Y-Press F or most students, high school is a place where they take classes that might help them decide on a college major, which then might lead to a future career. For students at the Indianapolis Metropolitan Career Academies, school is a place where they can directly try on various careers. "Why waste four years of college just to decide that it's not what you want to do? This is giving us a ch

W hy would someone pay for public school? Classes are large, teachers are overworked, rules are inflexible, and nobody knows your name. Those are the stereotypes. But many public schools attract out-of-district students because of their wide range of academic and extracurricular opportunities. Katie Meneely, 17, and Allen Taylor, 16, pay to attend North Central High School in Marion County's Washi

"We have the chance to try the different cuisines of different cultures and (learn) how they dress and live." Charlotte Wu, student, speaking about immigrants to Hong Kong T he streets in Hong Kong have become even more crowded since the territory was handed over to the People's Republic of China in 1997 after being ruled by Great Britain for more than 150 years. Now a Special Administrative Regio

Before fleeing their countries, many refugees had misconceptions about what would become their new home. Nimco Ahmed, 20, originally from Somalia, did not expect the diversity she encountered in the United States. "I thought everyone in America was going to be white," she said. But then "I realized that everybody in America came from different places." Y-Press interviewed 95 young people to learn

Before the 1970s, soccer was almost nonexistent in the United States. Since then, however, it has steadily gained in popularity so that now it is played routinely at the high school level, as well as at a national one. In Marion County schools, about 900 boys and 700 girls are on varsity soccer rosters. While play at the elementary level is often co-ed, few Marion County high school teams are mixe

It's dark. It's loud. The crowd is going crazy. For two local bands, DizeAzeD and the Hooligans, this is a typical Saturday night. Y-Press talked with Nicole Anderson, 19; Macey Frank, 18; and Dannie Frank, 15; from DizeAzeD and Jonny Nagel, 20, from the Hooligans about their lives in the music circuit. The punk-rock Hooligans were created about two years ago when Jonny's older brother, Mike, met