Student Life // Parents' Club Articles

New graduated licensing requirements for teens 15-19 years of age became law on January 1, 2008.  For a summary of these laws, click here. To access additional detail on the State of Illinois Web site about graduated licensing, click here.

Some interesting articles on some ominous trends:

• Indulging our kids, ourselves

• Fatherly advice to save your life in NIU-style disaster

• Homecoming, “hooking up” and "friends with benefits"

• What is grinding? (And guess who’s doing it?)

Please read the following articles about teenage drinking. We all need to work together to keep our children safe:

• Underage drinking is not inevitable

• A child who reaches age 21 without smoking, abusing alcohol or using drugs is virtually certain never to do so.

• What are teenagers, some as young as 14, doing out at 2 in the morning?

• Teens tell who gives them their booze.

• Who's buying the beer?

• Governor signs law cracking down on parents for underage drinking.

For additional information on how to stop underage drinking, visit the U.S. Government's Web site by clicking here.