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MANHAMAN NEIGHBORHOODS Greece, South America and the Far East, among others, will be on display at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, West 112th Street. The exhibit is open between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from noon to 5 p.m.

on Sunday. Phone Items to (212) 303-2850 town platform. The Committee for Astor Place, which was instrumental in getting the station's facelift, has been pressuring the TA to keep the booth open around the clock for convenience and security. Astor Place is the only station on the Lexington Avenue line that does not have a full-time booth serving both platforms. At the end of the experiment, turnstile counts will determine permanent hours of operation, the TA said.

GREENWICH VILLAGE Token Experiment at Astor Place The token booth at the downtown entrance to the Astor Place subway station is now open 24 hours a day during a six-month experiment. Before a restoration of the station, now one of the showpieces of the system, there was an underground passage between the uptown and downtown platforms. The booth had been open from 2 to 10 p.m. weekdays. Passengers entering the downtown side without a token when the booth was closed could use the passageway to reach the booth on the uptown side, which is open 24 hours a day.

But because the passageway attracted vagrants and muggers, the Transit Authority bowed to community pressure and closed it. That meant passengers without tokens would have to buy them on the uptown side, go back upstairs and cross the street to enter the down- FOOTNOTE City-as-School Seeks Restless as Students City-as-School, the alternative city high school that allows students to get out into the working world as part of their studies, is now interviewing for admission in February. Students in any of the city's schools are eligible to apply to the "school without walls," but preference will be given to students who have completed 10th grade. Further information is available at (718) 691-7801 weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS The World View of Ex-Teacher About five years ago, retired school teacher Sophie Aksel left the world of education and made her first tentative steps into the world of photography. Through the month of December, 30 of Aksel's photographs, of regional and folk dancers from MANHATTAN CLOSEUP Stay Tuned: Teens Turn Tables on Adults By Matthew Shelter For TVvnv Kim. a junior at Stuyvesant High School, in Manhattan, it a chance to turn the tables. "We're the he said. "We're putting the adults on the defensive." Kim is among 15 city students who will be questioning education experts on the next edition of the radio show "Kids Views on the News." The show, which will air live on Dec.

11, will explore the effectiveness of teaching moral, religious, and sexual values in the classroom. The program began earlier this fall on WNYE-FM, a radio station run by the Board of Education. The idea is to give high school and junior high school students a VmTn-a to interview the adult decision-makers who affect their lives. "I think it's a great opportunity to get kids' views across," said 15-year-old Andrew Pollick, a classmate of Kim's. Pollick and Mike Warner, a senior at Richmond Hill High School, in Queens, are the moderators of the half-hour program.

They begin each show by announcing Vk iuiiu Vint will he dis Photo by B. A. Luckcy Jr. Jennifer Eagen and Michael Warner prepare for another program of "Kids1 Views on the News." Reissman has shown them how to explore all sides of an issue, and to feel confident with their opinions. "Ms.

Reissman taught us how to think on our own and to voice our feelings," said Snider. Reissman said the first show generated a good deal of praise from parents, teachers and community leaders. "We had a tremendous response," she said. But it was also apparently quite popular among teenagers who tuned in. Jennifer Eagen, a 17-year-old student at Richmond Hill High, who works on the school's radio station, WHIL-AM, said the students she talked to felt the show on drugs was more informative than anything their teachers were doing.

"The fact that it's run by students means a lot to kids who are listening," she said. The Dec. 11 show will be broadcast live between 5 and 5:30 p.m. from Brooklyn Technical High School on WNYE-FM 91.5. room debates she held on issues that concerned students.

"If you give kids a chance to run something, they can handle it on their own," she said. Everything from the topic of the show to the list of questions is decided by the students. They even picked the theme song for the upcoming show show "The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan. But in some ways, the times haven't changed that much. During a production meeting for the Dec.

11 show, some of the students sounded very much like their elders when they spoke about the Board of Education's plan to dispense contraceptives in schools. "In a way, it's encouraging sex," said Peter Phung, a junior at Midwood High School, in Brooklyn, who disapproved of the plan. Some of the other students disagreed with Phung, and an impromptu debate erupted. One thing the students do agree on is that cussed, then they introduce the panel, which usually includes college professors, journalists, religious leaders and administrators from the Board of Education. After the introduction, the students ask their guests the questions they have prepared in advance, and then the floor is opened for nminn Since the show is live, anything fan happen once the questioning begins.

The first show, which dealt with drug abuse in the schools, was broadcast Oct 8. The students got some talk-show experience then, learning that guests don't always conform to the format of a live radio program. "Some people too much, others not enough," said Maren Snider, a freshman at Edward R. Mur-row High School, in Brooklyn. "We were really crammed for time," she said.

"Kids Views on the News" is the brainchild of Rose Reissman, an English teacher at Dit-xnas Junior High School in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The program grew out of weekly class-.