May 1991 New Expression: May 1991 (Volume 15, Issue 5) Columbia College Chicago

May 1991 New Expression: May 1991 (Volume 15, Issue 5) Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection May 1991 New Expression: May 1991 (Volume 15, Issue 5) 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: May 1991 (Volume 15, Issue 5)" (1991). New Expression. 105. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/105 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. DYING FLAME Native American teens cling to embers of their culture \ l ... Story on page 5 "H... e once saw no limit to his boundaries, But now he senses the push ofthe white man-- Westward bound. He holds his head high, Proud of his heritage. But he sees that image dwindling As does the flame of his fire ... '' --David Kim May 1991 Volume 1~, Num~ er ~ NE looks and teens and alcohol: • Reviewing rap's best What's • Drinking teens tells their tales ... See page 21 ... Seepage2 Inside: ·Are high school sports too serious? • How drinking destroys ... See Sports, page 24 ... See pages 12-13 -- inside track TEENS AND ALCOHOL How they get it, why they use it By Mllda Saunders St. Ignatius ·- alcohol, "Is drinking bad?" Hell, Feeling lonely, shy, bored or have been buying it since sopho­ Roberto, Hispanic, Westsider, linda, Asian, suburbanite, senior yeah. Not a lot of my friends drink. uncool? more year. The owners don't care, sophomore "In bad neighborhoods or in cer­ The "cure" for your ails is at your they just want to make money. "I drink alcohol every weekend. I tain parts of the city, it is easy to but Alexandria, North side, senior local neighborhood corner store. There are also stores that deliver. I started to drink at 14 years old. My alcohol. In the suburbs it is really "I have access to alcohol any This potion is cheap, portable, work at a bar and pizza restaurant friends introduced me to drinking hard. I buy it myself. I could accept time I want. It depends on neigh­ and easily accessible to most teens. and they deliver beer. and I felt that there was peer pres­ either a drinker or a non-drinker, borhood. Most little liquor stores do What is it... Drinking goes with cliques. I sure. All of my friends drink alco­ but it is more socially acceptable to serve alcohol to minors. Most teens ALCOHOL, of course. don't approve. I don't drink any­ hol. I either get alcohol from a drink. Yes, our weekend revolves do drink even during school. One Alcohol is the drug of choice more. Most people know that it's liquor store or one of my older around alcohol. If we have a place of my best friends doesn't drink she among teens. Its popularity is due bad. They just do it for experimen­ friends buys it for me. It is very easy to, we drink. That would be our first feels out of place. to a combination of factors: its so­ tation or social acceptability. Alco­ for me to get alcohol. I think that choice, our last choice would be There is no outside peer pres­ cial acceptability, its desirable ef­ hol is more dangerous though its drinking isn't bad as long as you movie. sure, just pressure to conform. For fects, and its easy accessibility. legal. It is at parties. During sopho­ don't drive." I drink about twice a month. On a lot of people the weekend does Alcohol consumption is one thing more and junior year, you don't Marl a, African-American, a typical night I have aboutSdrinks. center around alcohol. 90% of the that many Chicago teens have in have fun without it ... With some Bacardi breezers, wine coolers, time when I go out I drink. Almost common. Its use crosses the people it goes toward drugs, LSD, Southsider, senior "I don't drink but some of my malibu are my usuals. There is an anything we do we drink afterwards. boundaries of race, sex, class and pot. group drinks. It is pretty easy to emphasis on alcohol because it is It allows me to have more fun. We neighborhood. For many teens it is It's not that hard a life. People fun. Pressure is more to be drunk drink to drink. Sometimes I drink at the focal point of the whole week­ drink out of boredom or to be cool. buy. There is a place right down because everyone is. bars or dance clubs. I have never end. To illustrate that point, a di­ You want to know what it is, you the street from school. It's OK not to drink within my group. I don't The only problem is the legality been carded. Though when I was verse group of teens have been want to experience it. It is fun, but interviewed to get their viewpoints dangerous. It starts as early as the have a problem being at a party of it. I started drinking in Spain 16, I did have to pay the doorman. with people who do drink. on teens and alcohol. seventh grade. because it was legal. I didn't drink Teens drink trying to have fun. There is no peer pressure, it People who don't drink still main­ when I got back because my friends The first time works well (its usually Michael, white, Northsider, senior tain coolness. Sophomore year comes from inside. I have to check didn't. I eventually found a group the best). You try togo back to that. "It 1s not at all difficult, not in the there is pressure to conform, but by to see if my reasons for not drinking that did." Drinking allows someone to ex­ crty. At most stores, at certain are the right ones. My friends (but press themselves more freely. JUnior year 11 is OK." Laticla, West side, junior, stores, it is a sure thing. I JUSt walk not my) weekend revolves around Junior year I drank two to three "Occasionally, I drink alcohol. right in and take rt to the counter. I alcohol when there is nothing to do. times a year, now I drink once a started drinking at 15 years old. I'm not usually there then week. On a typical night I have Basically I introduced myself to al­ vodka/orange juice- two glasses, r.========================~ because it wouldn't be fun cohol. My friends also influenced beer, and a joint. fo,ma.• me. It is pretty easy for me to get tlE • (For related stories, see pages 12-13) Advertts in~ Director! Ketly linda Wv, senn; ~ Moy, WhltMy , Nico Berry, Kenwood; McCoy 11 ~x~n~re~"·~~~~·-~JP:=ommun.I::IJ~ODc.,.,... And,es He,nandez, Sf. Young; Ben Nunez, UIC; Rugen ~ ~ Executtve Ptrector: $usao Hen lgnativs; Erica Myres. 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