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The Magazine of ~outh Communication ................~ Volume 10, No. 1 January, 1986 Adults: Do they view today's teens as unfit employees? Reporter Kathy Nash surveyed 90 adults to find out whether they stereotype today's teens as bumbling, unintelligent employees who haven't learned their math and English. She asked if they think of teens as a sexually immoral generation. As a suicidal generation. As a socially uninvolved generation. She also surveyed 90 teens about these same four stereotypes about teens. Who's more negative? Read her story on Page 5 to find out. You may be surprised. Also Inside • Teens across the city are concerned about AIDS. At one high school, guards appeared at the doors to keep students inside after an AI OS rumor spread through the school. Read Lisa Ferguson's story on Page 7. • Will high school students promise to abstain from drugs, sex, gangs and pop music for financial rewards? DuSable students have been offered this challenge, and so far, 988 students have signed up. Brenda Legrone's story appears on Page 2. • "Young Chicago ' is back' See Page ~ I nside Track . · Photo by Brent lbata Teens get pay for 'good conduct' Students at DuSable had just become " The teachers can help with the $10 or $15 a week. The money will be acquainted with their controversial evaluation of the first four guidelines placed in a high-interest savings ac­ medical clinic in November when they (about grades and class attendance), count until the student's graduation from were presented with another new pro­ but for the last six guidelines we are DuSable. The participants in this will be gram that is aimed at reducing preg­ planning to form student share and care encouraged to leave the money in their nancy and drop-outs and improving the groups," says Minister Velma accounts until after they've finished col­ students' success rate. Thompson, the Administrative Assistant lege, but they are free to use the money Over 988 students at DuSable have to Reverend T. L. Barrett, founder of he however they wish. already s1gned-up for The Life Enrich­ program. Although the freshmen are the only ment Program, which will make current The share and care groups are like students who have sponsors right now, freshmen eligible for over $3,000 by the support groups that give encourage­ they are not the only students who will be time they graduate ment and guidance to students who may rewarded. This year, every DuSable In order to be a member of the Life be having problems with the guidelines. senior will receive a gift at graduation. Ennchment Program the students must " Student are instructed about how to The gift could be a car, a radio, a watch adhere to certain guidelines. They must cor.duct and discipline themselves," or a similar gift. The more-valued gifts go have ·c· averages, have good atten­ Thompson said. to the top students and after the top stu­ dance. snow up for class on time, join a In addition to falling in line with these dents are taken care of, there will be a spec1al organization that gives support guidelines, each student is required to general drawing. to new students in the program, abstain spend two hours a week with their finan­ The Life Enrichment Program was from act1ve sexual1ty, drugs and gangs, cial sponsors and take courses m money started as a result of the Reverend T.L. listen to classical and jazz music and be management. Barrett's concern over the public re­ sp1ntual The gUideline about spirituality " I really don't think any of my fn ends sponse to the new medical clinic at IS opt1onal. pa1d attent1on to the Program, but I stop­ DuSable. "He thought that the idea was None of the students who have signed ped and listened because I thought 1t good, but that it was not enough," sa1d up understand yet how they will be was great," says Enc Hune, a DuSable Thompson. The purpose of th1s program evaluated - espec1ally about the sophomore. " I think college is a part of is not only to decrease the drop-out and Former Julian cheerleader Thomas Harmon gangs, sex, drugs and mus1c. Organiz­ life and that is my main goal, but I signed pregnancy rate but mainly to " inspire ers of the program from the Life Center up for diSCiplinary reasons. I think 1t will students to be success minded," she Church of Un1versal Awareness are still help me d1sciplme myself." sa1d. Cheerleader considering how to conduct these Already, over 200 businesspersons evaluations. have agreed to sponsor a student at $5, Brendalyn Legrone claims sexual bias New wonder drug cures acne Julian High School's Thomas Har­ mon, the school's first and only male Sam Marlin was desperate to stop the started to peal, itch and erupt with sores. that the patient has not tried everything cheerleader, was removed from the acne sores that covered his face. "I had I was hot dunng the first days, but the yet. There are safer drugs that have an squad in September, and Harmon is to get the stuff off my face," he said. doctor told me that this can happen with equal effect to accutane. Safe is better." claiming"sexual discrimination" in that "When I heard that doctors were pre­ any maJOr drug." Normally an "absolutely necessary" decision. scribmg a new m1racle drug called ac­ Dermatologists see the drug accutane case would only arise from a severe Harmon, 17, a junior at Julian, had cutane, I asked our family phys1cian to as a last resort because the drug is so case of cystic acne. Although 20 percent been on the squad for two years and had g1ve me a prescnption. I had already new that med1cal science still has a lot to of all teens suffer from acne, only 0.6 already been picked to be on the squad g1ven up on my dermatologist."' learn about the long-term effects from percent suffer from cystic acne as Sam for the 1985-86 season. When he came That was two years ago when Sam using the drug. But it's not easy for der­ does. back to school in September, Melvina was a freshman at Whitney Young. matologists to convince a desperate Acne is caused by a male hormone in Cambric, Girls Athletic Director and Today Sam is free of acne after using teenager to play it safe. males and females that is released dur­ cheerleader sponsor at Julian, told him two bottles of accutane (60 tablets) for Dr. Nathania! Morgan of the Morgan ing puberty. This causes the production that he was no longer on the squad. Said over 10 months. He wasn't free of the bill Park Medical Center finds that patients of oil glands of the skin. The hormone Cambric,"! took him off of the squad be­ however. The two bottles he used cost expect a drug to do exactly what it's sup­ stimulates the top layers of skin, which cause of his irresponsibility, and not $55 each. The precautionary treaments posed to do and nothing more. "Sure block the oils from flowing freely. This giving a reason for not going to camp." and lab fees totaled about $3000. they're satisfied! The acne is gone! But causes plugs of oil underneath the skin The camp Cambric referred to was a Sam's doctor ins1sted that Sam read a you have to remember that this IS a new which produce either a blackhead or a cheerleading camp at Northern Illinois pamphlet about the possible side effects drug, and that makes it dangerous." whitehead. If the plug ruptures under­ University which nine of the Julian of accutane- dry lips, skin and mouth, Morgan demands that a teen and the neath the skin, it forms a cyst. Teens cheerleaders- attended last summer. eyeball swelling, an increase in blood fat teen's parents confer wih him before he with severe acne looking for a der­ Harmon did not attend the camp and that could lead to heart disease 1n later will prescribe the drug. " I want them to matologist who has used accutane can gave no reason to Cambric why he didn't years, the swell1ng of bone endings and know that there are definite nsks," he contact the American Academy of Der­ attend. problems controlling blood sugar lead­ said. " Certainly sexually active women matology (869-3954). Cambric daims that she made Har­ ing to poss1ble d1abetes. must be on birth control because the mon aware of the reasons for his re­ But Sam was Willing to risk these con­ drug causes serious birth defects." Faith Tucker moval from the squad. But Harmon sequences, even after his condition got " I wouldn't prescribe the drug unless it says, " She didn'tgive me a reason why I worse during the first few days.