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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. ·.~~·:·x· ~teW e~ev:-e~ff'V elass of 7996 YOUTH COMMUNICATION 1995·1996 Board of Directors Officers It is ished President ~w e'lf'"e~ff'V William (Dal) Frost · (ret.) Canadian Pacific Forest Products, Inc. NE St•ff '95·'96 It's over. We made it. Four years of high school is down to a matter of hours. Looking back, I hope Immediate Past President Managing Editor each and every senior feels proud of his or her accomplishments and remembers only the good times Deborah L. DeHaas · Arthur Andersen & Co. Heather MacDonald, Kenwood and the friendships they formed. College/Careers Editor VIce President We leave the Chicago Public School System experiencing growing pains while trying to affect real Helen Murphy Jones • Crain's Chicago Marjani J. Coffey, St. Ignatius reform. While the fi rst steps have been taken, much remains to be done. If real rcfonn is to take root in Business Creative Writing Editor our schools, they need our communities' support. As alumnis, we can give back to our former schools Kente B. Johnson-Taylor, Chicago Academy for the Arts Treasurer and help innumerable struggling students. None of us could have Marta Kilpatrick • Sara Lee Corporation Entertainment Editor done it alone, and to solve the problems the school system deals William Lee, Harold Washington College Secretary with, we must help others. Layton E. Olson · Howe & Hutton, Ltd. Health Editor I'd like to think that the Class of 1996 will herald a new era of Rachael Zamora. Whitney Young Assistant Secretary young adult activism and change. perhaps starting with the News Briefs Editor Helen Schubert • Helen Schubert Public Democratic National Convention this August. We must move Robert Martin, Htrsch Metro Relations forward without forgetting where we came from and how we got Fashion Coordinator General Directors there. Shena Ponder. Whitney Young Phi lip Costello · Logic Plus It's obvious that teens can make a difference in their own lives Mary Dedinsky · Medill School of Journalism Photography Editor and the lives of those around them. While being a student is hard Jean Doyle • Ben & Jerry's John Kraft, St. Ignatius enough, we, as teens and young adults. must remember to fight to Kai El' Zabar · N'DIGO Magapaper make our voices heard no matter how uphill the battle may be, Special Assignments Editor Paula Eubanks · Columbia College while remembering to have fun and be young. Marcia Chatelain, St. Ignatius Bill Haljun ·The Neighbor Group Heather MacDonald has experienced a lot of changes this year, and Sports Editor John B. Johnson • Rand McNally & Company New Expression Harold Bell, Hyde Park Claude Peck • (ret.) Inland Steei-Ryerson I think that we have attempted to give teens a voice that the Foundation establishment must listen to or be left behind. Teens must remember that they are in control of their Alpaa ... Chemica Brown, Whitney Young Harvey K. Porchia · Chicago Tribune own destinies, with a voice and an opinion that deserves to be heard and acted upon. Peace. Ka rmeisha Boyd, Whitney Young Dimitra Tasiouras · Chicago Foundation for P.S. Our regular health column, sponsored by the William C. Bannerman Foundation, is this month's Quiana Carter, Whitney Yo ung Women cover story. Ayesha Harmon, Whitney Young Craig Taylor· YOCAT Design Heather }VIacDonald Davtd Jones, Fenger Youth Advisor Sarat Mackey, Maria Heather MacDonald, Kenwood Mooog;"gEd;tO< ~ ) Leslie Matthews, Whitney Young Honorary Directors Corey Miggins, Harlan Jose Chapa • Jose Chapa lroc .. Communications Alexandna Morns, Whttney Young Dick Ciccone· Chicago Tribune Roman Morrow, Columbia College Fred Eychaner · WPWR·TV Channel SO Anne E. Nash, Lane Tech Clarence Page· Chicago Tribune Ylayn Ousley, Whitney Young Charles Price- (ret.) Chicago Sun-Times C over photo b y Paul Price, South Shore Billye Rhodes, Whitney Young Robert Regan • Oakbrook International Merideth Stone, Whitney Young Heidi Schultz· Agora Inc. Marcus Thomas, Kenwood Gloria Scoby • Crain Communicaltons, Inc. Amanda Veasley, Whitney Young Table o[ Contents llluatr•tors/Photogr•phers Many thanks to our friends and supporters Mark Flores, Latm who made this Issue possible: John Martin The College Beat Paul Pnce, South Shore ACLU AT&T Mtke Rob1nson, Morgan Park Amencan National Bank Foundation Religious institutions and Hollywood U. Bualneaa lntema Anhur Andersen/ Roberto Balcazar and Andersen Consulting Jahmilah Bell, Jones Metro Avenor America, Inc. BankAmerica Foundation Adult St•ft Bank ol America Illinois Executive Director The Chicago Bar Foundation B1ll Brooks Ben & Jerry's Editorial Advisor William C. Bannerman Foundation The Board of Directors The Law & You Adolfo Mendez Leo BumeH Company, Inc. 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2 NE JUNE 1996 gender you like to sleep w1th, it body and half of lhe time it's from By William Lee, Harold Wa. hington doc~n't make any difference." boredom or dissatisfaction wilh !.heir Bangcok says. Curtis Lowe, a appearance." Nineteen-year-old Maugarita Teens getting pierced tattooist at the Ch1 cago Tauooing Tkalccvic Vladimir. M.D .. says Gonzalez it up nervously on the Co., agree>. "You can p1ck anyone from an adult standpoint lhat ''basi examination table. from lawyers to doctors, college cally the main psychological problem ''I'm a little nervou - now ," she students, white-collar workers. is entering into society now when ays, giggling. in more places than More professional people are being lhcy're adults [with tattoos]." The piercing artist goes through tattooed now:· he says. "There is a percentage of people the steps a fi nal time and lays out Piercing and tattooing aren' t new who do have [mental] instabilities," the in truments necessary for the fad~. Bangcock insists, poinung out Bangcock says. "But lhe majority of procedure. He choose and sterilizes just their ears ... that body piercing and tauoos have people getting p1erced and tattooed the spot where the ring will go, been practiced since the beginning are very lhougbtful, artistic-minded placing the receiving tube in ide of ume. He ci ted a magatme article people." one nostril to make sure not to about the Iceman, a prchi>tonc man Lumenthal agrees. "It used to be puncture the eptum. He pu he the found 111 ICC who apparentl} had that way: Tattoos were a b1ker lhing needle through her no~e. then ptcrcmgs and tattoos around his or pi) are lool\mg to fit in . un~atisfied with lhetr exual fa hion craze. supported by Thi'> 1~ one of the way that some experience and have to find ways of countlc s movie and mu ic stars. one expres\es themselves. their experimenting and findmg new ow body piercing is catching the mdJvJduality This is how someone ways of having a better experience, eyes of teenagers-and their noses. choose to bring lhcmselve clo er and that' one of the places thar lips and even !.heir genitals. to what they want to be,'' ays p1ercmg has falle n in ... Bangcock "Anytime a professional figure. Bangcock. say . be they models, actors or sports Lowe. the tallOOI'il. agrees. "Most Smce you have to be 21 years old figures, get a tattoo or a piercing, adolc<.ccnts are probably just trying to to get a tattoo in Illino1 , many there's always a surge," says Hank find a better way to ex pre thcm teenager are receiving homemade Bangcock, the piercer at Chicago 'ehcs or get the1r n Jtlentny. tattoos. wh1ch can be vef) danger Tattooing Co. ·'People like [Dennis] 0'' That·.., \Omethmg lhat more often lhan au Rodman, Madonna ... anytime not 1s a measure of rebellion .. "There' defini te!) a chance of anyone who is in a highly visual Jake Lumenlhal, a p1ercer at Tatu mfecuon and blood poi oning. both position like that gets pierced, of Tattoo, 1\eeps 1t imple. " It' a Ia ·hton of "hich "'ill IJII you,'' ay Daryl. course, we end up with more \tatemcnt." he say!>. ·· <1\ cl p1ercing a tattooi tat Tatu Tattoo. The arne business from it." 1s very popular w1lh the young gtrl . can be n1d for piercing. which has Tattoos are still more popular lt's a body adornment for ... ome: n's a an age l1mll of 18 in Chtcago. , lhan body piercing, Bangcock says. pmtual lhmg for ome .. forcmg teens to fmtl other wavs to No one more famous has been seen A hole in one? A young woman proudly diSplun her ne\\1) pierced nal•al ThanJ..r However. !.here are olher reasons a get them, including having !.heir with these decorations than Chi to celebrines like Clucago Bull Demus Rodman and rmger Madonna. lt't'IIS are now perwn gets piercing and talloos. fnend pierce them. cago Bulls forward Dennis Rod adorning many nontrad11ional bod) parts wlllr earnngs and other Jt'WI'In•. Ke1th Hamngton. pres1dent and CEO ''Anyone who' not properly man, who says he uses piercing and of lhc L. A. Laser Center, a tattoo tramcd in anatomy and phy iolog). tattoos to express himself. show how LOugh they were. Now pierced or tattooed. removal erv1ce 1n Chicago, .;ay • "A of course. i dangerou introducing Gone are the days when only many different types of people arc " It doesn't matter what race lot of times rebelhou youlh will get ·tee I 1nto a fore1gn part of lhe bikers and sailors got tattoos to getting !'.ome part of thc1r anatomy you're from. what ex you nrc. \vhat ~cvem l amateur tattoo all O'-Cr !.heir bod):· Bangcock. a) Whitney Young principal confiscates student newspaper
By Heath er MacDonald, Ken~+ood 'The ~wry was halanced f:ur and evenhanded poor JUdgrncnt call " the1r Jhilll~ to get thtngs done. P.R.IDE .. th~ gJ)" and bb1.111 ·upport The quOte wa.' from the VICC pre,ident of the The ~tory dealt ~~ 1th the d1sappomung The club Ia eJ hnr;h cnumm for 1t:> group. J tulil recogmzed club Kenn.:r Wh1tney Young Princ1pal Joyce club. and they know whatlhcy were talk.mg year that the Afncan-Amcncan Clu~ lm:t:d and dcpil'tlnn of Afncan-Amencans .llthe Blnc~ 2,100 reponed I) wantt't.l to m:lke sure that t. Kenner ordered cop1es of the school about. Johnson took it personal." thc1r rlan\ for nc.\t year I he story l-1 1~tory Month A'>scmbly Seen~·~ 1nrludcd a Cloud\ parents kne'' of h.:r k ·b1Jmsm. newspaper, The Beacon, dewoyed May 21 Gray and the paper\ sa1d th.ll John~on fmled to Obck Panther mil) \\hJch u~'d tO) gun~ as
JUNE 1996 NE 3 First Place Third Place Julia Sorisho Do you think any of the major candidates for U.S. president have Von Steuben Sarah Fareed Von Stueben I think that the presidential addressed the issues that concern teens during this election? candidates of 1996 have been Most of today's problems deal addressing issues that concern the nation as a whole, including What issues would you like to see covered? Why? with teens and the candidates for president of the United States of teenagers. Programs and issues president's candidacy. Let's see to high school and later college. create more jobs and make people America should discuss them. such as health care, taxes, the here ... teenage issues are teen This improvement also affects the not regret living in the United Yes, I do think that a major budget and the welfare system are pregnancy, alcoholism and economy and the world, in States. candidate has addressed the issues all in need of reform, and the drugs, right? There are essence, since we arc the There are also universal issues concerning today's teens, Bill presidential candidates have made many private organizations future leaders of that teenagers are concerned about. Clinton. He has tackled a lot of concerted efforts to help try to that take care of these issues this world. The environment is a big concern issues dealing with today's youth. solve these problems. and spend millions on among teenagers. I'm sure that He is fighting for better funding for Before Steve Forbes. a Republi publications, hotline numbers, many will agree with this. I know education and the environment and can, dropped out of the race, he guest speakers in schools as that the president can not interfere is trying to reform the health care proposed a nat tax program where well as countless studies done with other countries, but I system. These issues drastically all Americans paid a fixed amount on teen behavior. would like to know what they affect today's teens. If there is of taxes every year. The idea might If teenagers don' t li sten to can do for rain forests and better funding for education, teens be implemented by other Republi their parents, teachers, friends, other environmental issues will have a better chance of getting can candidates, such as Bob Dole, the countless guest speakers or -~~~~~ that are creating problems a better education, which will keep even the many all over the worl d. such as them away from doing or dealing TV specials and the cutting of trees in the drugs and committing crimes. This talk shows about Amazon. Many adults wi ll insure a bright future and engaging (for think that it is just healthy atmosphere for all teens. example) in another forest, but If there is better funding for premarital sex, they are what keep health care, there will be better then these teens I hope that America us alive. Candidates should be programs to educate today's teens have their minds elects a good president, a concerned with what teenagers are about sexually transmitted diseases well rooted in this president who has concerned about. and how to prevent pregnancy. decision and will solutions to problems In conclusion, I want to make it There would also be drug rehabili not listen to the such as the budget, taxes clear that many "teen" issues. like tation centers that would allow president of the and health care. The the environment, are "adult'' issues, discouraged teens to get back on United States. leaders of today should do their too. There are many issues that their feet and better themselves. If The one teen best to insure that we have a concern us, and I feel that they have teens are educated, the abortion issue I would like bright future ahead of us, and that not been properly addressed by the rate will go down, as wi ll the to see addressed begins with solving the problems candidates for U.S. president. In the party nominee, or Pat number of teenage mothers. is improving education in schools. that concern every American short, the candidates should address Buchanan. With these ideas in mind, a This affects more than teenagers, citizen. not only the issues that concern us, To be quite honest, I fee l that the better America can be created, with and better educational programs in but also issues that we are con few issues teenagers do have a better future for America's teens. elementary schools can provide a SecondPlace: cerned about. should not be a major part of any good foundation for teens who go Ferinand G. Libano Von Steuben
No, I do not believe any of the This month, candidates for U.S. president have addressed any issues concerning New Expression teenagers. Had they done so, I probably should have heard about prints the results of how they can, say, "improve," my TWO essays. life as a teenager. I don't even know if they are concerned about See page six for us because all they probably care another essay contest. about are the voters who are not teenagers under 18. I think they should make their plans, for teenagers more obvious if they had any at all. I want the candidates to discuss some general issues such as safety fl special and better education. All the time I have been living here in rrHAJJK you to America, I have always wondered all our readers who about my safety, money and responded to this essay contest. education. What I think the candidates should be addressing is Please be sure your voice is heard how they can improve the lives of at the ballot box this fall! people in America by setting up plans designed to decrease crime, . rrhe editors Matters of degrees ~-ull~·~iat~· int·u und insi~ht llollywood'st ake on collegelife doesn'tpa ~s thegrade
8) Irene Rh era, Bowen never taken their studies very seriously at all, Martarn also adds that it's quite common for students to and Racltael Zamora, Wbitnt) \'oung and usually changing the habits of those "go a little bit crazy" when they first arrive at their new High school graduates are often very students is a very difficult task, she says. home. But, she says, there's nothing wrong with that as eager to go to college, though sometimes Usa Martarn, a counselor at Columbia College, long as students know when enough's enough for the wrong reasons. Some students might agrees. "PCU is not very different from some Some students feel that movies do influence the way be misled by movie portrayals of life on colleges because a lot of students have 'politi they chose their future college home, like Adam Ruvalcaba campus. Movies often depict the college cally correct' ideas Some of these groups even a freshmen at Columbra College "I was a little brt rnfiu years as not much more than sex. liquor hold events so people can learn more about !herr enced by movies when rt came to the surrounding that I and parties. backgrounds or beliefs." Martarn says wanted to be rn . but when rt came down to it, I thought These types of movres may rnfluence But movres like "Threesome" tell about the about my education frrst." Ruvalcaba says students to place their studies near the everyday problems college students face hke Begrnnrng your college education may be difficult. There bottom of their lists of priorities. Movres such frndrng a JOb to pay for school and makrng sure may be a lot of drstractions like clubs, fratem Ires and other as "Animal House," "PCU," "House Party 2" that rt doesn't rnterfere wrth classes party crews Don't be sucked rn by all of the chaos that and "Revenge of the Nerds" tend to make a "It can be a httle brt excrtrng for freshmen surrounds you because rt may not be what you need to get college education seem less rmportant than when they first come to college." Martarn says you through hfe successfully. McMahon adVIses. parties, fraternities and sororrties "They don't know anyone. so they try every Movres are fun to watch but they don t always tell you "'Animal House' exaggerated college life by making rt thing to get a feel for what college hfe rs like After a while the everythrng you need to now about your future surroundings seem more triVIal than rt is ," says Patncra McMahon. a students reahze that that s not gorng to get them through so don't take them at all to heart because you mrght get a counselor at Roosevelt Umversrty Some students have college so they slow down on the partyrng and so forth _" rude awakenrng when you fina lly amve. Martarn says
Students at St. Norbert to attend XaVIer was because she Church or state: Which College are requrred to do commu "lived nght across the street from nrty servrce. Thrs includes servrces the unrversrty." such as food drives and adopting O'Keeffe rs maJonng rn family university or college a town rn Central studies and plans to work with America dysfunctional families rn the near St Xavter future. affiliation is right for Umversrty, Marquette University rs a Jesuit located rn rnstitutron. Jesurts are members of By Cristina Velasq uez, Maria religious school we teach knowl suburban the Socrety of Jesus, the largest edge and connect it with religious Chrcago, was Roman Catholic religious order. Is there a significant difference values from a Catholic founded by the Students are requrred to take between a public university and tradition." Sisters of Mercy theology and Marquette's educa one with a religious affiliation? DePaul is an urban, in 1846. Mary tional goal is to help its students to "When I think of private Catholic O'Keeffe, a senior help others. Catholic universities, I universr ty that I at St. Xavrer, took Clearly, theology {that is, an think of students who was founded by Buddhism and a overall grasp of Bible teachrng) are all well-mannered the Vincentian course rn the New won't be re quired at public univer and properly dressed Fathers. Students Testament to fulfill her sities. But don't misunderstand all going to pursue vary in age, academic Hernrst rehgrous studres and thrnk that the theology will try their religious dream,· preparation, qualifica Impression or a requirements. "I to force a change in your belief says Sandee Nimit, tion and ca ree r goals. CltboUc dropped the Buddhism system. Who knows, you may find an 18-year-old Undergraduate class because I had a that theology's the "queen of the freshman at the unhierllty was students planning to hard time understand sciences." University of Illinois at that h was attend must take a ing the teacher. The There's a variety of different Chicago. going to be HOed religious study course other class was courses that you can take, so Fr. Edward of their choice, wh ich with "a lot or interesting but difficult consider the options and make a Udovic C.M., secre are classes from For ·' ettior.\ who ' I' C already m ruh• tlll•ir 111118." d eci,io n abo ut wltt•rt• t o fllfl'll d , because I took a lot of decision. tary for university different religions. New E x pn•~>s iu n CO IIf:ratulall'S y ou! hard tests," she says. ..,_ mission at DePaul, "We want the St. Norbert is a private Catholic Her first impression of a Catholic says, "At a public university, its students to see that a total college, surrounded by the wide university was that it was going to purpose is to have the students education should include a study and do research, but at a religious dimension," Udovic says. green spaces located in subur- be fi lled with "a lot of nuns." But ~~~~~~~~~~~ ban Wisconsin. the only reason she finally decided ~ JUNE 1996 NE 5 D_o you think that the arts (i.e., dance, music, visual arts, theatre, creative writing) x: important part of he h·gh school curriculum? by? Which
F"wstPiace so that her artistic potenti at~ are important to you in Elizabeth Uscinski, developed. There are other ways in • } ? This is the time when young adults, math to reading. However. the arts Kennedy which teens express their feelings. part I CU ar . like me, begin to develop in a way should not be part of that curriculum. I They draw murals to replace graffiti that will affect the rest of their Jives. think they should be part of extracur Have you ever tried something out covered walls; they enter art contests Students begin to open their eyes and ricular activities instead. of the ordinary or experienced the joy Why? for beneficial causes like disabled envision themselves 50 years or more Sure, things like dance. music and of actually doing what you dreamed persons and antiviolence campaigns. I from now. Fifty years! theater are fun. but are they going to of for a very long time? love to play the piano because I can Even 25 years is hard to get one far in life? I have to admit, I Well, fonunately, I have! And what express my happiness, fear and pride imagine. love music, but if I have to choose a pleasure it was to hear sweet music through it. It doesn' t get better than Art is just as important as between mu ic or a subject like math, come from moving my fingers swiftly that• learning about history and math I'd choose math. I'll be the first to say across the keyboard. Sure, it was If I still haven' t made myself clear ematics. All these subjects in the I'm terrible at math, and developing nothing like Frederick Chopin playing and convincing about arts being beginning have had something to do my competency in math will do me on his piano, but to me it felt like very essential in the high school with art. For example, Galileo more good in the long run than flying away into another world where curriculum, there's one last point I discovered that the earth was not the studying music. everything is splendidly peaceful. would like to address. Remember center of the universe. He used In Japan, the people seem to be I guarantee that many teenagers when you learned that people more advanced than the people in the have this wonderful feeling but are perform better in school when they United States. They spend more time never able to follow through with have their lives balanced? I'm astronomy, and money on teaching necessary their dreams. Their parents want them referring to the health triangle which is subjects like math and science. I feel to have the best professions available. A special thank you which includes being condi basically a form that if we would spend more time and And that is great! But shouldn' t the to The Joffrey Ballet tioned mentally, physically and of visual art. The money developing curricula around teenagers be the ones to decide upon emotionally. of Chicago f or Japanese also use computers instead of dance and music, their own careers? Being a teenager is My classmates and I attend arts in their way then maybe we would be more in tune like being a blooming rose. When the providing free school from early morning to about 2 of life. They with today's electronic age. Just flower is ready to come out, it doesn't tickets to the o'clock in the afternoon in order to established a competing with Japan for the sake of know what to expect. The sunshine exercise our minds and prepare for first 50 replies different way of competing is not the point here. I just sprinkles its warmth and the rains college. After our last class. we acting and think we should use them as an nourish the thirsty rose. But what to our June practice for our challengin'g competi dancing in their example and teach our children happens when we take the rose to the essay tions and condition our minds. To dramas called subjects that will help them in the desert? The outcome is disastrous! release our worries and pressures, we writing Kabuki. future. The rose withers in the rays of sun sit down and feed our souls. That time contest. An has been I'm not trying to say that the arts are without any water. So you can see is put off only for ourselves. We clear around since not necessary. However, the arts will that teenagers' world cannot be an essential part of a high school our minds and explore our imagina before the idea of time was con only do a person good if they plan to satisfied with the warm reflections of education. Arts help many students tions and talents. By practicing such ceived. Nomads or other early take that road to a career. If a person studies. They have to be cooled and discover a hidden quality of creativity healthy lifestyles, we can be positive civilizations used art as a way of doesn't, what good are the arts for a refreshed by the rain. and talent. To learn about great artists that our youth will grow up to be a letting future generations know of person who wants to be a teacher or a Don't you agree? and their accomplishments, such as well-rounded, confident and expres their way of life and history. What scientist? Yes, they should be extra Another perspective of looking Van Gogh and Mozart, gives sive part of our community. right do we have to decide that an curricular activities, and a student at the arts is the phrase "express beginning artists a sense of relaxation My priority has always been and should have a choice if they want to yourself." I wanted to be a profes and one's mind begins to expand. always will be EDUCATION, no take them or not. sional pianist since I was 10 years old. Learning about arts may convert a doubt about it! But, if we want to I couldn' t realize this dream because shy and unpopular person into a become better scholars, we better play of financial circumstances. When l famous writer like Mark Twain. who spon::. and emerse ourselves in the finally had the chance to place my is an authentic American writer. arts. One won't work successfully lingers on the keys, I fell in love with Currently en:ry school known to without the other, just like a rose know that an will survive the idea of expressing myself through me in the United States has a won' t bloom without the sun and pre cnt and future obstacles as playing the prano. This possibility curriculum marts. E\en other water. it has in the past. came about when my school decided countries that are not economically to offer a piano cour;c as part of the Second Place stable have art programs in their T hird P lace curriculum. Maricela Castellon ·chools. Many famous artists have Irma Durarte I' vc al o concluded to take piano Benito Juarez sup ported them sci ves by using arts in Benito Juarez l esson ~ thi::. ~umm c r and my cmor their li ves. ~ u c h as the famous opera Do !think that the arts are an The hi gh school year. My srster, on the other hand, smger, Kathleen Battle. What better imponant part of a high school curriculum consrsts of plans to take Advanced Art next year way to learn your upcomrng profcs curriculum? Yes, I do bel ieve they arc man) hasrc '> U hjcc t~. from sron than rn !ugh ~c h oo l ? 6 NE JUNE 1996 Teens stopped by police need to
Tht 1iM11 io lhi< rtlu•o do"'' ,.~...,.;11 ~lltrl lh"t of G ITII 'o~mlion be more than just streetwise
B~ \larda Chatelain that the1r parents be mformed and request off1cer know you are not a consent a public or pnvate attorney. Ing party to the search. Stat "You can also call an ACLU counselor," tng th1s could Samuels says "We can't guarantee rep be resentation, but we could wor1< on your case on behalf of a class action su1t • The phone number for the local offtce of the ACLU IS (312) 201-9740. In fact, 11 was an court case de ACLU lawsurt filed velop. on behalf of Paul Jenkins, direc J a m e s tor of News Affrurs for the Youkhana that Chtcago Police Department, led to last says the llfiOOIS Appeftate Court made December's Many a bad dooSion 1n sinking down the crty·s well· h anti-gang lortenng ordmance. known _ 11 C icago teens "Harassment IS unfortunate," Jenkins 1, n 0 is are confronted with Pub 11c says, "but [the court's doosion) has had a Appel- police and law enforcement wtth at least negat1ve 1mpact. I a t e every day. Not many may be aware one known mem- There are not as many arrests as there Court rul- of their rights in such matters. ber of the Lalln Kings were before · he says. 'There has been a mg agamst f After bemg stopped by po- significant nse 1n cnme where there was Chtcago's ani!- Be aware 0 your hce Youkhana refused to be de- signlftcant drops msome communrtJes," he gang lottenng ord1- rights! tamed He later f1led surt With the rud of says. Without provid1ng speafics. ~~. h~W Eduor s 110/t'. Last December, 1n Samuelsalsoadvtsesthattfyou'restopped The Ll">~ 6: You IS a nt'~< feature rn :\ew Youf..hana vs the City of Ch1cago. the by police and told you are a suspect, don ttry E \ pr~ion £tpec/IO su fllCirt amc,ts 1ha1 state court ruled the anll-gang loitenng to talk yourself out of a Situation And dearty hup1v wnJ(fl/anJ\ arrr~hrsasa/anrnne:rt ordtnance unconstitutional. The case 1n- argumg wont help your sttuahon Also, don I 1ear's rJrllons >( ':'ie -.~ E.lpression volved Youkhana, who was observed m resiSt a search, Samuels says. S1mply letthe
Only 3 months in office, teen school bd. member faces another election
By Heather \1acDonald, Ken ~< ood Fractton says that many students want to see cleaner school bU1Id1ngs and more When Vanessa Fractton took off1ce 1n March, the half m11hon teens who make up the extracurncular actiVIties, but she Intends to make academ1cs her ma1n concern. Chicago Public Schools finally had a democratically elected student representative on "Somethtng needs to be done when grade schoolers aren't be1ng prepared for Mayor R1chard M. Daley's Reform Board of Trustees. h1gh school and graduatmg semors aren't ready for college," Fraction says "At Fraction, aJUnior at Harper, replaces Jerome Bailey, a semor at K1ng. Ba1ley was appotnted schools like Harper, whtch 1s on remedtatton, the s1tuat1on 1s pretty bad. I Intend to f1ll the rema1nder of the term of last year's representative, to make sure that my peers are getting at least an adequate LaKeisha Hamtlton. education." New Expression recently 1nterv1ewed Fract1on, who was (The school board places schools on "remediation" elected 1n a year when ensunng student representation was not based on low test scores. If schools fatl to show progress a simple process. w1th1n a spec1f1ed t1me, teachers and principals can be For the new Reform Board, student representation seems to replaced.) have been an afterthought. Early on, school board offtctals left A very act1ve student at Harper, Fract1on IS 1nvolved 1n students uncertain about what role, 1f any, teens would play 1n a number of actiVIties, 1nclud1ng Adopt-a-Freshman, the this year's Reform Board. At that time, the Super Board was College Club and the Rap and Theater team, as well as busy woo1ng the media w1th 1ts "qu1ck" progress and sconng be1ng secretary of Harper's student counc1l Th1s 1s FractiOn's points for Daley. Involving students 1n the process was slow second term as a Local School CounCil representative. gomg (see Sept./Oct. NE). Unlike her predecessor, Fractton does not have an For many students, the process of getting a voice on the school office at board headquarters. She was told board faced a setback due to the controvers1al1nvolvement of that there was a lack of off1ce space. Student Alliance, a Chtcago nonprofit assoc1at1on heavily Involved But that hasn't htndered her efforts to 1n the election of htgh school students to the Reform Board. communtcate wtth members of the In fact, the March electton, 1n whtch Fract1on emerged the l 'tmt'\\11 1 rcu rwn board, she says. w1nner, was JOintly coordinated by SA and the Super Board. "If I have a question But Fraction has had little t1me to make an 1mpact on school reform, s1nce school board or anything, I know I can call (Ch1ef rules call for another electton 1n June. Execut1ve Offtcer of Ch1 "I'm at a disadvantage only havtng been there a couple of months and then havmg to face cago Publ1c re-elect1on so soon," Fract1on says. "I'm domg the best that I can. Schools) Paul "Most of the sen1ors are too busy gett1ng prom and graduatton together [to be Vallas or (Board Presi concerned about school reform]," she says. "[And] a lot of the Local School Council dent) Gery Chico and they will representatives aren't co mtng to meetings or, 1f they do come, they aren't express1ng what hear me," she says. they really think."
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Contemplating my love for you Wonder Why~ Sitting arouncl thinking Wonclerinq if9'm in love 9 think fdOU are the sweetest in the worlcl When you're in pain,an~ One who makes me laugh One who makes me feel goocl as 91ie besicle fdOU Confuse~ of ~eath you're unclerstanclinq when fdOU listen to me Nothing else woulcl make me feel better than an~ Knowing that there's no one in fdOUr ltfe but me Never hacl anfdbOclfd like fdOU before ~yin g. the wa0 fdOU whisper beautifullfd in m0 ear softlfd sa0inq 91ove fdOU after we make love Do you cry or won~m~ why~ alwa0s thinking of fdOU while 0ou're making sure ever0thing's right with me When you cheate~, lie~ or stole ana when 9 speak of fdOU to m0 friencls thefd clon't see that this is much more than Di~ won~er why~ what it looks like you cry or everfdbOclfd's wrappecl up in their own problems When you mur~ere~ your family's soul 9 qat to let qo of some of m0 insecurities so 9 can be strong with fdOU Di~ won~er why~ lie arouncl ali night lonq with fdOU you cry or ana love you forever When you're at your last ~reath, Caronda }Vlorman when it's time to Reach perish an~ Reach where you can scratch. ~ie ' Cause we shouldn't look You trie~ to cry, any higher or any an~ to think YOU Dear David lower than we can. Or can we? ... won~ere~ I'm trying not to love you but I'm just not strong enough. If I do just the minimum When I try to think of other things, you creep into my mind. I will fall behind WHn I want to shout "It's not fair!" but who would hear me? Doing the maximum is going to get me somewhere, My shouts would only echo in my empty soul. or will it? llykicha Smith Your image haunts my dreams at night and I get so cold. Reach where you can The only one who can give me warmth is you. scratch. You don't have to love. I have enough love for the both of us. Please don't deny me. 'Cause someone always does more If you do, how will I live? or less than oneself. You 've already stolen my heart. Reac hing hig her tha n you can reach, you can s train something. Maria Ramos But who knows there's always a stool. But- Reach where you can scratch. Mykicha Smith
8 NE JUNE 1996 What is Celebrating New Expressions? The 1996 Celebrating New ~TIIy Expressions High Schools Arts C' Competition is produced by Youth Communication, the nonprofit publisher of New Expression . Funded by Kraft Foods, Inc. and other 1996 corporate funders, this program recognizes and rewards high school SSIEDNS artists while bringing their work to mass-media audiences through a partnership with the Chicago Sun HIGH SCHOOL ART COMPETITION Times. Finalists will be honored on June 20 at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Winners in each category I' '/ receive aS 1,000 U.S. Savings '/ bond for first place, a $500 ,'I I . U S Savings bond for second place, and a $200 U,S. Savings bond for third. Teachers of first place winners receive S100 . Finalists' work will be on display at the awards ceremony. -=-- What is New Expression? Distributed free-of-charge in more than 80 public and -- p nvate htgh schools monthly, --::::.: New Expression (eire 60,000) - - stands today as a completely - - - teen-driven newspaper read by 160,000 teens. New "Conversation With Myself' Expression is published by Youth Agnieszka Harrison Lakeview Communication, a Chicago nonprofit agency. Since 1976, Chicago teens producing New Expression have gained hands-on experience in the Ignorance is Bliss area of journalism, photography, Suzanna Boelter advertising sales, graphics, Morgan Park computers, and business Youth circle a mattered carpet management. Participants are as a chorus of video rips through the ari. primarily minority: 55 percent African The farmer takes a wife; tlw tone dead !> JOg a long American; 22 percent white; 17 and who did s teal the coooki<· from the cookH: jar'J ~aliva-soaked wrinkeld thumbs percent Hispanic; and 6 percent smack building block on bUJ idmg block Asian. as cootie covered kids plar tag, red-light-green-light, or mother, may I'? New Expression was the founding See jane, see Dick, see Spot leap from page to pagl'- cornerstone of a now international peanut butter and jelly, a lemonadr juice box, network of YC papers in cities such as apple, bruised bannana, or grapes squ1sh together in your mouth. Graham cracker smell tranquili;.ers, New York, Los Angeles, Washington as, laying down, afternoon ritual brings D.C., Atlanta, Boston and Son calm, peace, serenity. Francisco. Total estimated readership Ignorance is bliss. of this network is now c lose to one million teens.
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Our Motion and Melody Carolyn Burger Kenwood I twisted You turned I sang You screamed and we were silent. Our motion and music are ended. We stand in the center void of sound, waiting for rhytm, missing the harmony that we knew. I do not move toward Nor touch you. You do not ask Nor answer. We have left the melody. I dance You reel and we stand still. "Lallorona" I scream Narciso Carlos You shout Lane Tech and we are silent. Youth Communication and Kraft Foods, Inc. would like to congratulate this year's finalists:
Drawing' QPainting Photography: Video:rOJ Poetry:e Carolyn Burger Narciso Carlos Apolonio Bermudez Chavers, Johnson, Carolyn Burger Kenwood Lane Tech Farragut Sweeten, Robinson Kenwood Karoline Faber lnga Riley Browne Artur Burzykowski and Hall Suzanna Boelter Lane Tech Lane Tech Steinmetz Hirsch Morgan Park Agnieszka Harrison Roxanne Elden Daviea Bradley Ray Johnson Natalia Lakeview Lane Tech South Shore DuSable Cunningham Jessica Huston Beata Jankiewicz Ja-Juana Irving Robeson, Zafrir & Morgan Park Lane Tech Lane Tech South Shore Shumely Ronita Dailey Ida Crown jewish Kenwood Deatrice Moffett Matt Kleinman Tyrone Johnson Academy Arts of Living Lane Tech South Shore Brandy Grant Larry Thompson Morgan Park Sara Uinas Antonio Martinez Juan Lugo DuSable Arts of Living St. Rita Lane Tech Mary Kushiner Amanda Trenbeth Lane Tech Kia Pearson Marco Morales LaKeisha McGee Lane Tech Arts of Living Lane Tech South Shore Gloria Padilla Eric McConnell Benito juarez Rachel Rochelle Jones Briana Sampson DuSable Romanowskyj Lane Tech South Shore Eli Presser Lane Tech Maria Monarrez Whitney Young Deneakkah Moss Korvetta Spencer Benito juarez Sereno Wilson Bowen South Shore Antwoine Shepard Lakeview Marcelle Griffith Molly Whedbee Kenwood Bowen Kenwood Amanda Trenbeth Lane Tech
2 CNE JUNE 1996 Special thanks to: Raffle sponsors Bloom1ngda1e s "Wreck" Tiffany and Company Jewelers Inga Ril ey Browne WGN Radio Lane Tech Gibsons SteaK House The Ambassador West Hotel Hubbard Street Gn Ben & Jerry s Ice Cream Russum Waters Salon Frontera Gnl Jeffrey Ballet of Chicago LeVIne & LeVIne Merte Resl(ln Theatre Mulhplex S eppenwolf Theatre Second City Art lSI s Frame Service The Inn at Un1versrty Vilage Mark Grace The Cooking and Hosplla''iy Institute ofChciago
''reeling " Hooor Grand Ho e OeneaU,ah loss Bilge~,o,ater Bar and Gn 80II'c?r1 e Old Mr Benn s Rand Me a Lettuce Enterta n You Enterpnses "Personal Values" CNE Food Donors Deatrice Moffett Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba Arts of Living Hecky s Barbeque Ben & Jerrys CNE sponsors: Sa nt Germane Blackhawk Lodge Content in the Rain Ben Pao H-1 Blue Agave Natalia Cunningham Bank of America Corluccts Morgan Park CNE Beverage Donors Romano Brothers Asleep underneath a creamy black sea, Heublein speckled with sharp shiny white dots, Barton Beers, Corona Point Amber Ale bruised by the clouds. Art He was awakened from a frightful dream. James Watkins One he couldn't quite remember, David Cskisco Steve Musgrave yet one he'll never forget. (KRAFT) Tom Bachtell Intense, hazy, shadow filled vapors George Kloubo and clouds so dense that they produced a smoke screen. Doug Klauba Clouds, ten months pregnant with rain, occupied the sky, Mary Lampo yet no rain fell. Vince Camen KEMPER FUND Randy Fiat A low thunderous echo came from these clouds. Herbert Mlgdoll The savor of anticipation engulfed his throat. Tad Siragusa But disappointment filled his soul; Deborah Fletcher the raindrops never did fall. Laura Lee Burch That morning, he awoke to the tapping of the rain, Martha Jonot1a Jock Higgins and smiled. Chrts Thomas Darkness gone ... Laurie Rubin joy saturated his soul. JUNE 1996 CNE 3 A special thank you for the Chicago high school A Sham teachers who helped make this year's event possible: Antwoine Shepard Kenwood Vicki Milewski. DuSable Rosa Marquez. Benito Juarez Ms. Kahan. Ida Crown Jewish Academy I doubt not that there is a Hell, Donald Asher. Arts of Living A place where all is not well, Miriam Socoloff. Lake View With lakes upon lakes of liquid fire, Danae Voutiritsas. Anne Greaney, Byron Jones. David That sear and burn Man's desire. Schlicting, Dismas Rotta. Lane Tech Elaine Foin, Bowen And you ask what do I make of this place? Marqurete Johnson-Stephens, Benito Juarez With its smoky smell and soot on my face. Carol Conway. Morgan Park This is a land where I obviously don't want to be. Eileen Brusek. Whitney Young Therefore I should change the ways of me. Beverly Krall, Deborah Levinson, Fredrick Spaulding. Kenwood But to go about, and really change your way. Laima Panek, Fred Brown and Mrs. Weissler of Hirsch That is such an easy thing to say. Carolyn Petry, South Shore A commitment too expensive for me to make. Dennis Pratt. Farragut I would rahter be real than be a Sunday Christian fake. Impiety to some, a reality to me. ACHE (estranged) Mary Kushiner Lane Tech
ACHE (estranged) I ache for him, as I ache to stand upon the white sand beside the ocean, being lulled to slepp by the deep murmuring of the waves, instead of the deep murmuring of the refrigerator. I ache for him, as I ached to change my ways, my words, my past earsing those painful memories, uttering those unspoken thoughts I suppressed for fear ... instead of producing enless tears of regret. I ache for him, as I ache for the truth that transcends shallow substitutes pursued blindly by many... I ache for him, instead of knowing it is within my reach, and thinking my arm grows shorter. I ache for him, but not to the point of killing myself. "Store Front" K.ia Pearson I ache for him, Arts of Living Yet, am satisfied for the moment, when his face is in my mind, his words in my ear, and his torch on my hand, Before I wake up.
Just Take It Slow As each day brought Through the corners of For now I have nothing. Brandy Grant JOY! the gloss. I'm all alone. Morgan Park Smelling its fragrance When One day I Friend, listen to me, Impelled to enhance discovered Do not empty your glass. I once tasted life, They beauty and radiance My time had passed! Go with God to received Wine to my lips. Of life's second chance. The cup was empty, your second chance. Each day conveyed God had always given me Nothing remained. He annoints us with oil, More sustained sips. A second sip; From that day on Our cups overflow, Never was it sour, Yet, after the third or fouth Everything changed. Pay attention to this, In my midnight hour, J took hit after hit. I wish that I'd sipped it, "Just take it slow!" But delectable and savory Staggering and stumbling Or taken it slow, 4 CNE JUNE 1996 CNE Committee Carrie Banks Tina Battle Bill Brooks Kelsy Cothern Carol Crowdus The Beat Nancy Dieckman Susanna Duff Donna Hunter Goes On John Jonson Amanda Trenbeth Jim Juliano Lane Tech Judy Kaminsky Diane Lynn Amy Lorms I shall ne er get over my Bob McKenny utter disappointment in "Put 'em up" Andrea Peterson being born Korvetta Spencer Andrea Schoenhoff to late sixty years a South Shore CNE Co-Chairs junior "A Taurus Night" to a generation of Marcelle Griffith Helen Murphy - Jones Dimitra Tasiouvas ingenious lunatics Bowen A generation where my soul walks endlessly searching for it's body A generation that knew everything Their fathers voice Fading into a sea Of explotations Singing to idiots he never meant to meet To touch Singing in a sad restless voice of enlightment Desperately painting his thoughts With an eloquent tongue of sorrow Licking the tip of my anxious ear He yearns to touch people, me Yet he so fears rejection I love him so, that I hate him "Hot? The Presures of Life" "Life's Gamble" For living before me Matt Kl einman Marco Morales For nothing at all Lane Tech Lane Tech The ultimate beauty in every sense In his sea of obscurity A lonely and damned Loving it child Happily drinking in his Mirrors Perplexed and Searching for his mother confusion tangled in her course Ronita Dailey Lost in space reaching for her breasts Making it my own Kenwood To drink the arm I only long to caress his I peer at a face reassuring milk shinky black har I gaze into face Thirsting for acceptance as he rests his weary Ripening and revealing, a So damp from the dew of the chilling like new autumn days Living for lack of a better head in my waiting lap springtime of life thing to do Telling him it will all be Creasing and wrinkling Eyes so tawny; heart so like a freshy washed sheet Yet crossing oceans of all right jubliant time to be with me Shamefully lying lackening, Arms snake, dragging not quick in her haste To sing to me in the For he knows to much whirl, wind all over the place lonely hours of the dawn for his soul to smile And reassure my doubts Knows to much to ever I glance at a face I glare at a face Ancient hair, fleecy and sih·er Only to leave me with a rest Who has discovered the turn of the Knows to much to ever like new fallen snow presence of summer youth Skin so crinkly, rugged, transcendental page die. She's trapped in a maze With rocks tied to my and rumply of fog and haze Now at the crown of feet I helpless sink deeper her race JUNE 1996 CNE 5 1996 CNE JUDGES Youth Communication and its sponsors would like to extend heartfelt thanks to the following judges for the time and effort they put into selecting Chicago's finest teen talents. Amy Theobald. lola Liberman Gallery JoeL. Johnson. Pheerlis Designworks Kathleen McCarthy. Museum of Contemporary Art Tom Linden. Crain's Chicago Business Julie Hull . Crain's Chicago Business Robert Sengstacke. Fine-Art Photojoumalsim Paul Mainor. Paul Mainor Studio, Ltd. Kai EI'Zabar, N'Digo Magapaper Adolfo Mendez. Youth Communication Ayanna M. U'Dongo. Video Databank-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Dissipating the effigy" Juan Lugo -I Lane Tech
~ · , Many thanks to our friends and supporters who make New Expression possible:
The Board of Directors ACLU AT&T Arthur Andersen/ Andersen Consulting Avenor America, Inc. William C. Bannerman Foundation Chas. A Levy & Company The Chicago Community Trust Chicago Tribune Foundation CityArts City of Chicago Department of "My Story" Cultural Affairs, Gallery 37 Sara Uinas Freedom Forum Arts of Living GATX Corporation Household International Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Shattered pieces of a glass Kraft Foods Inc. Broken Pieces Cutting deep, sharp wounds The John D. and Catherine T. Gloria E. Padilla A female needing a soul MacArthur Foundation Benito juarez A male imparting his hurt Marshall Field's The Nalco Foundation Worthless pieces of a stone Lonely, desolate, and hopeless The Northern Trust Company Down a river run leaf Polk Bros. Foundation Broken pieces of a heart Swaying through the autumn Walgreens In an empty body flow wind WPWR-TV Channel 50 Cold, spilling, shattered heart Foundation Small, cold hands Just about to stop its beat Childless experience Spilling blood- Sadness of a heart Youth Communication Youth Comunication/ Adult Staff Chicago Center Executive Director Bill Brooks 1995-1996 Editorial Advisor Board of Directors Adolfo Mendez Officers Copy Editor MargaretAnn Cross President Graphics Director William (Dol) Frost Eric J . Wiliams Photography Director Immediate Past President Ramses del Pinto Danta Deborah L. DeHaas Advertising Director Vice President Greg E. McClain Helen Murphy Jones Business Manager Diane Lynn Treasurer Director of Development Marla Kilpatrick Eddie L. Robinson Secretary Layton E. Olson Assistant Secretary Helen Schubert General Directors Philip Costello Mary Dedinsky Jean Doyle Kai El ' Zabar Paula Eubanks Bill Haljun John B. Johnson Claude Peck HaNey K. Porchia Dimitra Tasiouras Untitled Craig Taylor Antonio Martinez Youth Advisor St. Rita Heather MacDonald. Kenwood Honorary Directors Jose Chapa His Only Word Dick Ciccone Eli Presser Fred Eychaner Whitney Young Clarence Page Charles Price Named as Eli he Robert Regan lives as a stubborn, intellectual, confused, near Heidi Schultz defeated, romantic. Gloria Scoby Of sibliings from birth he has none, Yet from a dark life a new one comes, An ally sister is Pascha, joined from another line.
Sadness soothed by hope - animals, music, books, three loves, Which provided another sid.
Macabre, loss, and existential dread shall never prevail Monotony has come, he feels lost and drifting. But when this befalls him he then realizes that his hopes of a new world, end of ignorance, Renaissance could some day exist. "A Child Dressed in Forgiveness" He's live all of his life in Chicago, Rochelle Jones A city of conflicting cause,. Lane Tech His name, Presser, is the last of his family.
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out to rap fans of today. That doesn't MC Ren The Villain In Block (RIIIhless) bother listening to th1 s album This IS The Charlie Hunter Quartet By YlaJ11 Ousley, Whitney Young mean this album is without it mediocre Rating: 1 one CD that you should av01d listening Ready ... SeL..SIUJngo! (Capitol) Rating:4 Mac Mall Untouchable (Relativity) t.racks. Some of the songs have me sages If I had to use one word to de cribe this to if at all possible. This CD receives a If you are a jazz fan, I recommend that Rating: 3 that are either t.rivial or hard to album, it would be weak. If MC Ren has rating of one, and a prayer that MC Ren you listen to this CD. Jt will hit your ear On his latest album. "Untouchable." understand. Some of the t.racks could also any kind of rap skills, he doe n't exhibit gets some skills by the time he records like sun hine on a flower. I got the same Mac Mall serves up some pretty decent stand to be re-engineered. However, this them on his late t album, 'ihe Villain In his next album. (Do you th1nk that feeling listening to this disc as when I rhymes and nice beats. Mall's album is is a good album that I would recommend Black." If you're looking for a solid rap reuniting NW A will bring back any of listened to The Oscar Peterson Tno. Th1s influenced by Old School rap. but the to rap fans. especially those of the Old album that you can really get mto, don't his former kills?) quartet offers a solid Jazz expenence. beats and some of the lyric will reach School.
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Ere,.·one kn011S that 11 order to hare a good parry, you need a grod DJ There's a HO certain an to "DJmg a parry. Anyolll' cm1 play aje11 records, bwu taJ.n talent to kno11 h01r to spin records so tluu no ont'IS holding A SAFE, FUN SPACE FOR up the 1mll. GAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL YOUTH Four local DJs 1rhn f'O! us tlus talent are • DROP-IN CENTER DJ Ch1p, DJ Deeon. DJ \filton and DJ • DISCUS ION GROUP Sluga. !\lew Expression rca nth mten·ie11 ed • ACTIVITIES • EDUCATION AND OUTREACH DJ Sluga and DJ Deeon. • HIV-POSITIVE SUPPORT GROUP NE: How old v.ere }OU \\hen you tatted • PARENT/YOUTH SUPPORT GROUP DJing? What you need to Slugo: I was aboutl3 or 14. 961 MONTANA ST. - CHICAGO, IL Deeon: 15 NEW SOUTHSIDE DROP-IN know to get where NE: Has anything embarras~mg ever 3739 S. INDIANA happened to you on a job 'l CALL 472-6469 (DAY) OR 929-HELP (6-10 PM) you want to go Slugo: I fell off the stage one ume. 472-6469 EXT. 414 (YOUTH ERVICES INFO. LINE) (Laughter) Everyone v.as rolhn. My w1fe 327-5381 ('ITD FOR HEARING IMPAIRED> At Northwestern Business College, our programs was crackm' up. 11 wa-; funny to her provide the preparation you need to start your NE: Are there any ttungs that you d1shke career in the time you want. about being a DJ? Deeon: People who con~tantly request 1 1 • Only take courses relevant to your major. songs. Dora La Couture Slugo: Yeah. that'' nagging. Also. the long • Get your degree tn under two years. hours. I don't like C'd!T)'Jng the equipment • Small classes. el!her. Cotillion :C Fashion • Compettttve tuitton. NE: What makes you d1fferem from other Consultant DJ s'~ Flower Girl • Flextble course schedules. Deeon: We got that lov.-end Oava Dresses :C Prom • Day and eventng classes. Slugo: Yeah, we don't care v.hat we play. Gowns NE: Do you do anythmg m your \pare t1me Rental • Over 90% JOb placement success. that mi ght surprise your fan~? Available c( Custom • Lifetime career counseling. Slugo: (Laughter) We babysit. all of us Design babys11. We also work Well. l work. Deeon Full Figure doesn't want to work (\1ore laughter) Women ~'f Sewing NE: On that note, 1~ there anythmg you All Sizes Instruction Northwestern want to let your fan~ know? BUSINESS COLLEGE Deeon: Yeah. Pracuce \afe ~x. St.rap up before you h1t. What you need to knou· Slugo: I like that. Also, we want to thank 10% OFF BIUUES AND WITH TillS BJUDESMAIDS Chicago Campus: Hickory Hills Campus: everyone for thw ~uppo rt , and let them GOWNS ANI) OTHER 4829 North Lipps Avenue 8020 West 8;"th Street know that they can be lookm g out for our AD l S ..~ RVICES Chicago, IL 60630 Hickory Hills, IL 60457 tape\ and CDs in stores soon. 800-396-5613 800-682-9113 NE: Do you have any words of wi'idom for a\pinng DJs? 8246 s. Klmbork 1-80o-894-n222 374-8863 Slugo: Buy your own \tuff. Pay your dues, get your own eq Uipment and get your own -...... [J]l]IL..------.w ...... - t.______. lllpes. lfelp vour~lf. JUNE 1996 NE 9 Hey! That summer weather is definitely here. Time to throw on some cool outfits. But since this is the Windy City, you have to have a versatile summer wardrobe that includes shorts and T-shirts as well as sun pants and jackets.
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By Alexand ria Morris, Whitney Young shoots at your favorite hangouts, like Navy open to new ideas. Sty/in' is the fou ndation of Pier, Rock & Roll McDonald's and Planet my career. We've also benefited fro m the As a fashion writer for New Expression, I Holl ywood. input of professional fash ion writers at the interview people in the fashion industry and Being part of the fashion staff has Chicago Tribune and Sun- Times. spot the latest trends. The Sty/in' staff has provided me with skills in professional The NE fashion staff is always looking fo r done various photo shoots at stores that you fields such as journalism and public new talent. We need models, photographers love, from chic and casual (like Lerner New relations. These skills can be used in the and fash ion writers. If you are interested in York, Contempo and Eddie Baur) to the everyday world. Shena Ponder, the director bei'ng part of next year's fashion staff, cal l us Alex Morris ethnic Window to Africa. We've done of fashion, and other advisors are always at (3 12) 641- NEWS.
10 NE JUNE 1996 Models attend Whitney Young. They are: Susan Edwards, Yaasiel Davis, Mike Velasquez, Natalia Williams, Juliana Anyanwu, Troy Brice and Alicia Burnett
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I11 JUNE 1996 NE 11 ------·-- ~ Models day out It's the end of the school year for Sty lin' and we all want to send our readers off with a great promise of more news in fashion next year. Hopefully, with your help we'll be able to bring you more of Sty lin'! If you're interested in being part of our exclusive "Models Inc." team, call Shena Ponder at New Ex pression at (312) 641-6397. On that note, have a great summer and peep some of our models kicking back on a hot summer day. 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TaJ (Tamara J oh n~o n ) and Lelee (Leanne Lyon ) began mgmg m church at The New York Crty fly gtrls have done tt agam by releastng a ) OUng age. Then thetr fonnauon of ·New Begtnntng· on the RCAIBMG label and rt s looking to Female Edtli on. a female re~pon~e to ·go, break the noted sophomore Jtnx that has clatmed many teen group New Etlition. ~as born dunng female groups before. grade 'ichool. On thts album, Coko, Tal and Lelee show thetr creatJve The e :20- omething women really dtd side as executiVe producers and co-wnters They worked have fat th m a future mustc career after .,.,,th producers Bnan Morgan, who v.orked on the first album ~ndmg a demo tape to RCA Records and along wrth Daryl Stmmons a'ld A!star The eptunes and later tgnmg ~ ith the label. A' a re"ult. the rapper Enck Sermon of EPMD JUS! to name a few St te rs Wnh V01ces (or S\VV. for 'hort ) The album's ftrst stngte You re the One," IS a funky dance dtd have great succes. \\hen thctr douhle track, and one of two sensabonaJ songs co-wntten by Coko platmum debuL " It's About Time:· and Tat. released in 199:2. Thts album real!) . hO\\ed On and an: a car txlmpm dance tune that features the world thetr own st~ lc of mi xmg go. peV "Kcv. Bq!mnmg" m contra\tlO the lir I, UJ r And raJ note .... "L clce .md I \.\ere not Sermon, and the laJd-back sty' ngs cJ !hats What mHere soul-fill ed harmonte'- along~ ith hip-hop. ay~ . ~1 o't I' gO<.XI · dctmncly. th1' alhum .111 read;. (to '-tng lead) JU'l ~ct, hultl \\.t' a For' (With Butterfly, from the Digable Planets) are 1\Jst some treetv.tsc bca~ Dunng tht\ time tho: girl-. The dtllcrcn.:-c lll\:l\\Cen the Ju-..t OTll' .md th1" l~>t ol I un dot ng ll .. ot the last songs you 'hill hear. made n btg wtth Top 10 hit~ that mcludc one]1.., the lactthat \\C lud more comrol OH'r Dc.thng \\llh ... uccc,.., h.t, ll\:cn tun The baflads on thiS a.bum are gomg to make a lot of 'T m So lnto You:· "Right Here." "Weak.'' lhl' [lfOJCd." ·llllmc' '("I h' ll ll' ')I taf!Hl£ lO h11 ltsteners very excted The warm and appea ng soul styles "Anythmg" .md "Dov.mcmn .. ~o" m fh.: group maLic ure till" alhum "a' \\h,tt u' nov., .mJ tlu..,. Ihum 1, -.t;mmg to hal appear on "Wha:cha eed" (another song co-wmten by 1996. Coko. TaJ and Lelec arc bnnging out TaJ ... um' up a a·· ontrollcd-b~- \\ V-t)pc' h)O\\ up," l.cln.• 1\ • C ko s;t;.s 'u c ' Cc o and TaD. 'You Are My Love: Fine Time· and "Use a ne\\ look and a \Cf) tmproved ~und alhum " Kot on!~ J1d th~) -.enc, C\L' Ull\C has luJ.tll) "dJ\\ ned on her" nd th.tt shc Your Heart' shovvthat once you stan DlaYJng this CD, you"~· I All thi~ can be seen and heard on their nev. . pr SPEND For Diversity ... SUMMER IN THE CITY at r~f1 4 Innovation ... Jtlflf.U~O JttDIDI\ Empowerment through Education. rdRTHE~~ ~TS Young Chicago Authors The Choice Is Summer courses in Creat ive Writing, Film Studies. and • Are )OU a high 'chool frc,hman 11 ho ltkes to 11 rite 1 more f or youth now in grades 6 -11. Call for brochure: • Would you ltkc lo dc1ciOp lhl\ "riling talent 1n 11eckl) (312) 421 -0202 . claNs for the Ia~! three years ol high school! • Would you lt kc to usc your IHiling tn commumty 'mice prnJCCI\ ! 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Opens June 7. changed in order to improve the way things have ,..,-----.."' against each other in the playoffs but were elimi- "Th e Cable G uy"- Jim Carrey stars been running in recent years. Some of it is nated by the eventual contenders for the title as an overeager cable installer who after offer needed. and some of it will be a deteriment to (Julian and Harper). ing cable subscriber Matthew Broderick ("War the future success of prep sports in Chicago • The Red-West continued to be the most Games," "Project X") free chan nels, goes on a and in Illinois. ~~~~~f=: entertaining section tn boys' and girls' wild roller coaster ride at Broderick's ex Some of the rivalries in football are no basketball. Westinghouse and pense. Opens June 14. more. Due to the Public League's lack- Marshall won the titles in their re- "The Nutty Professor" luster record tn the state playoffs, the spective sports. Eddie Murphy stars as the overweight pro coaches and administrators have re- • Controversy neverseemed to leave fessor Sherman Klump, who in an attempt to aligned the conferences to encour- us as we pondered what went wrong wi n the beaullful chemist Carla Purdy, played by Pinkett ("A Different age tougher competition. This may be in the Ronnie Fields case and the Larry World," "Jason·s Lyric"), develops a potion that changes his life, and pants size. the answer, but we'll miss those rivalries Jackson case. (Is it coincidence that Opens June 28. from yesteryear. If you don't believe thised both these guys are at Farragut?) "Striptease"-Demi Moore stars as a single mother fighting for custody of move will make the teams better, just ' In good news, Ronnie Fields, Ayinde her daughter who moonlights as an exotic dancer to get money for a court appeal. look to the baseball restructuring that Avery and Jimmie Sanders are going to Burt Reynolds and Armand Assante co-star. Out this month. happened last year and its results this year. 0 play college ball at DePaul for coach Joey ''The Fan"-Wesley Snipes stars as Bobby Rayburn, a celebrity whose life There is hope. Meyer (way to go!). is turned upside down while being stalked by obsessed fan Gil Renard, played by Also, there will be some changes in the city's and • Bowen surprised everybody by making it to the final Robert DeNiro. Ellen Barkin ('"The Big Easy," "Bad Company'') also stars. Opens state'stransferpolicy. We'llhopefullynolongersee four in boys' basketball and by almost defeating July 26. cases like those of Barron Thelman, Leonard Miles Farragut to advance to the finals. " The Ad ventu res of Pinocchio" -A live-action movie based on the and, of course, Larry Jackson. Policy adjustments • The same can be said to about Hyde Park in girls' famous children's story. "Home Improvement's" Johnathon Taylor Thomas plays are being made that would make a player ineligible basketball. Pinocchio, and Academy Award winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood) plays Gepeno. Opens July 26. for the remainder of the school year if they transfer ·The Mustangs of Morgan Park three-pealed in girls' to another school in the middle of the year and are track and field due to their entire team effort, not just "The Crow: City of Angels"--Sequeltothe 1994blockbusterstarring facing disciplinary action at the school that they're individual performances alone. the late Brandon Lee. Newcomer Vincent Perez plays the new Crow. Mia Kirshner ("Murder ln the First") co-stars as Sarah. Opens August 2. transferring from. (Sorry, fellas, even Dennis Rod- As the weather gets warmer and people start man learned you can't easily get away with harass- wearing less, it only means that the school year is Also due out this summer is a sequel to the " Brady Bunch M ovie," ing a coach.) over and it is time to give this thing a rest. Maybe next "The Stupid s," starring Tom Arnold, due out in August. 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