rc IG
bo rd m etin • e ch
t te gave report on i
progre nd it proj ct .
Som ofth i ue pcopl di -
c ed were ffordable ho -
in ,10 n counseling, politi I
c mp ign reform, reforma
tion of HUD policie nd th
incre e of paren • voice in
th hool y tern .
Wh t got re lly iting
w wh n we cho e th cam
paign th t re important to
all th tate and developed
plan to wor together on
them nationally. Two of the
thing we focused on were
HUD reform and the develop
ment of a third party.
We agreed that HUD
house have become for real
e tate peculators, not the
poor, and that both
Democrats and Republicans
are increasingly controlled by
special-intere t group who
finance their campaigns.
We're already eeing the
result of our nation-wide
campaign against HUD. On
October 31, ACORN national
leaders met with Juan Aco ta,
assi tant to Jack Kemp, to
negotiate changes in HUD
policy.
As the meeting was taking
place, delegations of
ACORN members across the
country marched into HUn
offices to insist that a letter of
our demands be faxed to the
national HUn office in
Washington, ,D.C. This show
of trength must have made a
difference: HUD agreed to
change its policy on "earne t
money" down.
NOW, INSTEAD of re
quiring a deposit of 5 percent
of the cost of the house to
hold a bid, the buyer in never
required to put down more
than $500 on any house under
$50,000. ACORN's pressure
on HUD will continue nation
ally. At the same time, we
will keep developing our
plans for a third party plat
form.
Already, ACORN has
elected members to the
school board in Chicago, and
to the City Council in Pine
Bluff, Arkansas. The City
Council representative was
elected on a_developed, third
party, "people's platform."
ACORN members around the
country are ready to develop
a third party controlled by
people, not money, and will
begin focusing energy on it
nationally in 1992.
ACORN is growing not
only nationally, but in Detroit
as well. To join ACORN, call
963-1840r .
Deliver your
Christmas
Wish Lists to
Santa Claus
Children of all ages are en
couraged to come out to the
Inkster Recreation Complex. �
Friday, December 13, 1991 at
6 PM to meet and deliver their
Christmas Wish Lists per-
onally to SANTA CLAUS
himself during the City of
Inkster'S Annual "Santa
Night."
Santa's pecial helpers
will al 0 be on hand to snap
that special photo of your
child and Santa (photo can
be purcha ed for $5
w/proceeds going toward
pecial Parks and Recreation
projects.) .
For more information on
"Santa Night" iii Inkster, call
the Parks and Recreation
Department at 728-7530.
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By NATHANIEL SCOTT
St."W,ItM
HIGHLAND PARK-The winners
in Highland Park' employees ver-
u the public afety department
fourth annual basketball game were
11 needy families, not publi afety
who edged the employee 89 to 85.
City employee Tony Lampkin
aid the proceed from the game
were used to purchase 11 boxe of
food for needy families in Highland
Park..
Teen learn
the problem
of saying Yes
More than 75 teens and parents
attended a panel discu sion spon
sored by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,
Inc., Pontiac Chapter, on the "The
Consequences of Saying Yes to
Teen Sex. Part 2". A similar panel
was held in 1990. Donations were
also accepted for the Stork's Ne t�
a Zeta communi ty ervice project
that donate infant layette to teen
mothers.
The panel! 18 included teens, ex
perts and intere ted adults from the
community. Adult panelists were
Betty Yancey, RN, Program Coor
dinator, Infant Health Promotion,
Oakland County Health Division,
Syrenia Taborn, teacher, Early
Childhood Development Class at
Pontiac Northern High School,
Glenn Chappel, MALO Board
Chairman, and minister at Greater
. Grace Temple in Detroit.
Teen members were Nichole
Hickson. Zeta Archonette youth
group, Stephen Kennedy, Young
Men of Simba youth group, Willie
Rainstaff Leaguers youth group,
and Karmen Davi • AKA Teen
youth group.
Two teens from Ms. Taborn'
Early Childhood Development
Class, Yvette Dunlap and Karen
Turner, discussed limitations in
freedom experienced when re
quired to carry a doll with them at
all times as part of an exercise in
learning what it feels like to be
responsible for a baby.
SOME CONSEQUENCES to
teen sex discussed were teen preg
nancy and sexually transmitted dis
eases including AIDS. Interruption
in or permanent postponement of
school or college and the high cost
of raising a child i.e.. $162,000 to
the age of 18, were other factors
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Each box contained all the
nee ary ingredients for a tradi
tional Thanksgiving diner, includ
ing turkeys.
Lampkin said the Department of
Social Services provided the names
of the familie who received the
boxes.
Th annual game wa played at
the Earnest T. Ford Recreation Cen
ter and there i talk of a rematch
before Christmas.
The employees, who aid this
wa their first loss, are gearing up
for the rematch and according to the
rule of the game, the 100 er had to
purcha e the food, pack and deliver
the boxe .
However, the employee did not
consider th chore an unpleasant
one.
Neverthele ,Lampkin in i ted
that Raymond Moore, Michael Hall
and Inspector Hubert Yopp were
mentioned.
He wa equally adamant about
thanking the recreation department
for the use of the center.
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
,
arm
violent a
By FLO_DEAN S. RIGGS
Mlchlg.n Cltlz.n
Frank Hayden, Detroit Board of
Education vice president said he i
alarmed at what he has learned a
the board' expulsion hearing of
ficer.
A majority of the children from
the middle and high school cro s
ing hi path are kicked out of the
system because they brought guns
to school fully intending to u e
them.
"They felt they had to arm them-
clve to protect themselve ."
Hayden, (lid. "We have to propo e
an alternative to packing a gun."
Confli t re lution, including
program to develop elf-e teem,
recruiting more African-American
male teachers to serve as role
model for
male students
will be efforts
combined with
language, wri t
ten into the
Student Code
of Conduct. In
addition a
b l u e vr i bon
commi ion
will be formed
to tudy, iden
tify, recom
mend and put
into action
solution
reforming the
violent men
talities of tu
dent , Hayden
said.
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I
violence, Nicholson aid.
"They don't tell anyone after
coming back to chool fter a
homicide," she said. "They have
been taught it' not okay to cry, 0
they keep it inside and their anger
builds up.
"I try to a k them what they can
do that's positive, that' not going
to get them into trouble."
TUDENT AS young a first
grader have a double anger, she
continued. They're mad because of
the violence that ourrounds them
and they're angry over their fear of
ecorning a tati tic.
Through talk and role playing
the students learn they are not alone
which is rehabilitating itself,
Nicholson said.
The American Medical Associa-
tion reports
t hat
homicide is
the leading
cause of
death in
Mi c h i g a n
a m .0 n g
African
American
males over
age 9, and
further
reports that
Michigan's
you n g
African
American
males have a
greater
chance of be
coming
homicide
victims than
those in any
other state.
African American men in
Wayne County die at nearly 15
times the national average for all
men in the United States.
Within the Detroit Public School
District. Student Code violations
have doubled in the last year, cases
involving guns have tripled and the
number of students bringing knives
to school has significantly in-
The American
Medical Association
reports that
homicide is the
leading cause of
death in Michigan
among African
American males
over age 9 ... African
Amerian men in .
Wayne County die at
nearly 15 times the
national average for
al/ men in the United
States.
"I THINK
THI will
send a po itive
message that we are very serious
about what we will and will not
tolerate, " he said. "School is a place
to learn, not a place to settle dis
putes."
Nancy Nicholson, a Save Our
Son and Daughters children's
counselor who al 0 works as with
the Public Schools Survival In
s ti tute said it ha been her ex
perience that conflict re olution
works,
"It's an excellent idea, but Its no
different from what we 've been
doing in the chools," she said.
Working with kindergarten
through ixth grade tudents,
Nicholson aid she has found that
three-fourths of them have been
victimized by homicide - either a
relative or a friend has died from
violent crime .
The young male uffer the mo t
because they have been taught to
internalize their pain and when they
become teenagers the tendency is to
resolve their conflicts through
creased.
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Teen panelist, Stephen' Kennedy (standing) seated (l-r): Nlchole Hlck
son, Glen Chappel and Karen Davis.
cited.
Soror Carolyn Dinkins, a.
teacher at Madison Jr. High SCQ,Qol
was the panel moderator. The
event wa held at UA W Local 653
in Pontiac thanks to the
charitiability of Local 653 leaders.
Soror Doris Woods is the Stok's
Nest Advisor. Soror Brenda Street
is the Chapter President. •
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Prealdent
Anabolic Steroids and Teenage Athletes
The use of performance enhancing drugs by athletes continue to be
reported. Anabolic steroids and amphetamines seem to be the focu of
most media reports.
Anabolic teroid are commonly referred to as "male hormone .n
Some teenage athlete have been told that teroid will improve perfor
mance. A recent tudy of over three thou and male high school eniors
indicated that 6.6 percent use or had used teroid. Over two-third
indicated that they were 16 years old or younger when they tarted u ing
teroids. Teenage athlete hould know the following about the drug:
1. Anabolic steroids do not promote muscle growth in boys or women. Large
dose of teroids may timulate mu cle growth in men.
2. It i not known whether or not teroid improve athletic performance.
Even if phy ieal trength increase , it h not been hown that trength
alone improve thletic performance
3:Potential ide effects of anabolic teroid include ggre ive beh vior,
premature halting of bone growth leading to horter adult height, liver I
dy function, and liver cancer. Steroid can lead to death. :