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Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary .§ 1 00 i lack To School 1987 olume 11 lo. 6 ~ISO Inside: ·This month New Ex­ lression celebrates the ~00 years of the U.S. ~onstitution with a spe­ ~ia l supplement. Test tourself and win up to S200 in cash and prizes. ·Are city officials ready to :ake the advice of teens? New Expression reports )n the Mayor's new Youth Advisory Board on 0 age 4. ·Does the painful world jescribed by some young Nriters really resemble the experience of typical teenagers? On Page 6 reporter Leslie Casimir talks to several teen writers and finds out how they develop their some­ times dark visions. II~ ws Briefs Diary writing saves lives By Robin Downing "Rnally, I got up enough nerve to Managing Editor: Roberta buy a diary a,nd express my feel­ English, Von Steuben Inside Track Editor: Leslie Diary wr~ing can save a teen's life I ings. At first, it was awkward be­ Casimir, Von Steuben That's what a recent study at cause I wasn't used to wr~ing my­ Southern Methodist University dis­ self, but the more I wrote, the better Youth News Bureau Chief closed. and NatlonaVState Editor: According to the study, if teens ... holding back one's Jorge Paredes, Amundsen wr~e about the frightening, upset­ Special Assignments Editor: ting or tragic experiences in their feelings about upset­ Adolfo Mendez, Kelvyn Park City Editor: Sonya Young, lives, the wr~ing will help them heal ting events can be the emotional scars. This "writing Senn therapy" is an exercise that more mentally harmful. .. Editorial Director: Smita and more counselors suggest. Lahiri, WMney Young New Expression was able to find I felt. I still have a long way to go, but School Affairs Editor: Sonia two Chicago teens who already use I no longer have a strange personal­ Orfield, Kenwood Accidents, violence cause this method. Anna Lee Johnson, ity," she said. Entertainment Editor: David 16, (the name she uses in her diary} According to the August issue of Ratzlow, Wh~ney Young The Wei/ness Letter, "Research Newsbrlefs Editor: Nancy most U.S. teen deaths wr~es about her upsets w~h her parents. has shown that holding back one's Johnson, St. Ignatius The danger for females is sui­ "I have had many problems with feelings about upsetting events can College/Careers Editor: Cas· By Jorge Paredes cide. According to the report, fe­ my homelife, • she said. "At one be mentally harmful, and perhaps sandra Chew, Lindblom male teens are four to five times point of my life I felt like I was going physically damaging as well." A Lifestyles Editor: Odette It's dangerous to be a teen male more likely to attempt suicide than to explode! I couldn't talk to my good release, the Letter says, is a Szolnoki, Good Council in this country, especially a male males. However, males are four parents because they don't com­ daily session w~h pen and paper as Young Chicago Editor: Scott who drinks and drives. times more likely to die in a suicide municate w~h me at all. They also a substitue for talking. Spilky, Von Steuben Marc Taylor, a 17-year-old li­ attempt because they use more Advertising Manager: Shan· censed driver, says he worries don't approve of my wr~ing in my lethal methods, such as guns and tel Smith, Academy of Our about being hurt in an accident and hangings. diary because they feel it is unnec- ==-:===-=..:::::~:.=.:..=..~..-=:.:..:..:::~:-';;;;~~ Lady with good reason. According to an Reviews of suicide victims show essary and a waste of time. One article in the June 26 ed~ion of The that they had been depressed for funny thing about wr~ing in my diary Graphics Director: Lorraine Journal of the American Medical very long periods of time, and in is that in a sense, ~ saves my life." ,_,..,n-_. Reyes, Von Steuben Association, 60 percent of all teen some cases they had talked and Marie Fontaene, 16, (not her real Graphics Production Assis­ accidental deaths are caused by even searched for help for their name}, suffered the death of her tant: Phat Chung, Von Steu· motor vehicle crashes, and acci­ suicidal thoughts. adopted parents. "I nearly went to ben. dents cause most (61 percent}teen Teens over the past 30 years pieces," she said. "I decided to let Circulation Manager: Henry deaths. have not shown any improvement King, Westinghouse Marc, who is also black, is in the myself go no matter what the cost. in death statistics even though Staff Writers: Nancy Brown, most prominently endangered every other age group has im­ I was considered a prost~ute by Mather; Aaron Cooper, Hirsch; group since black male teens are proved their chances of living. This some people and weird by others. also most likely to die from homi­ high death rate is due to violence 77 "At that point I didn't care what Barry Davidson, Kenwood; cide. Homicide is the second lead­ percent of the time. Only 11 per­ people thought of me, but I was still Robin Downing, Fenger; Carol ing cause of death among black cent of teens die of disease while hurting inside. I had a few goOd Hudson, Morgan Park; Marvin teen males, who are five times 77.7 percent die of accidents. friends that would listen to me, but McAllister, Wh~neyYoung;Aii­ more likely to be murdered than any "I just hope I don't become one of it was not enough. son McKenzie, Whitney other age or racial group. those statistics," said Marc Taylor. Young; Steven Morton, Hirsch; Yolanda Nash, Lane Tech; Michelle Porter, Dunbar; Anto­ New gonorrhea spreads; city Health Officials have cure nio Sharp, Hyde Park; Ethan Stoller, Wh~ney Young; Den· isha Tate, Proviso East; Aaron By Denlsha Tate orrhea can. Therefore, a person Illinois Department of Health. "Pa­ been reported on the south and Washington, Kenwood. with PPNG could receive a penicil­ tients are recommended to take the southwest side. By June the num­ Photo Manager: Alex Since New Expression reported lin shot for gonorrhea and still have medication for seven days and then ber of cases had increased to 209. Chaparro, Amundsen. the spread of a new sexually trans­ PPNG. be checked by their doctor to be "Seventy of the 209 cases were in Photo Production Assistant: mitted disease in May, the disease Because PPNG makes the body sure they no longer have PPNG. Al­ the Garfield Park area, • according PPNG has spread from the south Dora Guarardo, Wells. resistant to penicillin, a victim of though PPNG can be cured, ~can to Shirley Hass, an Illinois Depart­ Advertising Staff: Freida and southwest areas of Chicago to PPNG cannot be readily cured of also by re-caught through sexual ment of Health Public Relations the Garfield Park area. In two other illnesses that normally re­ activity," Love said. Official. Johnson, Jones; Julie Price, months the number of cases has quire penicillin, such as the flu. When a person has received For more information about Prosser; Latonya Shelly, more than doubled to 209. "PPNG can be cured by an oral treatment and no longer has PPNG and other STDs call: V.D. Flower; Fernando Soler, PPNG (Penicillinase-Producing­ antibi0tic known as Ceftriaxone," PPNG, the person will then be able Confidential (808-3702} or vis~ the Bowen. Neisseria-Gonorrhea} is a form of according to Collins Love, Coordi­ to use penicillin as a cure for other Municipal Social Hygiene Clinic at GraphlcsStaff: Gilbert Brown, gonorrhea, but it cannot be cured nator for Sexually Transmitted Dis­ illnesses. 27 E. 26 St. Metro; Buenos Jones, Simeon; by penicillin as other forms of gon- ease Education/Information at the In April, 95 cases of PPNG had Armando Lopez, Currie; David Verge!, Senn. Schools face birth control ban Photography Staff: Enrique Arcea, Metro; Xavier Car· By Cassandra Chew rasquilla, Steinmetz; George Marroquin, Kelvyn Park; Ben· Will contraceptives be banned in LaDonna Marshall, a senior at Du­ nie McDonald, Carver; Marco lllino1s h1gh schools by January 1? Sable, does not get contraceptives State Rios, Amundsen. The answer will be known next from the clinic, but she feels the month when the Illinois Assembly Business Staff: Tessie school needs this service at its Bryant, Westinghouse. will try to override Gov. James clinic. "Some girls would be too lazy sc hoI a rs --.----1----r---:i-1~· .,.,...___.,-........__,. Copy Managers: Paul Pink· Thompsons' veto of a bill that pro­ to go out on their own to get birth hibits contraceptives in schools. control," she said. ston, Whitney Young. The Illinois Senate approved the According to Nicole Bennett, a cut from New Expression is pub­ banning of contraceptives by a vote lished once a month except of 30 to 18, and the House agreed junior at DuSable who also does not get birth control from the clinic, June through August and De­ by a vote of 64 to 39 in June.