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Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection April 1985 New Expression: April 1985 (Volume 9, Issue3) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "New Expression: April 1985 (Volume 9, Issue3)" (1985). New Expression. 65. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/65 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. The Magazine of ~outh Communication .................~ Vol. 9, No.3 April, 1985 Is there a quick and easy m1x• for a diploma? Some Chicago teens are opting to pay for high school diplomas that they can earn in 14 weeks. More and more of these "fast diploma" schools are cropping up in Chicago. Why do the "fast diploma" schools appear to be more attractive than the GED programs, even though the GED is accepted by more colleges? Ronda Crawford talked to college admission officers, military services, and alumni of these schools to test the validity of their diplomas. Photo by Carla Mclean Also Inside • It's prom time! A team of • New Expression makes three reporters answer a national appearance in questions on formal People Magazine. Read etiquette, transportation, the Entertainment Beat on and formal wear. The story Page 14. starts on page 8. • Teens smoking clove cigarettes may be acting as • The summer job race is laboratory rats for medical on. To be first at the fi nish science. Read Glenyse line, read the job senes on Thompson's story in Inside page 4. Track. Cover usa by spacial permiSSion of Time Inc: (C) 1985 Inside Track · Youth Comm. gone As of March 31, the Illinois Commis­ will have "the same responsibilities we sion on Children was offically canned. had,but they'll have fewer resources to The Commission has been responsi­ work with." If this bill is passed, it will ble for laws to protect abused children take effect July 1. and to revise the Juvenile Court Acts, The other movement by Illinois which set up procedures to handle de­ Senator Phil Rock of Oak Park would linquency. Last year the Commission make the Illinois Council on Youth one of studied the problems leading to teen his agencies. He is fighting to make the suicide and they helped pass a bill to Council on Youth, which was a part of protect neglected and runaway children. the former Commission on Children, one But there is still hope. ~Two hopeful of the Governor's agencies. If this does movements to revive youth representa­ not work, he will keep it alive as one of Cloves: a deadly puff tion in the state capitol have begun since his agencies. New Expression's report in February. Former Commissioner Simionson ex­ The sale of clove cigarettes among aroma. One movement by Illinois House pressed gratitude to New Expression teens in Chicago is booming according Even though the aroma and taste may Speaker Madigan and Senate Minority readers who read our editorial in the to local tobacco dealers. But the teens be tempting, the cigarette carries a po­ Leader Daniels would establish seven November/December, 1984 issue and who are switching from the tars and tentially deadly poison. Cloves is a spice citizen councils, one of which will serve wrote letters to the Governor, which nicotine of tobacco to the tars, nicotine which when smoked produces eugenol, the same purpose as the Commission showed that teens did care. The Com­ and eugenol in cloves cigarettes may be a natural anasthetic. When eugenol is on Children did. According to the former mission thanks those of you who wrote jumping from the frying pan into the fire. inhaled it produces an allergic reaction, director of the Commission on Children, in, and so do we. Dr. Frederick Schecter, a cardiovas­ usually an inflammation of the lungs. Donna Simionson, the citizen councils Charles Smoot cular surgeon in West Anaheim, Califor­ Clove cigarettes, originally from In­ nia, attributes the death of 17-year-old donesia, have become popular in the Tim Crislaw to cloves cigarettes. Ac­ U.S. over the past two years under the cording to a Youth News Service Special package names of Kuta, DJarum and Report, Schecter credits Crislaw's death JaKarta. "Two years ago the 17-to-20- A home to run to to lung inflammation caused by clove years-olds began coming in and buying • • • poisoning. clove cigarettes,"says Paulette Belt, In September, a New Expression 18. Minors-create a special problem for Timothy Armour, a senior at Mendel, clerk at Monroe Cigar Store. "Now the story, "New laws protect 'throwaway' those who operate shelters because says he stopped smoking tobacco and 14-year-olds and up are buying families," reported that a growing minors are not considered persons who started smoking cloves because he dis­ them,"she says. A spokesperson for a number of Chicago teens are put out of can choose their own dwelling place, like the taste of tobacco. "And Jakarta citywide tobacco distributor claims that their homes because of alienation be­ and so the operators are expected to call gives me a similar high to marijuana but business is booming with teen sales. tween parent and child. the police rather than give a teen over­ for a cheaper price," he said. Dr. Schecter considers this new gen­ Since then, a major study conducted night shelter. Taste seems to be the main reason eration of teen clove-smokers as guinea by the Chicago Coalition for the Home­ If teens are out of a home, they have that teens are switching. Six of the ten pigs for medical science. He and other less points out that there is a shortage of two places to call. They can call Tran­ teens we interviewed indicated that they doctors maintain that the effects of youth services in Chicago and claims sitional Living Services, located at 3179 dislike the taste of tobacco and were cloves are just now r>eing tested in a lab, that child service agencies are indiffer­ N. Broadway, at their 24-hour number, happy to find a better tasting substitute. while at the same time teens are testing ent to the needs of homeless youth. 883-0052. Or they can also call Metro­ Three others said they smoked them for them in their bodies. In the Chicago-area, there are about Help at 1-800-621-4000. This is also a the marijuana-like high, and one said Glenyse Thompson 4,000 homeless youth under the age of 24-hour number. she smoked cloves because of the Charles Smoot Master 'B1nhurst College Academy 8. of Driving "CHOOSING YOUR COLLEGE" GET YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE FAST An Open House for High School Juniors, 15-16 & 17 • Courses start every few days their parents and friends • Get permit at start of course • Day, eve, weekend lessons • REGISTE R BY PHONE • Action on Blue slips Call Now!!! Saturday, May I I, 1985 489-4554 9:00AM- 12:00 Noon MABSHALL 1633 N. Damen College Union Building Photographers 162 N. 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Please call us at (312) 279-4100, EXT. 486. 8/10 color We can also match you to Portrait, from a the right college. selection of proofs, 'Elmhurst College Free applications (Specify 190 Prospect to all Seniors from any high school interests) Elmhurst, IL 60126 Marshall Photo does For more information not service. Offer please call 312-753·9461 expires May 18, 1988. D New Expression April 1985 T- Teens pay schools for 'fast diploma' By Ronda Crawford able, but they will not accept dip­ personnel come from accredited lomas from such non-accredited high schools and the rest come Get a high school diploma in 14 high schools as Ellis, Mays or through GED. "There are no ex­ weeks for $650! Colonial Prep. ceptions to my knowledge," he That promise is very attractive Sue Crook of the admissions said. to an 18-year-old who is short five office at Mundelein College said Despite the risk that the diploma credits for graduation. It's very at­ that she had never had anyone is unacceptable to some colleges tractive to a 17-year-old mother apply from Cosmopolitan, so the and to all branches of the military, who dropped out of school to have college had not formed a policy. students we interviewed prefer to a baby. "We would have to evaluate each think of themselves with a It's so attractive that teens case individually as it came up," " Cosmo" diploma rather than a aren't asking questions about the she said.

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