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ALICE COOPER Opening Center For Troubled Teens

May 7, 2007

Chris Casacchia of The Business Journal reports:

Alice Cooper made a career of singing about rebellion, drug abuse and booze. Now, he spends much of his time trying to get kids to avoid those vices.

The 59-year-old Detroit native became a cult hero in the '70s to millions of disillusioned teens, and scared the hell out of twice as many parents. In a way, he's revolutionized that label — not for his impressionable lyrics, but for his philanthropic efforts.

In late summer, Cooper and longtime golf buddy Chuck Savale plan to break ground on a $7.3 million teen center on the campus of Grand Canyon University, a private Christian college in west Phoenix.

"The community right around there is economically challenged, a lot of single-parent homes," said Savale, a youth minister. "It will be a great help for the immediate neighborhoods."

Phoenix's social problems among youth are well documented. The city continually ranks low in student achievement and high in teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.

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