported case, there with Neon Street, an agency of abusive environment. "It's very going to feel like he or she is one "He broke my nose, and my is at least one case that is not re­ Travelers and Immigrants Aid difficult," he admits, "but we try to inch tall. When you feel that mom stuck up for him. But I'd ported," added Jim Sury, director which works with homeless find room through the state sys­ lowly ... that will affect everything rather take the beating than allow of Emergency Services at the youth. He agreed with Sury tem, such as placing teens in else you do." my mother to take it. Transitional Living Program about the lack of space for foster and group homes." Neon Harry Smart, 15 years old, is a "Youth often feel guilty," _said (TLP\. "Abuse has been going on abused teens. But he said, "If Strec· ";"lA 'c; 24 hour hot line is client at TLP. "Mental and physi- (Continued on Next Page) ~I

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(Continued from Previous Page) not be good, like hate and anger. Neon Street's lntrater. "They feel I thought I could handle it myself, like they are doing something but that wasn't the case." wrong when they are not the "My mom and I never talked," ones who are responsible fort his said Anthony. "I talked with my terrible abuse. real father, but I didn't tell him "They need to talk to someone about my stepfather because he who will not be emotionaly ef­ would just get in an argument fected," said lntrater. "They also with my mother and take it to the need friends for support, but courts." friends also have emotional feel­ According to Sury of TLS, H a ings and can't be objective. They mother has to choose between need to talk to people who are the boyfriend/stepfather and the trained and experienced in work­ child, she will often choose the ing with serious emotional is­ stepfather. sues." "In some cases, they don't want "It is a problem for teens to find to be left unloved. The stepfather someone to confide in who will takes care of her physical and be sensitive to their needs," said emotional needs, and in the end, Sury. many youths run away." "I want to be able to help a kid," Many teens who run away end said Chris Dentamaro, a coun­ up on the streets. selor at Senn, "but if they don't "These yout hs develop a tough say anything, they are denying exterior in order to survive be­ that it's happening and denying cause the community does not help in the long run . They are allow them to be kids," said ln­ also denying themselves their trater. lives." "They don't let their emotions "What happened to me was that take over in order to survive. I kept it all inside and it got What's really frightening is that worse," continued Lisa. "I talked even though young people are to a psychiatrist, but I stopped acting as Heverything is fine they going because it was emotion­ are hurting a lot." ally draining. When I did go, "If a teen is in a terrible situation, though, it helped because you then by all means, they should have to get it all out so you know get out," concluded ~ury . "There where you stand. is a system out there to help "They pull out all your innermost them." feelings, even the ones that may

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New Expression FEBRUAR~ 1988 EJ Talk Back · · Court Move Creates Judicial Haze By Adolfo Mendez personal expression like religion, The skits done in the past by the administrators in the early there isn't any legal basis for high speech, the press, or demon­ Wells Drama Club try in an 1970's to ban the distribution of school principals to demand Chicago Public High School strating or petitioning for social or amusing way to get to the '1ruth" an underground paper (The prior review of unofficial school students and principals are at political change. about school life, according to Cosmic Frog) which discussed newspapers, or ban their distri­ opposite ends on how much Some students feel the Su­ Drama member Omayra Rivera, social and political issues. butions on the school campus. impact, if any, the Supreme preme Court is saying that this a junior. "I'm pretty sure he'll The court ruled that the publica­ "I don't fear (the latest court) Court ruling that allows princi­ amendment doesn't apply to agree with (the skits planned for tion could not be banned unless ruling," Arthur J. Mrumlinsky, an pals to certsor "student expres­ students while they're in high April)," she said. it could be proved to cause a English teacher and yearbook Sion" will have on their schools. adviser at Lindblom said. Mrum­ But Northwestern University's linsky said '1he buck stops with Communication Professor the principal" if lawsuits emerge Franklyn F. Haiman, who against the school because of an teaches First Amendment article in the school paper. classes, says the ruling will have "Where did our tore- He believes the principal a great effect on high school stu­ should have the final authority dents in more ways than one. over any offical student publica­ "It will have a tremendous im­ tion. "(But) I'm there as advisor," pact on school sponsored activi­ he said. "I'm not there as their fathers say there is censor. ties, such as school newspapers and theatncal plays," Haiman "We (adults and students) have said. to sit down and deal with each As a result of the decision, he other as people, not combat­ said high school teachers "may an age limit on who ants." be checking with the with the principal to see (1f a scene in a school play) is OK with him." Haiman said some principals might even censor "personal has rights and who

student expression, n such as student petitions and wearing buttons to school. -Nereida Mercado, Hirsch The January 13 court decision doesn't?" was the culmination of a four year legal battle over the removal of articles on teen sexuality and divorce from the school paper of school. Steinmetz Principal Con- Hazelwood East High School in Nereida Mercado, a Hirsch stantine Kiamos said not much is Missouri. That school's principal senior, recently was awarded going to change at Steinmetz as had decided the articles invaded first prize in New Expression's a reult of the ruling. the privacy of some students and "Constitution Contest," a compe- "I certainly believe in the First parents ordered the stories titian designed to gauge student Amendment. I think it's a positive physically removed from the understanding of their Constitu- force for expression," he said. paper at the printing shop. tional rights. At an awards cere- Kiamos said he will "treat each Enraged student editors took many to honor her for her individual case as it comes up" their pnncipal to court, charging achievement Mercado spoke to and not look to censor school him with violating their First a reporter from the Chicago plays or the school paper. He Amundsen Advisor Resigns: Amendment rights. Sun-Times. says that much authority will A lower court in Missouri had "Where did our forefathers say remain with the teacher-advisers already decided in favor of the there is an age limit on who has of such activities. First Local Reaction students before the matter made rights and who doesn't?" she "I feel that minors should have its way to the U.S. Supreme asked. the First Amendment rights un- To Court Decision Court in October. "A student has not lost his right der the Constitution as adults," Despite contrary interpreta­ to free speech, he has lost Paula Barnes, a physical educa- She said writing good stories re­ tions, one Chicago-area high (some) rights (in school span- tion teacher at Lindblom, said. By Adolfo Mendez quires hard work. school teacher doesn't believe "it sored activites)," sa1d Wells Prin- "(Students are) young adults "After all the hard work is done, he'll was the intention" of the Su­ cipal David T. Peterson. He said who have to voice their opinions Just weeks after the Supreme Court probably tell us we can't print it. preme Court to allow principals he doesn't plan any "radical about situations in the schools granted high school principals What's the use (of writing for the the power to censor anything change" of policy on his role at that affect them," Barnes said. broader powers to censor "student paper)?" expression,· one Chicago high Brendrs desire to have prior review beyond the school press. Wells as a result of the ruling yet. Some high school students school teacher resigned as adviser to over the Log stems from a controver­ "I th1nk the ruling was limited to Ana Garcia, a JUnior at Wells may consider star!ing alterna- a student newspaper and a group of sial article that appeared in a copy of student JOurnalists," said Eliza­ and a member of the school's l ive, or "underground" newspa- editors said they would follow suit. one of last year's issue. According to beth Becco, an Engl1sh teacher Speech and Drama Club, said pnrs at their schools because of George Schmidt, a journalism Brendt, the article claimed two at Maywood's Prov1so East and her club is planning a school the ruling. teacher at Amundsen, resigned as Amundsen teachers had advised a adv1ser to the school's paper. stage performances in April. At Wells Principal Peterson said if advisor to the school newspaper, the student to drop out of high schoo l. The teachers were named. She doesn't thmk principals will press time, Garica said topics for students produced an "under- Log, two days after receiving publi­ cation guidelines from the school take it beyond that He said the accusation was com­ the performances haven't been ground newspaper" he would do principal. pletely false and concluded that he "It's going to be a ruling that's discussed in her class. but she nothing unless the distribution of Schmidt agreed with all the guide­ "Want(s) to see the paper· since he going to be challenged in the isn't worried about her principal it interferred with classroom ac- lines except one which allows •can't trust the students to be reason­ courts and I think 1t should," censoring their work. tivity. "The Supreme Court hasn't Amundsen Principal Bruce H. Brandt able." Becco said. She said if the club decides to shot that down," he said. to review the entire paper before it However, Kelly Peterson, a senior George Schmidt, a teacher at tackle a sensitive issue for a Peterson was referri ng to an- can be printed. and the former Editor-in-Chief of the After discussing th is guideline with Log, said it was a letter to the editor Amundsen who resigned as school play, she doesn't expect other Court decision which pre- the principal, Schmidt resigned, say­ adviser to that school's paper in that was "misconstrued by a lot of censorship. vents high school principals from ing, "I don't believe in prior restraint. people" as saying the teachers ad­ the aftermath of the ruling (see "If we really, really think we're banning papers which are com- "I bel1eve in debate after publica­ vised a student to drop out of high side bar) said not much w1ll right, and he (Peterson) doesn't, posed and printed through out- tion.· school Despite Brendt's comments, change. 1 guess we'll have to try and side resources. Brandt told New Expression he is she said Brandt is "a reasonable "The Supreme Court is uphold­ convince him. He isn't the type to The case (Fujishima vs. the using the recent Supreme Court rul­ man ... (the staH) could've worked with." ing what 98 percent of the high just say no, and that's it; he's Board of Education) was based ing to support his guidelines. He called Schmidt's decision to resign She also resigned from her position schools (principals) having been fair," Garcia said. on an attempt by Lane Tech ·unfortunate: on the paper, but said she did so do1ng already," he said. Schmidt "He's a talented man. What can I before Schmidt and her decision was argued, however, that the unwill­ Has your principal tried to control what goes do?· based pnmanly on matters not re­ Ingness of most student editors into your school paper. Are you concerned by Schmidt mainta1ns that prior to the lated to the prinicpal's guidelines. to tackle controversial subject the Court's decision? New Expression would principal's guideline, the student edi­ Other student ed1tors who said they matter through their papers did tors had "!mal power· over the edito­ planned to resign to protest the new not justify further limitation of like to know your opinion on this article, or any rial contents of the Amundsen paper, guidelines are junior Jeorge Paredes their free speech. and he believes 11 should remain that and senior Diana Sepeda of the other stories in this month's paper. way Moanwhtle, Schmidt said It'S up to "I don't see any 'except in h1gh Please wriie to Talk Back a1: So does Olga Ochoa, a senior and Brendt to decide if he will be allowed school cases' (1ncluded) in the Iormor editor for the Amundsen Log to conunuo teaching JOurnalism at First Am endment." Youlh Communication Sho told New Expression she will Amundson The r1rst Amendment prohibits 207 S. Wabash resign as well. The princ1pal sa1d that decision Is up Con!Jress from making any law Chicago, IL60604 "(Tho principal) will probably object to Schimdt. which restricts bas1c froodoms of to most of our stories," Ochoa sa1d IEJNew Expression fTBRUARY, 1988 • I On ,.:. ~.. ~ . . . . . More Power for Principals Means New Policy for Teen Expression January 13, 1988 may not to change their methods. ring any bells for most Basically, the Supreme Chicago high school stu­ Court has decided to con­ dents, but it a was a day centrate all power in one that will leave a shadow on person, and even if that all of us for a long time to person makes wrong deci­ come. It was the day the sions, students have little Supreme Court finally deliv­ means to prevent those de­ ered a judgment in the Ha­ cisions from taking effect. zelwood vs. Kuhlmeier case, The judgment is a huge a case which raised the step back for both students' question of just how much and teachers' rights. It control and power high makes it horribly easy for school principals should one bad principal to pull an have in their schools. entire school down with him. The Supreme Court's an­ What the Supreme Court swer: just about all that you hasn't realized is that this can imagine. law can take away some­ The case was lodged thing very important-the against the Hazelwood East chance to discuss serious High School principal by the issues and to get fair editors of the school news­ answers to a lot of difficult paper. The principal had questions. For some censored and deleted two people, school and teachers stories from the paper, one provide their only chance to dealing with teenage sexual­ do that. ity, the other with the effects What's the point of making of divorce on kids. The it difficult to discuss issues editors of the paper were in­ like sexuality and drugs in furiated and sued the princi­ classrooms and school pal, claiming that he did not ,newspapers? The only have the right to censor their result that's going to have is newspaper. forcing students to learn According to the Supreme about these issues the hard Court, he did. And what's way: through experimenta­ more, its judgment gives tion of their own that can be Illustration by Phat Chung principals control of more dangerous. Will the Su­ student government, year­ draw up an agreement with pressure on those who sign than the school newspaper. preme Court consider its books drama clubs and their principal about what · them. Principals can regulate any law successful if it results in others, and ensure that they kind of stories can be Principals knows that school-sponsored activities, more teenage pregnancies still have some rights. censored and how far that breaking a written policy and they also have the and sexually-transmitted There is no certain way of censorship could go, the would make them look bad power to ban any material diseases, or in higher doing that, but the best principal would have made a in the eyes of the students, that they consider "disrup­ numbers of drug addicts? method left to students is to written commitment that he the teachers, and even the tive" to the school's educa­ What we'll have to get draw up a policy statement would abide by certain rules. community. And that's the tional environment. used to is the fact that and to ask their principal to Of course, so would the strongest kind of power that That means that if a princi­ through the Hazelwood vs. sign it. editors. students still have to assert. pal decides that he or she Kuhlmeier case a precedent A policy statement is a How "enforceable" would To receive a copy of a doen't want the students to has been set, and that for at written agreement between such a policy statement be? model policy, editors should act in a play he doesn't least a while, we'll have to two groups that clearly Well, if a principal were to contact: approve of, or read a book learn to live with it. The spells out the powers and break his or her agreement, Student Press Law Center he doesn't like, he can stop question that faces students rights that each side has­ the students would probably 800 18th St. N.W. them. If he doesn't like the now is how they can protect or doesn't have. For ex­ not be able to take that Suite 300 way the teachers handle themselves and their or­ ample, if the editors of a principal to court. But written Washington, D.C. classes, he can order them ganizations-newspapers, student newspaper were to agreements do put a lot of (202) 466-5242 Letters to the Edi

Navy response more made her a Navy journalist an "adventure" th an she ex­ Am erican Friends Service Rights and responsibilities than performing first aid would pected. However, I think you Committee is an organization I read the article "Student Re­ make her a doctor. should also publish an account that provides free counselling to Congratulations on the impres­ cruits Navy for College Cash" in By the way, when Miss Branton by a person who has found the youth who are considering the sive work you and your staff are your October issue with great signed her Navy enlistment con­ Navy to be a very satisfy ing and military. doing in the publication of New interest, having been a Navy tract, she signed a statement that rewarding career. I am sure I can We believe that high school stu­ Expression. Having been in journalist for the past 15 years. she had received no other prom­ find you any number of real Navy dents see the military as the only charge of a school newspaper, I Miss Branton seems self­ ises than those which were con­ journalists who would be glad to alternative for securing a job or am very aware of the creativity, righteously appalled that her tained in the contract itself. write such an article. getting an education before ex­ lime, cooperation, and expertise recruiter "lied" to her, yet she Therefore, either the recruiter did ploring other options. Most of needed to have a successful seems to have no qualms about not make her any special prom­ Tim Padgett them end up frustrated, with bad newspaper which will leave an stating that she "officially be­ ises, in which case she lied in her Navy Chief Journalist discharge papers and with no impact on its readers. came a Navy journalist" aft er two article, or the recruiter did make education. Your topics-the treatment of months of training in a Navy her some special promises, in American friends for students Youth should be well-informed them and their timeliness­ Public Affairs Office. I find th at which case she lied on her enlist­ before enlisting in any branch of make your paper an instrument extremely hard to believe. Un­ ment contract. I just finished reading an article the Armed Forces. "Proyecto which can and does make stu­ less Miss Branton completed the In all fairness, I must admit that on your special college section Urayoan" of the AFSC provides dents think and evaluate their course of instruction at the De­ recruiters (and all other people) entitled "Student Recruits Navy this information. We are located points of view. New Expression fense Information School, she do sometimes lie, and I must for College" which I found very at 2410 N. St. Louis Ave, Chi­ has more of an impact on stu­ has not been a Navy Journalist. furthur admit that Miss Branton is interestmg. cago, IL, Tel. 486-8883 or 427- dents because students are She may have written articles for certamly not the only person who The reason I am writing to you is 2533. more apt to listen to their peers a Navy newspaper, but that no has found the Navy to be less of to inform your readers that the (Continued on Page 13) Elsa L. Chavez New Expression FEBRUARY, 198B m Comfortably Numb

By Debbie Fla pan too late, but when it did, she laughed so hard she dropped the phone. Oh God! Where arc my fingers? I Thump, thump. looked around. Most of the kids "Sorry," she sputtered as she came were listcrung to Mr. Truman, back on. "I dropped the phone." whose fly was at half mast as usual, I know, I thought. "S 'okay," I said lecture on the properties of a chemi­ quietly. cal reaction. Diana, two aisles over "I gotta let you go," she continued. and one scat up, was writing a note to "Can you stop by later tonight?' her boyfriend. She caught my eye " I doubt it. I've got a lot of home- and winked.[ managed a weak smile work to do," I lied. back. "Okay. I'll talk to ya tomorrow." "Nothing is real," raged Mr. Tru­ "Yeah, later." man. "Substances combine and "Bye." wham! You've got somethin g else. "Bye." Click. Matter makes chemistry and chem­ I replaced the phone quietly and istry combines matter. Without ci­ sighed. l glanced around my room thcrone we have nothing!" He obvi­ and tested the wall. It was still there. ously loved his work and as he Good. looked over our class his black eyes In school the next day I couldn't sparkled. I have to admit I was concentrate. In geometry I stared interested ... but my fingers! across the room at some guy I didn't "There is not pain, you are reced­ know whose light brown skin sur­ ing ... " rounded dark intense eyes. His long I couldn't feel a thing. My fingers wavy black hair rested lightly on his wrote, made a fist, and drummed a shoulders. Good looking ... Oh well. beat, but I couldn't feel a thing! It "Pssst! Deidra! I've been tapping seemed as if they had a mind of their gone... " " Do you dream a lot?" ers and headed for my room. My your shoulder for a half hour! " own. It was almost soothing, as if I looked at him then. Did I want to room: I love it. It's not very big, but "Your lips move, but I can't hear they were asleep. I put it out of my The first time I went to see him­ tell this stranger about my dreams? it has a dresser, loads of books what you're saying ..." mind when the bell rang. It was he has a spacious office with huge No. lnstcadi began to tell him a fairy stacked by size on the shelves, a bed It was Diana in the seat behind me. probably poor circulation or some­ chairs, no couch (unlike the mov­ tale I had heard as a child. It was the and a desk/make-up table. Between I raised my eyebrows. "Half an thing. ies), the kind you sink into like story of a tiny tree that begged the the bed and dresser were my phone, hour?" Last class of the day. I lingered at quicksand-! was extremely nerv­ larger trees around him to let him radio, and tapes. Music! Even the "Well," she said sheepishly, my locker, chatting about nothing ous. My hands were trembling vio­ have some sunlight and rain. They word was expressive! Music is ex­ "maybe not that long, but long with some friends. lently and my mouth was a desert. I refused and grew bigger as a squirrel pression-lyrics are only accompa­ enough! What's wrong with you?" "Nothing is real." Mr. Truman's had told my best friend, Julia, about made its home in the tiny tree. Even­ niment. "Sorry, I have a lot things on my words rang out in echoes as it rico­ it beforehand. tually the tree died, but the squirrel I put on my favorite .album, "Pirtk mind." She'd think I was crazy if I cheted through my mind. I shivered. "Don't worry about it," she said. lived in it for many years afterward. Floyd: The Wall." As I listened I told her I couldn't feel a thing! "Reality is not what one sees, it is "The guy's only human-he's not Dr. Fried listened intently through could feel "the wall" building "Anyway, do you have yesterday's what is actually there. The trouble is going to bite you." the entire story, leaning forward around me- so strong and protec­ chem assignment?" she whispered distinguishing the two." Whatever you say, Julia. with this fingers shaped like a tive. Would it ever crumble, I won­ as the teacher glanced our way. I'd heard that somewhere. They I sat, actually fell, in one of his steeple and his chin resting on their dered idly. "Who wasn't listening then?" I (the words) came back to haunt me beige leather chairs. A huge slab of tips. His eyes held mine fo r a mo­ I tapped my fingers on my thigh as teased. "Nah, I forgot to write it now. hardwood separated us as he sat ment after I had finished and I was I listened, then stopped. I hit my leg down." I turned back around in my "Deidra, are you okay?" Diana down behind his desk. It seemed as frightened that he knew I was telling with my fist. Then I clapped my seat as I felt a wave of fear drowning asked me. "You were standing there if it was fortress to shield him from him a story and not my dreams. hands together. There was no feel­ me. This numbness was going too with this empty look on your face the enemy-me. I'm a good liar, though, and I did ing in my hands or legs. Jesus. I far. I didn't know what to do. Could and your hand kept opening and Dr. Fried had thick, wavy black my best to sec that hcdidn'tknow. T giggled a high pitched laugh, feeling The Shrink help? Dr. Fried wasn't closing. It was really weird." hair and wire framed glasses which made myself calm and relaxed; my that was just a tad hysterical. It was such a bad guy; he just symbolized "Silly, my hand just fell asleep!" I reflected the fluorescent lights so face became a blank m a~ k. Appar­ all so strange it was funny. I began to too much. wiggled my fingers in front of her that[ couldn't sec his eyes. My eyes, ently he hadn't realized the truth as hum "Outside, Looking ln." Forgot I didn't want to hang around my eyes; she giggled. No feeling. None however, were beginning to hun. he began to interpret my "dream." who it's by. [ started my homework. locker today; it was race for time. I at all. "Look, I'm kind of tired. I'm "Well," Dr. Fried had said after he Maybe that piercing look was During dinner my mom was com­ had to either get help or become gonna get going." Amidst a flurry of sat down. " How are your feelings, something they taught him in med plaining about a eranJ...)' client at the completely numb. Half of me was good-byes and one, "Later, chick," I Dcidra?" school. Wherever he learned it, it office. l think my brother was kick­ urging my mental self to just let it left the school. I stared at him. "Excuse me?" wasn't real... (nothing is real, noth­ ing me under the table. However, I happen. Actually, it was almost time to sec "How are your feelings?" he re­ ing is real). only felt a buzzing sensation like "Nothing will ever hurlyou again," The Shrink, but I didn't want to tell peated. Not, "How are you feeling?" Dr. Fried said I was the small tree, when your foot wakes up after it's a voice whispered in my ear. "You them that. It's no big deal. I just or "How are you?" I began to feel my parents and authority figures been asleep a long time. I smiled at won't need anyone. You 'II be safe, didn't feel like letting them know.lt suffocated in that chair. I swal­ were the larger trees, and my friends him; he looked confused. Then Julia forever drifting ... " I glanced around had been my own decision to see Dr. lowed. were the sunlight and rain. The called. We talked about school and the bus. No one was looking at me. Fried and Mom said okay. "Uh, they're fine, thank you," l squirrel was my hope. various other girl talk. The voice was in my head. She's pretty li beral, my mother. managed. "And yours?" It all sounded very convincing, but ''Listen, Deidra," Julia finally said. "But all alone!" another voiced She had yoga classes twice a week "Oh fine." He smiled, baring it wasn't true. I usually get along "Arc you okay? I mean, you seem so shrieked. "Is that what you want? between meetings of the League of white, even teeth. I thought of with my parents and teachers. and I distant lately." Eternity in a black void of nothing­ Women Voters. Anyway, she made Julia's words of reassurance with a don't want any more friends. Julia "No problem," I said indifferently. ness!" it screamed. Then came the the appointment. I'm not really sure wry smile. and Diana are quite enough for me, 'The shrink's been bugging me." laugh. I felt the hair on my arms and why I wanted to, except that ] felt the "I low is school?" thank you. I hate large crowds. "What's going on?" Julia tried to on the back of my neck begin to rise. need to talk to someone. Today was "Just fine." I can be in a big group of people and put concern into her voice, but I It was morel ike a cackle, actually, as our fourth session and, frankly, it "Are your grades satisfactory? still feel completely alone. I'm used could tell she was thinking about if someone had just viewed a par­ was getting a little dull. Believe me, "Up and down, I suppose. to it by now. Dan, her ex-boyfriend. Her mind ticularly grisly scene and found it the man is stranger than I am. Geometry's a little low, but I'll pull When 1 left Dr. Fried's office­ was a thousand miJcs away. It only amusing. I really wanted him to help me, through." feeling really disgusted with myself happens once in a while, but when it I was horrified by what I heard and though, and looked forward to this "I sec. Do you have many fri ends?" because l had hoped to be honest happens while we're talking about I kept whispering, "Stop! Stop!" as I appointment all week. I was really I thought of the large group of kids with him- ! realized I couldn't feel something important, it's really irri­ tried to busy myself by reading the sorry he didn'ttum out ri ght for me. I did everything with, movies and my toes. I wiggled, then stomped my tating. ads on the bus. Several people were However, there's nothing I can do stuff. I didn' r know any of them well feet. giving me strange looks; I ignored about it. except for Juli a. Nothing. "You are only coming through in them. It was becoming easier to "Enough." I began to smile. lt was kind of waves ... " ignore anything I wanted. I looked "When I was a child "I see." Just what did he see? He'd funny. My own secret. A pleased away from the other passengers, but I caught a fl eeting glimpse taken off his glasses now and his feeling remained with me all the "He said my parents arc trees," l not before I saw the fear in their Out of the comer of my eye eyes seemed like black coals trying way home. said with a straight face. eyes. ~aybc I am crazy, I thought ! turned to look but it was to bum into my brain.( looked away. Once home I kicked off my sneak- Julia's laughter came in a second (Continued on Next Page) ~New Expression FEBRUARY, 1988 Comfortably Numb calmly. But it's so much easier ... Are you feeltng a little sick?" Home once again. I completely forgot about HOT SHOTS calling Dr. Fried. Instead I looked up my con­ I was wonderfully free from pain of any dition in a medical handbook of my father's. kind! "Autism: absorption in self-centered mental A week later I sat in my room reading while activity(such as fantasies, delusion. and hallu­ listening to 'The Wall." I kept having to fight cinations) accompanied by withdrawal from waves of blackness as they crashed against my reality. Usually caused by a biochemical im­ eyes and threatened to engulf my mind. Fi­ balance." I closed the book with a disgusted nally I put the book down and closed my eyes. slap. That couldn't be me, I decided. I know "Eternity in a black void of nothingness." I what I'm feeling (or not feeling) is real! Isn't heard the voice repeat itself over and over it? intermingling with the sounds of Pink Floyd. Over the next few days I found it harder and I opened my eyes and everything was in harder to talk as the numbness progressed to shades of gray and black. I continued to lay my larynx and mouth. Smiling was next to still, immobile, feeling paralyzed. Minutes impossible because it required feeling to per­ later I was surrounded by thin sheets of smokey form. As it traveled to my ears and nose, my blackness as though a gauze of black veil had sense of smell disappeared completely and I been placed over my eyes. heard things as if from a great distance. Slowly but surely the numbness crept up into As the numbness kept spreading I enjoyed my mind, strangling the thought to call Dr. testing myself to see if it was still there. I Fried, and everything was silent except for the burned my ftnger with a lighter. The skin last words of the song: turned a dark red, blistered, and fell off. I felt none of it. I poked my chest and stomach full of "The child is grown, holes with a pin. Nothing. The dream is gone. And I have become "Just a little pin prick. Comfortably numb ... " There will be no more Aaaah! Letters to>the Editor ''

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album is more hard-driving than those of Meli'sa Morgan other softer metal bands. There are some popular tunes on Back Good Love for the Attack, such as "Dream Warriors" and "Burning Like a Flame," but most of the Good Love is the title of Meli'sa Morgan's album's appeal comes from its other, new album which is a lively mixture of lesser known songs, such as "Prisoner." sweet and seductive songs that are easy to The only bad point about the album is its dance to. length. After an hour the listener may feel Meli'sa was introduced to us last year with that the band compromised quality of a cover of an old song by Prince, "Do Me sound for quantity of songs. This is easily Baby," which was a successful updating of overlooked because the band makes up the song. On her second album, she pres­ for it with style and musical talent. ents herself as a talented producer, song­ It seems that Dokken is trying to change writer and singer. their style to convert more listeners from In her song, "If You Can Do It, I Can Too," harder metal and popular music to their her voice goes to a more jazzy type of beat, cause. They've shed their "make-up" im­ but does not show off her sophisticated age and have concentrated on improving soprano voice. their musical style. The effort seems to be Another popular song from Meli'sa succeeding since the album has already Morgan's album is a duet with Kashif en­ sold a million copies. The hard driving style titled, "Changes," a remake of an Ashford combined with the singing talents of Don and Simpson song. "Changes" allows Dokken make it an album for the masses. Meli'sa to let her voice go and creates a The talent of Dokken is undeniable, and powerful mood worthy of her top ten status. Back for the Attack is a good example of "Changes" is well liked by young and old that talent. With this album, Dokken at­ because of its low steady beat and its talented singer, she is not an original artist. writing talent and less on rehashes of other tempts to appeal to all spectrums of listen­ similarity to a real romantic relationship. To establish herself as a true artist in the people's music. ers and succeeds without watering down Unfortunately, though Morgan may be a future she will have to rely more on her own Shanell Allen their style or---- talent. ------, Next month New ALL-CITY Expression's Entertain­ ment Section will begin a MEETING new feature, covering For the local club dates, open­ Entertainment Staff ings and local and na­ Anyone interested in tional entertainment writing reviews or fea­ AMERICA'S CLASS RING. news. tures for the Entertain­ If you have any an­ ment section of New Ex­ Has moved from nouncements or informa­ pression· please join us 6 W. Randolph tion you'd like to see in­ at a meeting February 24 cluded in our new feature at 4 pm. Our offices are at please call Dave Ratzlow 207 S. Wabash, 8th floor. Our New Location: at663-0543, or write New Call Dave Ratzlow at Expression, 207 S. 663-0543 for more infor­ The Pittsfield Wabash, Chicago, IL mation. 60604. Building ~-... :R9of 55 E. Washington photographers Suite 214 In the Picture of ·Chicago, Illinois 60602 Chicagoland's Finest Schools Phone: 263-3402 Since 1889

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