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This week's newsletter has information on yesterday's (Wednesday's) Middle School Model U.N. session; next week's session as well as this coming Saturday's high school discussion. Finally, we have a new survey on the amount of coverage the media is giving the Pope's death.

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Discussion Group This Saturday Morning!


Our next Civitas Discussion Group for high school students is this Saturday, April 9. It will be at Crossroads School (link to map at end of story), beginning at 9:00 AM and carrying until 11:00 AM.

This will be a "wide-open" discussion group with students determining the topics of their choice. However, possible issues include the role of the pope in the Catholic church, expected foreign policy issues in Campaign '2006, the beginning of a new baseball season, and more.

If any student has a question about the discussion he or she may E-Mail us at [email protected].


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First Middle School Session of 2005 Successful

We want to thank students and teacher from St. Mary Magdalen, Queen of All Saints, and Saeger Middle School who did an excellent job in our first Middle School Model U.N. session of the year. The students passed resolutions on safe drinking water, refugees, and the banning of child soldiers. We have a link to the revised resolutions at the bottom of this article.

Next Wednesday, April 13, students from Cathedral School, John Burroughs School, Our Lady of Fatima, and St. Francis Cabrini School will have their session. Resolutions for the day include ones on drug abuse, treatment of prisoners, energy and conservation, literacy rate, rights of children in war zones, HIV education in the developing world, global warming, and water quality in the developing world. We may not be able to discuss every resolution, but we will do our best.

The spring General Assemblies will continue every Wednesday morning until May 11th. Most student delegations have already turned in rough drafts of the resolutions to Civitas for feedback and are now working on improving and revising them. If you haven't done this yet, you still have plenty of time to send those resolutions our way! We've been continuously impressed with the critical thinking and creative problem-solving students exhibit in their resolutions. We're looking forward to watching them present their resolutions at the spring General Assemblies and working with their fellow students to tackle these serious world problems.


Middle School Resolutions!

Photos of April 6, 2005 Middle School MUN



How do you regard the amount of media coverage in the United States that has been given to the death of Pope John Paul II?


How do you regard the amount of media coverage in the United States that has been given to the death of Pope John Paul II?

Survey on Amount of Media Coverage of Pope John Paul II's death



Previous Survey Results!


Last week's question was:

The shuttle Discovery is scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy, Florida in May. It will be the first shuttle launch in over two years, when the Columbia had a disastrous re-entry and the entire crew perished. Do you think that the Shuttle Program should continue, or should another program for manned space exploration be inaugurated?


Responses:

1. Yes 7 (70%)

2. No 2 (20%)

3. Not Sure 1 (10%)

COMMENTS ON THE ISSUE

John North; Trust Officer; U.S. Bank

Reallocate NASA funds. I think we know enough about space and satellites can accomplish what we need to know, if there is other research to be done.


Bobbi Clemons; Civitas Staff

I'm confused. That's not really a yes or no question. (Editor's Note: Bobbi's right; the wording of the question is confusing.)


Anthony Keel; S.L.U.H., 2006

With proper maintenance on the shuttles, I see no need to scrap the whole program. One accident doesn't wreck all of the shuttles which I hope we all learned from. They do get old and worn, but if we pay attention they are cheaper and get the job done efficiently I believe. Now our lovely president to my knowledge has already arbitrarily decided to create a new space program designed to go to the moon again using up our tax money anyway. The shuttles are fine; we don't need the moon again, unless it's cheap. Now Mars might be cool if we weren't in the middle of a war or two...


Abigail Henderson; Ridgewood Middle School (Fox), 2010

Nope.


Lisa Henderson; Fox High School, 2008

We'd better explore more of space, because at the rate we're going, we're going to need a new planet soon.


Andrew Lechner; Parkway South High School, 2006

Obviously accidents will occur, that's the problem with new technology. But if we aren't willing to take risks, we will never accomplish anything. Although I grieve with the loss of past astronauts, think how far we've come. At this rate, we will be inhabiting Mars in the next century! Starting a new program will defeat the purpose of all the research acquired thus far. Mistakes happen and we must learn to accept this and continue to support space shuttle flights and other NASA oriented explorations.






World Earth Day

College students & high-school seniors/juniors- the Citizens for Global Solutions of Greater St. Louis invite you to participate in a new essay contest for an all-expenses-paid trip to San Francisco during the first week of June 2005 to participate in the events related to the 31st anniversary international celebration of World Earth Day, organized in cooperation with the UN Environment Programme and evironmental groups in the San Francisco area.

For rules and essay details please click on the link below. The deadline for essays is May 6, 2005.

Link to World Earth Day Information


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