Students Urged to Aid War on Violence

Six months after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., President Clinton asked 350 students attending a conference in the nation’s capital to help rid society of “old hatreds and old fears” that spur violent kids and adults. “You live in the most modern of all worlds, and yet the biggest problem we’ve got is the oldest problem of human society: people being scared of people who are different from them. And you can help that,” Clinton told the students, who were selected for the two-day conference by 130 members of Congress. The students will offer their views on why young people become violent and how to prevent school shootings.