European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 11. 1986 teens reactions to suicide stories studied Boston api news and failure Mories Boul suicide As Well As television movies on the subject seem to induce teen agers to Lake their own lives two new studies conclude. The research suggests that even Well intentioned examinations of the rising suicide Rait on prompt Trou bled adolescents to kill themselves. However experts Are unsure what if Anvi Hing the news Media should change in their Portra Jaf of suicide. I Don t i hint. We should not ill Hie Public thai the suicide Rale is going up that would he ridiculous said or.  Liin Borg of Harvard medical school. Yei. If this is i Juhl. That rim he some sort of stimulus to people who arc thinking afoul in. I Dun l know wha the solution in although the studies concluded that teen age suicides incl a after television news programs or mov ies dealing with suicide neither showed Hal the Vic Tims had seen the programs or. I it id 1. Phillips of the University of California at san Diego found that the nationwide suicide Rale among teen agers was 7 percent higher than usual Fol lowing in decision stories about suicide during the 1970s. Or. Madelyn s. Gould of Columbia University found thai the number of teen age suicide attempts in the new Yore t ily area Rose significantly following three of four made for la Levision movies about suicide Hal were broadcast during the fall of 1984 arid Winter of 198 s. Both studies suggested Hal teen agers imitate suicides they hear about on la vision. The reports were published in thursday s new England journal of Medicine along with an editorial by Eisinberg. After accidents suicide is the leading cause of death among american adolescents Between the Ages of 15 Ami 19, since 1950, the suicide Rale has tripled in this age group and almost 1,700 kill themselves each year. Phillips study concluded that educators policy makers and journalists May wish to consider ways of reducing Public exposure to stories Bolh general and specific about suicide Gould i Siudy said the presumptive evidence suggests that fictional presentations of suicide May have a Iclal  there is an implication that there should be censorship. 1 ant very much opposed to that said Char Lotc Ross Eye Culive director of the South Sui cide National Center in Washington. In interviews neither Phillips nor Gould advocated censorship. I would be very upset if people were to use my findings to pressure the news Media to reduce coverage of certain kinds of stories Phillips said. He suggested that news reports about suicides might include mention of the finding that suicides often Fol Low such coverage. This Way friends and relatives of hungry for customers up photo it appears a though his Isiu automobile is showing no mercy on some poor pedestrian who was t nimble enough to get out of the cur s Way. The gaping jaws however Are a sales gimmick that is sponsored by a Columbia , Auto dealer. His advertising slogan take a bile out of High  potential suicide victims As Well As despondent people themselves could be especially Alert. Gould s study found that in the two weeks before i rec of the to movies there were 14 teen age suicide attempts in the new York area. Afterwards there were 22. After another movie about suicide however Here was no significant change. Two of the programs including the one Hal had no apparent negative effect were broadcast by lbs. Addressing the Issue is much More important than ignoring it " said George Schici Lucr a lbs spokes Man. It s regrettable thai studies like these can l Mea sure the number of teen agers who sought help because they watched these programs. For us that s the real  looted Al the number of suicides in the week following each of 3b a tvs broadcasts that included feature stories about suicide among Len agers prisoners and other groups As Well As accounts of suicides of notable people. He found that the More publicity the suicides received the greater the increase in teen age suicides. His earlier research concluded that suicides among nil age groups also increase after Froni Page newspaper coverage of suicides. He said there was no Way 10 sort out How much of the increase among teen agers in the latest study  a response to television newspapers or magazines. Bottle of Ketchup catches burglar new York a a new bottle of Ketchup has led to the conviction Ofa burglar. Thomas Fennell 28, was convicted of burglar izing the Washington hotel Queens District attorney John Sanucci said tuesday. After pocketing an undetermined amount of Cash and inking a radio on feb. 26 or Early the next morn ing Fennell raided the refrigerator in the Kosher Cater ing Hall Santucci said the next morning manager Stanley Miriman found a bowl of meatballs and a bottle of Ketchup had been left out and fun null s fingerprints were on the bottle he said. Fennell s attorney argued that the prints could have been much older since Fennell had been arrested three limes for inc passing Over the past two years. But Miriman testified that the bottle was new. State supreme court Justice Philip Cholla set sentencing for sept 30, Fennell who was convicted Mon Day could face a seven year prison term Salucci said. Pepper Adams jazz musician Dies new Vork a Park Pepper Adams a saxophonist and Clarine Tisi who played with such jazz artists As John Colt inc dizzy Gillespie Benny Good Man and Stan Kenton died wednesday of lung cancer at the age of 55, his wife said. A three time grammy award nominee the baritone saxophonist acquired the nickname of the knife from fellow players. We called him the knife because when he d get up to blow his playing had almost a slashing effect on the rest of us said drummer Mel Lewis. He d slash chop and before he was through Cut everybody Downto  aids victim 4, suspended after biting classmate Atascadero Calif. A a 4-year-old boy with aids was suspended from school because he Bil another child just six Days after i parents won a 10 month Battle to have him admitted the child s father said wednesday. Ryan Thomas who contracted the deadly disease through a blood transfusion shortly after bind will not be allowed id go Back to Santa Rosa Road elementary school unless a special placement committee approves his readmission his father Robin Thomas said by Telephone. A hearing before the committee was scheduled Fri Day. Atascadero unified school District superintendent Anthony Avina was meeting about the suspension with be school principal wednesday and was not immediately available to discuss the matter his office said. The student was playing with friends on the Kinder Garten floor monday when another boy came up be Hind him jabbed him in the Back with his Elbow grabbed Ryan s hair and wrestled him to the floor. Thomas said. Ryan turned his head a Irtle Bil and bit him the other boy on the leg to let him go Thomas said. He did not break the skin either. It was barely enough to make a  according to the father neither the boy s parents nor he teacher were concerned about the episode. But Thomas said the school principal called monday eve Ning and told him not to bring Ryan Back to school. Late sept. 2, the Day school began a nine member special placement committee agreed to allow Ryan to attend kindergarten in the Small City about 170 mile Northwest of los Angeles. Ryan who entered Santa Rosa Road the next Day has suffered from acquired immune deficiency syn drome since he was iwo weeks old but he s relatively healthy Thomas said. Aids cripples inc body s disease fighting immune system leaving its victims vulnerable to a variety of life threatening infections and certain cancers. It is most frequently transmitted through sexual Contact or through exchanges of contaminated blood most experts have said there is no evidence in can be transmitted through saliva. As of sept. 1, aids had been diagnosed in 24.430 people in the United states and had claimed 13,342 lives according to the National centers for disease control in Atlanta