Article June 12, 1995 Issue

A special report: Youth Summit

by Kim Shippey

The speaker was a teenager as big as a Patriots'^{ New England's National Football League team .} football lineman. He rocked back and forth in his black, size thirteen "kicks"^{ Teenage slang for athletic shoes .} as he responded from under a baseball cap (worn backward) to a facilitator's question about what it means to "turn the other cheek" in a confrontation.

This was just one of many tough questions inner-city youths discussed in fifteen workshops that were part of a "Youth Summit" of 900 teenagers in Boston, Massachusetts, called by the Mayor, Thomas Menino.

President Clinton welcomed the students in a taped speech from the Oval Office in Washington, and then the Mayor encouraged the young people to work together to try to understand each other's problems, and to recognize their similarities as well as their differences.

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