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VOL. VI,
No. 15; Tuesday, November 7,
2006
Dear
Arthur,
HAPPY ELECTION
DAY!
Today's
newsletter includes
(Note: You can now click on the blue hyperlinks below to go
directly to the story!):
- Middle
School Country
Assignments
- Preparation for
High School Model U.N.
- Election Night Watch
and
Phone-a-thon
- Rock, Scissors,
Paper -- America's Election
Process
- China Program & St. Louis Immigrant
Programs from Washington U.
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PLACE |
ACTIVITIES |
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Tues,
11/07/2006 |
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
Civitas
Office |
t Election Night Watch -
Phone-a-thon for H.S.M.U.N. |
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Sat.,
11/11/06 |
9:00 AM -
12:00
AM |
Crossroads |
Final Prep
Session for M.U.N. |
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Mon.,
11/13/06 |
9:00 AM -
11:30
AM |
Chase-Park
Plaza |
Workshop for Middle School Teachers
and Students |
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Sat.,
11/18/06 |
9:00 AM - 2:30
PM |
Radisson Downtown
Hotel |
Civitas Model
U.N. |
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Sat.,
12/16/06 |
9:00 AM -
11:00
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Crossroads |
Discussion Group #6 - Dr. Michael
DeBaun |
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Civitas Home
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MIDDLE SCHOOL WORKSHOP THIS
MONDAY!
Middle School Model UN is gearing up for
their student workshop at the Khorassan Room of the
Chase Park Plaza next Monday (map and
directions)!
Over 900 students in the program will gather from 9:00
until 12:00 to learn more about the program and how they will
participate in it.
The program promises to be interactive, informative, and
a lot of fun. In an
exciting conclusion to the morning, Los Flamencos (a flamenco
guitar and dancing group) will be performing for the
students!
 Registration begins at 8:15
AM and students don't need to bring anything except a
curious, alert mind!
We can't wait to see everyone there!
Middle School teachers and students
can also access country
rosters for each of the nine Spring dates for
the model U.N. The rosters are available at http://civitas-stl.com/civ0607/MS/MS-country-rosters.htm.
As of
now, six high school students have signed up on-line
to help us with the workshop that morning. They
are:
Genevieve Buthod (Rosati-Kain)
Erin
Casey (Rosati-Kain)
Morgan
DeBaun (Rosati-Kain)
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Megan Favignano (Rosati-Kain)
Philip
Knapp (Edwardsville)
Zora
McGinnis (Metro)
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 If you have any questions about
anything that has taken place to date (most particularly the
country draft), or any upcoming activities, please do not
hesitate to contact Lisa Granich-Kovarik at [email protected] or (314) 865-4704.
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PREPARATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL MODEL U.N.
Regarding the High School Model
U.N.: Click
here
IMPORTANT NOTE:
We need to receive delegate lists for each school from either
faculty advisors or student leaders. You can enter
information on our on-line form by clicking
here, or download a copy
of the form by clicking here (PDF) or here (MS
WORD).
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Election Night Watch & Phone-a-thon Tonight!
Civitas will have its
first semi-annual Election Night Watch tonight (Tuesday,
November 7, 2006) at the Civitas headquarters (232 No.
Kingshighway, Suite #2101; St. Louis, MO 63108) (map
and directions). It will be from 7:00 PM - 10:00
PM. We'll spend part of the time watching election
returns, following election returns on computers, and discussing
the implications of the results. We will also have a
phone-a-thon to recruit more high school students to be
delegates at their model U.N. session on November 18.
In order to attend the election gathering, a student needs to
have signed up on line. If you would like to attend but
have not yet signed up, you may do so by clicking here.
The students who
are currently signed up are Genevieve Buthod, Katie Fanning,
Allison Reed, and Patty Rodriguez. Civitas staff members
Arthur Lieber, Bobbi Clemons, and Lisa Granich-Kovarik will be
in attendance!
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da Blog (a continuation from last
week):
ROCK, SCISSORS, or PAPER
 Election fraud is as old as
elections. Recent
elections have been characterized by everything from dead people
in Chicago being ordered by Mayor Richard Daley to vote for John
F. Kennedy for president to recent photo-ID measures that have
the effect of disenfranchising the poor, the elderly, and the
ill-informed to and the plethora of voting methods we now have
-- some of which are as easy to use as paper and pencil and
others that require a sophisticated computer programmer to
install at a polling place.
Paper ballots can be counted, but
that is tedious and prone to human error. New touch-screen
machines are most confusing to that part of our population that
is not computer-literate, does not use ATM machines, or pays the
grocery store in either cash or food-stamps. Thirty percent of the
touch-screen machines that will be used next Tuesday do not
leave a "paper trail" for verification. Optical scanners are
similar to the machines that grade standardized tests such as
SATs or ACTs. They
are not as "visually exciting" as the touch-machines, but they
have a high rate of accuracy and the voting sheets serve as
their own paper trail.
Add to all of this Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004,
and numerous other jurisdictions with serious errors in voting
tabulation that received less publicity.
Our question is,
"Do you think that the 2006
elections will be more honest and valid than recent elections or
do you think that we still have miles to go to have a system
that really works?"
LINK TO CIVITAS
BLOG:
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OFFER WORKSHOP ON CHINA FOR CIVITAS
STUDENTS and TEACHERS
 And the
date has finally been set....it will be on Sunday afternoon,
November 5, at 2:00 PM (location to be announced).
During the first two weeks of November, Washington
University's freshman International Leadership Program (ILP)
will be putting on a series with the theme of "China: Price of
Power." China's
economic and political rise has had deep implications for
regional leadership (i.e. nuclear proliferation in North Korea),
impact on the environment, domestic human rights and
international political and economic relations; namely with the
United States. The
ILP students are interested in promoting some of these issues to
a high school audience to explore Chinese-U.S. relations in a
presentation and discussion format. Ideally this forum will facilitate the
exchange of ideas between local high school students and
Washington University freshmen so as to establish an academic
community interested in promoting understanding of global
issues.
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Danielle Silber
International Events Coordinator
International & Area Studies
Department
(314) 935 -
8602
[email protected] |
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What do you know about
China's
role as a Global
Power?
� China's impact on the
Environment
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China & U.S. Relations, China & North
Korea
� China, Oil &
Energy
� China & Freedom of
Speech
We invite YOU to a forum
to discuss these issues &
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When: Sunday, November 12 at 2:00 pm
Who:
Wash U Freshmen & High Schoolers
from around STL
Where: Stix House, 6470 Forsyth Blvd. on
Washington University campus (map)
More Info: 935.8602
Brought
to you by Wash U's Int'l Leadership Program
We hope that interested
Civitas students and teachers are willing and able to come to
the "China: Price of Power" program. If you are
interested, please e-mail us at
[email protected] and indicate which of the dates listed
above work best for you!
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Additional
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Civitas Blog
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| Resolutions
(High School U.N.) for 2004-2005
| Checklist
for Writing a Model U.N. Resolution
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Reinventing U.N.Conference Home
Page
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Middle School Country Rosters for
2006-2007
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