Scholastic Update articles from February 1994

Scholastic Update archives from February 1994

Stop the violence! (teen violence)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... It was the kind of teenage squabble between two boys that should have ended in a shouting match or, at worst, a fistfight and a couple of bloody noses. But that's not what happened at 3:15 p.m. last January 13 in a hallway at Norland High...

Murder in Miami. (school and teen violence in Florida) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... MIAMI, Florida - This was supposed to be Varron William's first year at Florida A&M University, his first step on a path from the mean Streets of inner-city Miami toward the security of the middle class. But a volley of gunfire on an elementary...

What makes teens violent? (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... Fifteen-year-old T.O. doesn't know why experts are having such a hard time understanding the causes of teen violence. "Tell them to come talk to me," he says. T.O. (like other teens quoted in this article, he prefers not to use his full...

Murder, she saw. (violence in mass media) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... In the recent movie True Romance, actor and teen role model Christian Slater stuffs a pistol under his belt and smiles. "It's better to have a gun and not need it," he says, "than to need a gun and not have it." He proves to need it. With...

Laying down the law. (punishing juvenile delinquents) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... At dawn on a recent January morning, a group of young men dressed in green army fatigues were standing rigidly at attention, their shaved heads glinting in the light, while a stern officer conducted barracks inspection and barked out orders....

Lessons in survival. (school security systems) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... Each weekday morning, 17-year-old Sylvester Williams leaves his home in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, to attend nearby Wingate High School. Like high school seniors across the country, he is preoccupied with test scores and...

Guns r us. (gun violence and gun control) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... * September 25, Washington, D.C.: During a pickup football game on a school playground, three young men walk onto the field and begin firing pistols into a crowd of spectators. The gunfire, which police blame on a gang turf war, kills Launice...

Girls in the 'hood. (violent crimes among teenage girls) (Cover Story)
February 11, 1994... With full, pouty lips and lush golden hair, Regina could easily pass for a fashion model. She even looked into the business once, but decided she's "not into that glitzy stuff." She'd rather steal cars. Around her Los Angeles...

A prisoner and a president. (how Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk ended apartheid)(includes related articles) (Cover Story)
February 25, 1994... TEACHING OBJECTIVES "A President and a Prisoner" is the real-life drama of two men caught in a world of social upheaval. On one side is F.W. de Klerk, son of the Afrikaner elite. On the other is Nelson Mandela, son of a tribal chief,...

The young warriors: a lost generation. (high unemployment in South Africa) (Cover Story)
February 25, 1994... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--While many of his white counterparts are settling down to watch their favorite TV show, Sipho cocks his automatic weapon and disappears into the maze of dark alleys in strife-torn Katelhong township. Night has...

Children of apartheid. (South African children speak out on racial changes) (Cover Story)
February 25, 1994... Agrineth Lekalakala, 17, Zulu. She is a senior in high school and lives in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. I'm very proud of what is going on in South Africa. I watch the news every day with my parents and friends, and we...

Taking out the money. (divestment in South Africa and its consequences) (Cover Story)
February 25, 1994... It seemed like the 1960s all over again. Across the nation, student protesters were staging rallies, waving banners, chanting slogans, and seizing buildings. Not sin e the height of the Vietnam War protests had an issue so galvanized America's...

The road to freedom. (history of apartheid) (Cover Story)
February 25, 1994... The new South Africa inherits a legacy of violence, hatred, oppression, and the incredible heroism of those who finally brought apartheid to its knees. On April 27, South Africans of all races will go to the polls in the first free and...

Township jive. (South African music) (Cover Story)
February 25, 1994... Paul Simon was one of the most popular folk rock musicians of the 1960s and 1970s. Hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "The Sounds of Silence" had catapulted him to superstardom. But by 1985, he found his career fizzling. Searching...