Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection September 1979 New Expression: September 1979 (Volume 3, Issue 6) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "New Expression: September 1979 (Volume 3, Issue 6)" (1979). New Expression. 23. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/23 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Youth Communication Chicago Collection at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Expression by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. Vol. 3 No.6 September, 1979 Teen marriages breaking up Teen divorce rates are soaring. And last year 49 Chicago-area teens married for a second time - even after their first try ended in divorce. Our story on page 4 begins a three-part series on teens in love. by Eric Williams THE INSIDE TRACK Anti-disco Cohos are fishing for trouble "COHO!" screamed a man in cut-off blue jeans. throwing a Stevie Wonder album tnto the Affects My Life," "Great Presi­ air and watching it shatter on See you in dents from Lincoln to Carter," the ground. or worst of all, coloring the dreaded " Map of the Original Cover Photo: ''DIS-CO-SUCKS!" yelled court, Mom Eric Bradshaw shot this picture another man with a backpack 13 Colonies." Everyone had better hope to illustrate what is happening slung over his shoulders. He Recently the Tribune ran a in many teen marriages today reached into the pack and lit a story about a young man who this doesn't catc:h on. If it does ... well sharpen your crayons. -divorce. Our models, Susan firecracker the size of a soda is suing his parents for mal­ Harvey and Kevin Thompson, pop can. He flung it into the air practice. He claims that they aren't considering marriage or where it exploded. Several did a lousy job of raising him. divorce. people flinched. I began to He blames them because he is think about what else might be neurotic and maladjusted. in his backpack. This would seem to be a step "Disco! Disco! Disco!" an­ forward in chtldren's rights, or other man cried as he slam­ is it? med a Village People album It's true that what parents do against his head until it broke in for their children can have a two. lifelong effect, but malpractice This is not a scene from a suits could lead to kids blaming bad movie. This is a sample of mommy and daddy for every­ the pre-game "festivities" on thtng. July 12 at Comtskey Park. The " No, mommy, I don't want to anti-disco rally was big news tn take out the garbage. It's dam­ Chicago and across the coun­ agtng my self tmage!" try. Watching from the stands. I " Daddy! Spankings are a New Express-~--- was amused and a little wor­ no-no. My lawyer says it could A mLJgaNte fly Clltcdgo teens for Chtc.nyo teens ried. leave deftnite psychic scars!" 'Holocaust' I was shocked at the size of ' Soon we would have the Editor-In Chief: Denise Bronson, Graphics Staff: Brian Seaphus, the crowd waiting to get in. I lawyers who specialize in par­ The Immaculata. Westinghouse; Felicta Williams, had been followtng Steve ental malpractice, called "Crib mirrors Managing Editor: Eric Williams, Columbia. Dahl's radio explotts. I was lis­ Chasers!' They would hang UICC. Staff Artists: Steve Blatt, River­ tentng to the show when he ftrst around the delivery rooms and Boat People News Editors: Rhonda Hannah, side-Brookfteld; David Levi, dreamed up his Disco Demoli­ pediatric wards lurking in dark .... Percy Julian; Kristina Prorok, School of the Art Institute. tion Army, The Insane Coho corners. Starting Sept. 10, NBC will Whitney Young; Daryl Macon , Ups. I listened in amazement "Psst! Kidl I saw your mom rerun "The Holocaust" mini­ Lindblom; Marea Parker, Academy as he announced his plans to take that candy from you. You series, which helped get us into of Our Lady; Felicite Williams, Cor­ liss. New Expression is published take over a near north side can take her to court. Charge the horrors of what the Jews once a month except July and Au­ Feature Editors: Michelle Don­ disco and slap all of its patrons her with causing a complex faced tn Nazi Germany from gust by Youth Communication, with a Coho salmon. I shared material psychosis." 1935 to the end of World War II. juielle, Marian; Terrance Franklin, Chicago Center, not-for-profit Whttney Young; Brian Lewis, Men­ his amusement when thou­ Many of the questions which agency. Editorial offices are at 207 sands of letters poured in from this film forces us to ask our­ del; Sherry Winston, Jones Com­ S. Wabash (8th floor). Chicago, Il­ mercial. people asking to become selves still linger. Why did the linois 60604. Phone: 663-0543. Cohos. I went to the game to 'Let them Holocaust happen? How could Editorial Director: Kevin Thomp­ Circulation Policy: Distributed free see what would happen. people stand by and watch it son, Cathedral. in high schools, community cen­ For the most part everyone happen without doing some­ Assistant Editorial Director: ters, stores and churches where do more teens live, congregate and go to was out to have fun on a humid Derrick Smith, Percy Julian. thing? Could it ever happen school. summer day. I was one of the again? Special Edition Editor: Lori Hen­ New Expression is a member of dricks, Lindblom. few Blacks at the game, but I work!' The last question is the most the Student Press Service located never felt I was tn any danger. haunting. What worries me is Graphics Directors: Eric-Scotte in Washington, D.C. Still, I felt a kind of latent vio­ says HEW that it seems to be happening Bradshaw, Lindblom; Susan Har­ Copyright..: 1979 by Youth Com­ lence in the crowd, as if 55,000 again ... to the "Boat People" vey, Carver. munication, Chicago Center. All Cohos were a barrel of gaso­ Mary Francis Berry, Assist­ of Viet Nam. These people had Advertising Manager: Karen rights reserved. Reproduction line and Steve Dahl was play­ ant Secretary of Education with the wrong politics (sympathy Ambrose, Lane Tech. without permission is strictly pro­ htbited. tng with matches. HEW, recently wrote her 'pre­ with the U.S. position) and they Circulation Managers: Rodney scription' to cure this country's needed religious freedom from Montgomery. Jones; Donna Pro­ sickly school system. a government that is anti-reli­ well , Westinghouse. Join New Expression She feels that students gious. So they are facing op­ Business Manager: Lisa Dixon, Are teens should give teachers more re­ pression which is similar to the Jones Commercial. spect Put them on a pedestal, scenes on your TV screen this Do you want glamor, ex­ Staff Writers: Enid Vazquez, De­ citement, beautiful women warm for so to speak. week (crowding, torture, star­ Paul; Elaine Takagi, Lakeview; I cnnge when I remember vation). Ava Thompson, Whitney Young; and handsome men? If you some of the teachers thaL I've This time the world is not just Maria Villalobos, Whitney Young; do, join the C.I.A.! OR, join the draft? had, some of whom couldn't standing by again, watching. Amy Weber, Northwestern; Bettina the New Expression The August 15 Gallup Poll even spell "pedestal." The UN is helping to settle ref­ Bulawa, Taft; Karen Ambrose, and fake it. reports that 71% of America's Ms. Berry also feels that ugees. The U.S. will absorb as Lane Tech .; Kevin Bell, Mendel; Robin Florzak, Whitney Young; New Expression is re­ teens favor the establishment teachers should give more many refugees as it can this cruiting high school stu­ of a voluntary national service Angela Giles, Bowen; Adrienne homework and that students year. Hutchins, Academy of Our Lady; corps. Of those teen patriots, dents who want to be re­ should come to school in a Maybe as a group project, Sherri Jones, Academy of Our porters, reviewers, featu 22% said they would definitely 'teachable' state, not fuzzy some of you who care can help Lady; Fannie Leflore, Waller; writers, artists and photo­ JOin a service corps from alcohol or narcottcs these refugees. A representa­ Angela Offutt, Cathedral; Raynay graphers. The poll went on to report This is where her touch with 1 tive from Catholic Charities ex­ Collier, Lindblom; Mark Allen, CVS; that only 20% of us actually the real world breaks down. platned that money was always Mta Lynn Marchman, The Im­ If you would like to check oppose the volunteer plan. Doesn t she realize that not all needed to offset the cost of re­ maculata; Lisa Margerum, Whit­ us out, come to the next This poll seems dangerous! students are on drugs and al­ location. Another possibility ney Young;,BQQ_ne~ecy. news editors' meeting 01 Congress mtght see the results cohol, and that one sure way to Jones; Car~r. Carver: could be a drive for used Hassan 0 . Rossell, Bradley; Verna feature editors' meeti n~ and believe them. Once our drtve them to it is to double their clothmg. Many high school Thompson, Dunbar. (September 18 at 3:30 fo1 senators hear how anxious we homework load? students wear small stzes like Staff Photographers: Mtchael reporters and Septembet are, they might decide to do us She can't realize how much th e " Boat People," who are Glover, Whitney Young, Andre 20 at 3:30 for feature writer~ a favor and pass a mandatory trouble she might cause in small tn stature.