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8 DAILY CHRONICLE WColbSycamor, IL. Friday, July 21 1 995 Lifestyle Kurt Gessler, Lifestyle Editor i Z5I 1 "What do you say? Hang I'ps by the DeKalb Area Women's Center," July 1-29, al the DeKalb Area Women's Center, 1021 Slate explores the modern phenomenon of T-shirt expression. The opening reception is Friday, July 14, 7-9 p.m. For more information, tall 758-1351. St.

Charles Art and Music Festival, July 7-22, at various locations in St. Charles. Symphonies, exhibitions, theater and English Teas. Call 708-584-FEST for information. Miniature Quilts Display, July 24, 7:30 p.m., July 25, 10:30 a.m., at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St.

Charles. Sir 0 Above: Instructor Steve Montesanto looks on as one of his students, Kelly Shannon, edits her video footage for a story. Left: Sarah Bachmann experiments with different wipes on Newswatch's video switcher. (Photos by Kurt Gessler) And would she encourage them to come to this camp? "Yeah, if they were really interested in journalism. If they weren't, I'd say You have to be interested because you're doing it all day long," she said.

Even when the students love what they do, the camp still offers a variety of new experiences. Some campers have dabbled in broadcast news before, but they admit it was never like this. "Working with all this equipment and piecing together actual news pretty cool," one student agreed. "I'm into TV all the way, I want to be an anchor." She glances at the ceiling. "If law school doesn't work Above everything else, everybody stresses the human aspect to all this hard work.

"The people here are really nice," said Sylvia Szczebanik. With the ever-present deadlines hovering just over the horizon, that seems pretty important "You don't teach like you do during the school year," Digby-Junger admits. "High school kids have their own particular way of dealing with things." That means decreasing the degree of seriousness, and trying to make the experiences more fun-oriented, Digby-Junger said. "It is fun," says one student, laughing. "We do have fun." And learn.

4, like to actually teach journalism because it might be something I want to do someday." Responding to almost continuous guidance and suggestion on the parts of Montesanto and other counselors, the students at the TV center have found themselves improving daily. This is about as close to real TV as you're going to get on any college campus," Montesanto said. A student hurries by to edit videotape, several students are reading broadcast copy aloud to themselves. For Montesanto, the best part is watching the students improve not only their writing and editing abilities, but also their confidence. One girl didn't want to go out and report at first, then discovered she enjoyed it once she actually did it.

And "doing it" is exactly what all the journalism campers are occupied with. In the TV center's control room, Sarah Bachmann is ripping copy and separating her scripts. "We're learning a lot about professional-style journalistic writing rather than just school-newspaper style," she explained, while still ripping copy for a newscast now only an hour away. "I like it because it gives a conformity to our writing." Even better, Bachmann hopes to take some of the skills she learns at camp back to her high school. By James Janega Contributing Writer Melissa Smigelski, 15, taps away at the computer keyboard, frowns, makes a correction.

Satisfied as she re-reads her work, she nods and goes on to write the bulk of her story. Smigelski is one of twenty-four journalism students from several Chicago-area high schools attending the Northern Illinois University Summer Journalism Camp. Like her professional, big-city counterparts, she's working on a daily newspaper. "It helps the high schools improve the quality of their student newspapers," said Dr. Rich Digby-Junger, assistant professor at NIU's now-merged Journalism-Communications Department.

The students put out a daily camp newspaper for other campers or on-campus personnel, magazine, TV newscasts, he said. "I've been doing it for three years," Digby-Junger said of the program that has been off-and-on since the 1960s. "The most rewarding part of it is that you get to work with a different kind of a student." Digby-Junger, who his students call "Dr. says the starry-eyed, optimistic point of view the high schoolers bring to the program can be a welcome relief from the practiced cynicism college students take to reporting. Besides that, teenagers have a different take on the situations that shape our lives.

"It's sort of another world," he said, "another view on things." From improving simple grammar and writing skills to assisting students with some of the finer points in interviewing and public affairs reporting, NIU's camp runs the gamut in providing campers with a useful education. In the computer lab that acts as the newsroom for the camp newspaper, laughter echoes out into the hall, along with the causal banter if tinged with a bit of adolescent joking that goes on in just about any professional newsroom. Smigelski is finishing up an article from a press conference that morning with NIU's assistant to the Provost Bertrand J. Simpson, Jr. She takes time out from her high-paced schedule to talk about the camp, actually taking her schedule in stride, as well as the close-quarters back at the dorm: "It's more fun that way," she said.

"You get to meet more people." 7 perience as much as the students. "It's good to see them improve over the week," she said. "Their writing gets so much better. And it's good to see the papers they put out and how proud they are of themselves that they got it done." Liza Lundholm almost looks out-of-place walking around the newsroom, (Lundholm is one of the senior editors at NIU's North-em Star), but her role here is to provide veteran assistance to young print reporters covering the campus and city beats. Working with the students is almost a vacation for Lundholm.

"It's been nice to not have to worry so much about nit-picky little things," she confides as she watches the young reporters hard at work. "It's fun. They're having fun." A block further down Stadium Drive on NIU's campus, another newsroom is humming with deadline pressures. Eight other campers are getting ready for a newscast at NIU's Northern Television Center. Like Lundholm at the "print" newsroom, veteran TV reporter Steve Montesanto is making the rounds in the "broadcast" newsroom.

He drives for an hour every day just to get to the camp. Why so much dedication? "Because I want to do the Journalism Camp," he said. "I wanted to see what it would be But some students aren't too enthusiastic about the none-too-spacious accommodations in NIU's Grant Towers South. "I feel like I'm shoulder to shoulder with everyone," said Amanda Serafin. "We felt like sardines in a can." But she said the course work wasn't too bad.

"It's fun," said Francena McGirt, who is working on the camp's weekly news magazine, "There is a little bit of pressure, but not a lot." McGirt will be going into college in the fall, hopefully to major in journalism. Despite the day-on and stay-on nature of the work, or maybe thanks to it, students are noticing their own improvement. "You have to get the paper out that same day," Avril Horace laughs. "At school, you get a month to do a couple of stories. But I guess this is better, because you get the challenge of getting things done quicker." And students aren't the only ones feeling the pressures of the week-long course.

Head Counselor Christy Frechette, in her second-year with the program and a double-major in journalism and political science, feels the challenge too. "Biggest challenge:" she smiles wryly, "getting them to go to bed on time." Aside from that, Frechette gains from the ex- drugs The 127th Kane County Fair, July 18-23, Kane County Fairgrounds. Admission $7 adults, $4 children, daily. Barn Dance, July 21, 7:15 p.m., and Farm Breakfast, July 22, 8-11 a.m. at the Garfield Farm Museum, five miles west of Geneva off Route 39 on Garfield Road.

For information, call 708-584-8485. Dupage County Air Show, July 22-23, at the Charlcstownc Mall, 3800 E. Main St. Charles. Scottish Highland Games, July 29, time: TBA, at David Oakcs Davis Park, Rockford.

For more information, call 815-229-3198. Northern Public Radio's 2nd annual CD and Record Sale, July 29-30, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at NPR's facility, 801 N. First St. County Summer Festival, July 30, noon-5 p.m., at Kishwaukcc Community College, featuring activities for adulLs and children.

SAAS, a support group for survivors of sexual assault, will meet July 24, p.m., at the Ben Gordon Center. For information, call 815-758-7922. CH.A.DDStep by Step, a support group for children and adults with A.D.D., will meet July 25, 8 p.m., at St. Mary's Church office basement, 321 Pine DeKalb. For information, call 815-758-2818.

Hourglass Chapter, a chapter of the Manic Depressive Association, July 25, 7:30 p.m., will meet at Kishwaukcc Community Hospital. For information, call 815-748-3783. OURS of Northern Illinois, an adoption support group, will meet July 25, 9:30 a.m. For location and information, call 815-234-8158. Al-Anon Family Croup, will meet July 27, p.m., and July 23, 8-9 p.m., at the Kishwaukcc Community Hospital.

For information, call 815-895-81 19. Ricky Skaggs appears at the Summcrwood Amphitheater, 2223 N. Mulford Rockford, July 22-23. Call 815-877-7065 for show-times. Cecelia Kafer's voice student recital, July 23, 2 p.m., at the Newman Catholic Center, N1U.

For information, call 815-748-4582. DeKalb Municipal Band, July 25, 8 p.m., at Hopkins Park, featuring Tim Rczash and Mclvin Warner. Chamber Music, July 26, noon, at NlU's recital hall. Scott Stevenson Trio, July 27, 7 p.m., at the Lincoln Park Gacbo, St. Charles.

Woodstock Mozart Festival, July 28-29, at the Woodstock Opera House, 121 Van Burcn Woodstock. Call 815-338-5300 for tickets. PI11I.IHMI..II II mill I WIWttlM .11 Terminal Cafe, by John Tuttlc, presented by the Northern Illinois Theatre Ensemble, July 14-Aug. 13, at the Bailiwick Arts Center, 1229 W. Belmont, Chicago.

Cabaret International, by Chuck Mocnes, July 23, 8 p.m.. at the Clock Tower Resort, Rockford. Admission $18, $15 for students, with a two-for-one special. Into the Woods, by Stephen Son-dhcim, Aug. 3-9, 8:15 p.m., at the Stage Coach Theatre, DeKalb.

Admission $7. For information, call 758-1940. Food and a potentially lethal mixture CO CSJ dmirmtrating Uif Follow the physician's instructions By Jo Ann Skabo Special to the Chronicle If you take medication with little thought to the beverages or foods you have consumed recendy, you're not alone. Few people realize that every drug we take, whether by prescription or over the counter, interacts in some way with the foods we eat The presence of food or beverages in the stomach may affect how the drug works, by either slowing down or speeding up the drug's passage through the stomach and intestines to the area of the body where the drug is needed. "On an empty stomach, the drug is absorbed through the small intestine faster than on a full stomach, and it may begin working faster," said Karen Chapman, University of Illinois Extension specialist foods and nutrition.

"Yet some drugs should be taken with a meal because they irritate the stomach." The type of food consumed also can alter how effectively drugs are absorbed in the body. Fiber, for example, can bind with certain drugs, reducing their effectiveness. Soda pop, acidic fruit and vegetable juices can increase stomach acid, causing some medications to dissolve more quickly in the stomach. Fat on the other hand, can increase absorption of some drugs. Fat leaves the stomach slowly, which in turn slows the drug's release into the small intestine.

The most hazardous food-drug interaction is that of monoamine oxidase (MOA) inhibitors with foods containing tyramine, such as cheeses, raisins, chicken and beef liver. Those drugs are prescribed for depression or high blood pressure. The interaction can raise he blood pressure to dangerous levels. It is almost always dangerous to mix alcohol with drugs, said Chapman. When alcohol is taken with antibiotics, rapid heartbeat and blurred vision can result Alcohol also can cause deep sedation and a severe drop in body temperature when taken with antidepressants, and bleeding from the stomach lining when mixed with aspirin.

When alcohol is taken with sedatives or sleenine Dills, unconsciousness or coma could result exactly to maximize drug effectiveness Avoid unnecessary over-the-counter drugs Bf Keep your doctor informed of all the medication you take Contact your doctor about any unusual symtoms that develop after eating certain foods Eat a well-balanced diet Always consult your pharmacist if you have any questions about a drug 251 CD i.