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Let NE help p. 4 • Tee mar·juana use is up The smoking statistics p. 6 • E t lks to C ari sa Flores Is she WY's Scottie Pippin? p. 16 p.3 • YOUTH COMMUNICATION 1996-1997 Board of Directors Offictrl -J-tae~t --ftffei®~~~ President Helen A Mllphy -CraNJ's CIVcago Business AJe lmmtdlllte Put President ~ "'ea~e~ William (Oaf) Frost-Canadian Paciffc Forest Products, Inc. (ret.) Vic. Prelldent.fnterMI A!fllra With Christmas and New Year's right around the corner, many of us will be doing a lot of last Philip Costello-Logk: Plus minute shopping in these next few days. VIce Pres/dent.fxtema/ Afralra Our fashion section features a few items from TJ Maxx that might interest our readers· for Dimitra Tasiouras-CIJ«;ago Foundation for WOOlell NE Staff '96-'97 yourself or for your signifi cant other. We also take a look at the best time to go shopping--{jay· Trusum after sales! We, too, have the problem of what to wear for our New Year's parties, but this issue Managing Editor Deborah L DeHaas-MOOr AndllfS8fl & Co. gives you suggestions of how to enter the New Year Sty/in'. J . M ich ael Rodriguez, D a ley C o llege Secretlry In entertainment, NE talks to some of the business' finest Creative Writing Editor Layton E. Olson-Howe & Hutton, Ud. Kente B. Johnson-Taylor, Chicago Academy for the Arts Assistant Secretlry artists: from 112 to Foxy Brown and Montell Jordan. Entertainment Editor Helen Schubert-He/en Schubert Pub/k: Relations New Expression Sports also covered this year's Prep Bowl Amanda Veazley, Whitney Young General Directors between Loyola and Dunbar, complete with slats and interviews of Maty Dedinsky-Medill School ol JoumafiSIIl Fashion Editor the game's premier stars. We also feature one of the Public James Dodson, Jr.-CNA Insurance Shena Ponder, Whitney Young Jean Doyl&- Ben &Jerry's League's hottest basketball players, Oarissa Flores. 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Howard L WiHett Fooodalion, Inc. © 1997 Youth Communication Women in Communications, Inc. 2 NE JANUARY 1997 I A Cultu .. al education leaves diverse attitude tale of two oommittlfs By Chaundra Blandin, Morgan Park B) J. Michael Rodriguez, Daley College th1ng about living 1n AmeriCa when you aren I a U.S Cormng to Amenca and gomg to a school where Clllzen IS that you have to pay for school My mother Smpmg between two Chicago high school groups, Student Alliance comfortable that someth1ng would get done about rt because of h1s you don't know anybody except the famtly that you are spent a lot for a round-tnp ticket there and bad'., plus and Student Leadership, broke out recently wi1h both groups hurling ass~stant,' says Klmberly Borgman, a JUnior at Senn H1gh School kving wrth could leave m1xed reactions about the money 1nduded for me to go to school. I kJnd of insuhs at each other rmr who really represents the best 1nterest of teens who was 1n attendance at the Student Leadership Meeting 'The country we call 1and of the free ' diSagreed WTth the whole 1dea and all. but my mother 11 the ely's public schools way that people say that he doesn'tlisten to students 1s completely 'I lived 1n the Unrted States for a penod of two pays no attention to me I don I want to go back to But the ongomg conflid threatens to dilute the VOtCe of aty students 1n false, and my case IS a perfect example ' weeks, durmg a fore1gn-exchange 111!1!1111... -... the school. but I 'Mil gladly go for some srte ongoog deliberations regard1ng the future of the Ch~eago public schools Student Leadership was established earl1er th1s year by Paul program,' saJd 14-year-old Emelyne ,seemg '1f Student Alliance (and the students llVOived) are not 'MllllQ to worit Vallas and h1s Board of Trustees to mwmze student partJapabon. Bernard from France 'I d1dnt like the 'I liked the fad that my child got to togethEJ v.ith Mr Valas and his lroop, then the student vace wil not be nus group conSistS of not only the Local School Coonol exchange p~ogram for one because expenence some of the lh1ngs the lllified, and possibly may be less effedJve,' says Philhp Jacksoo deputy representabves but also members of student counols and leaders I didn't have hands on matenallike Amencan children do and what they do chef of staff of the CPS. of vanous student dubs I have at my school. I am so used to to ha<e fun I thmk d my daughter Al a meebng m November, Ch1ef ExecutJve Officer Paul Vallas spoke Vallas reassured students about his obhgabon to educat1on my school that I JUst couldn I adJust Emelyne dldn I erl{oy d.