January – February 2006 Issue

Are we too obsessed with celebrities?

Kathryn gives thumbs up to Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut novel.

Readers write in with their thoughts on the November-December 2005 issue of L.A. Youth

Students at a recent San Fernando Valley Youth Summit, where Los Angeles Unified School District students talked about how to reduce violence on campus, had different views on whether King’s goals have been accomplished.

Our generation has grown up thinking that we are only as good as our society expects us to be. People

When a teacher read her classmates’ MySpaces, it made Selina, 16, wonder: should schools be telling us what to do when we’re online?

Last spring, when my Bible class teacher spent an entire Sunday looking at every student’s MySpace that he could find, there was an uproar the following Monday. “Oh that’s so gross, he’s so nosy. He shouldn’t have a right to do that,” girls said. …

Please don’t ask Charlotte, 17, how the weather is up there. She’s a head taller than her friend.

Just about everyone has a MySpace, from students to teachers and other adults. It is fairly easy to get a

Teens share their views on how to reduce campus violence

Lawyer Mark Goodman explains the rights that California students have to express themselves on Internet sites.