Young People

I was disappointed to read "In-state tuition opponents have the signatures for referendum" (July 8). Maryland's new law would have extended in-state tuition rates to young, undocumented residents, but now the law has been blocked, and it will await the decision of the voters in November 2012. I am frustrated at how this issue has been framed by The Sun. The Sun has repeatedly referred to the beneficiaries of this new law as "illegal immigrants. " It is more accurate to call them children of Maryland residents who lack official citizenship documents.

100 Years Ago A fine Ford in E.C. "Quite a number of young people of our neighborhood attended the play in the Masonic Hall, Mt. Airy, on last Friday night. Mrs. Annie Wheeler of Washington spent the week end with relatives in the neighborhood. Mr. Charles DeLashmutt attended the automobile show in Baltimore on Tuesday and purchased for himself a fine Ford Automobile. 75 Years Ago Adrift In the Times there was a story about a recent snow storm: "Lack of Snow Plows and Highway Equipment Bring Criticism of Officials.

Fall auditions for the Annapolis Youth Chorus drew young people to Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts on Monday. The chorus, for singers ages 6 to 18, has three parts. The junior division is for grades one to seven, the senior division is for grades eight to 12 (with unchanged voices), and the mixed division is for grades eight to 12 (with changed voices).

Next September, a Washington National Opera performance of Puccini's evergreen La Boheme at the Kennedy Center will be seen simultaneously by audiences at high schools and colleges around the country, as well as outdoors on the Mall and in two D.C.-area movie theaters -- all free of charge. "Everybody is trying revolutionary ways to bring opera to more people," Placido Domingo, the famed tenor and general director of the WNO, said yesterday in an interview at the Kennedy Center. "This is terrific.

Insufficient housing for the elderly and the flight of young people to Pennsylvania to find reasonably priced homes are problems affecting much of Carroll, say county and municipal officials.At the first formal meeting of a new town-county committee to study housing problems Thursday night, representatives from cities and towns discoveredthat although their areas might be different, the housing problems they perceive are much the same.Representatives from Manchester, Union Bridge, Taneytown and Westminster met with county officials to discuss the most pressing housing problems facing the county.

Letia Bennett and DeRay McKesson know that plenty of Baltimore youth do well in school and steer clear of trouble. But the teen-agers worry about their peers who have had scrapes with the law, are using or selling drugs, or have become parents. So tomorrow, Letia and DeRay, both 16, will participate in Youth Explosion 2001 in hopes of finding solutions to many of the problems that can envelop youth. One thousand people are expected to attend the second annual event, which targets ages 13 to 21 and will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Highlights will include a Peace Walk, which will begin at 3:30 p.m. "The purpose of the Peace Walk is to show unity among young people in Baltimore City," said Lamarr Darnell Shields, who organized the event with Darlene Walker and David Miller.

In Bosnia, the teachers have gone to war or concentration camps. The books are burned, and the schools bombed to ruins.So an interfaith peace organization based in the United States has developed the Bosnian Student Project to help about 115 students finish their educations in U.S. high schools and colleges."

Like so many Baltimore teen-agers, Atlantis Alston knows a peer who has been killed. Her friend, Tiesha Kelly, knows kids who belong to gangs or sell drugs. Now they want to know what adults plan to do about it. Their search for solutions to the violent climate troubling Baltimore led them to an "Urban Adolescent Violence" workshop yesterday at the Sheppard Pratt Conference Center. It was run by David Miller, a former Calverton Middle School teacher who tries to steer kids away from trouble.

Awhile back, I wrote a column complaining that many young people do not read newspapers, and seem to be more interested in Britney Spears than the Middle East. I assumed that this column would not offend anybody, because I was just kidding around. Also, I figured no young person would actually read it. Unfortunately, the column fell into the hands of Debbie Title, a teacher at Crestview Middle School in Ellisville, Mo., who did something unspeakably vicious: She used my column as a classroom assignment.

SEATTLE -- It is Sunday night and the faithful are assembling, dressed in sweats, baseball caps and the classic Northwest mix of hiking boots and shorts over thermal underwear.The young people hurry to the 9: 30 p.m. service at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, to meet up with friends and get a seat, even if it is on the floor.People were turned away at least five times last year when the cathedral, which seats more than 600, reached capacity.Signs on the doors prohibit talking before, during and after the service.