VOL. VI,
No. 16; Tuesday, November 14,
2006
Dear
Arthur,
Today's newsletter includes
(Note: You can now click on the blue hyperlinks below to go
directly to the story!):
- Middle
School Workshop
- Preparation for
High School Model U.N.
- Election Night Watch
and
Phone-a-thon
- Politics &
Corruption
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This week's blog
- China Program & St. Louis
Immigrant Programs from Washington
U.
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Sat.,
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9:00 AM - 2:30
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Radisson Downtown
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Civitas Model
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Sat., 12/16/06 |
9:00 AM - 11:00
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Crossroads |
Discussion Group #6 - Dr. Michael
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MIDDLE SCHOOL WORKSHOP BIG SUCCESS!
Nearly 1,000 middle school students
attended the Civitas model U.N. workshop last yesterday (Monday,
November 13). It was held the Khorassan
Room in the Chase Park Plaza. The program included a
video on the model U.N., as well as a PowerPoint
presentation with considerable information on how the U.N. works
and the roles that students play as delegates. We also had
an interactive activity in which students discussed a mock
resolution on scarcity of textbooks in two schools. In an exciting
conclusion to the morning, Los Flamencos (a flamenco guitar and
dancing group) performed for the students!
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
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We extend special thanks
to four high school students who were of
considerable help to us. They are:
Devarati Das (Metro)
Morgan
DeBaun (Rosati-Kain)
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Megan Favignano (Rosati-Kain)
Zora McGinnis (Metro)
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We extend special thanks to the
Catering & Sales Department of the Chase-Park Plaza as well
as the Chase's Swank Audio-Visual unit who played instrumental
roles in helping the workshop go so well!
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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HIGH SCHOOL MODEL U.N. THIS
SATURDAY!
Regarding the High School Model
U.N.: Click
here
After several weeks of hard work,
Civitas students will participate in their Fall Model U.N.
session this coming Saturday, November 18. This follows
our final preparation session for the high school model U.N. was
last Saturday, November 11. During that workshop we
reviewed all the basic components of how the model U.N.
works. During the second half of the session, students
began writing their own resolutions.
We want to
remind all students that we would like to receive their
resolutions by midnight this coming Wednesday (actually 12:00 AM
on Thursday). If a resolution comes in later, we will
still try to have it printed for the session, but we cannot
guarantee that. Resolutions should be e-mailed to us at [email protected].
We have complete information on the conference
on our web site. Just click on the button below.
Included in the
information is the presentation that we showed last
Saturday. For those of you who tried to play the
presentation on line last week and had trouble, we think that we
have worked out the kinks.
Please
remember that the High School Model U.N. will be on Saturday,
November 18 at the downtown Radisson Hotel (map) from 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM. Parking
is available in a garage to the north of the building. You
can bring your parking tickets to us for validation or
reimbursement.
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 Last Tuesday!
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Thanks to the students, staff, and parents who came
last Tuesday evening to Civitas' first biennial Election
Watch. We followed both local and national races, and even
though our activities ended before the close races were decided,
we had quite a bit of excitement and some excellent
insight. By the way, if you are interested in
comprehensive results from the election, CNN has an excellent
web page at http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/.
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da
Blog:
WILL DEMOCRATIC
CORRUPTION FOLLOW
REPUBLIC CORRUPTION?
The Democrats made a clean sweep of the U.S.
Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, November 7. Polls show that one of
the factors in the Democrats victory was public frustration over
corruption by Republican politicians. However, it does not take too much history to
remember the Republican sweep in 1994 when one of the key issues
they used to sweep the Senate and the House was to play on the
publics condemnation of corruptness among the ruling
Democrats.
Our question is, "Do you think that the upcoming cycle
of Democratic power in Congress will be characterized by similar
corruption to what Republicans have exhibited recently, or do
you think that the Democrats will be better at restraining
themselves?
LINK TO CIVITAS
BLOG:
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WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
WORKSHOP ON CHINA FINE SUCCESS!
Last Sunday, November 12, freshman students from
Washington University gave an outstanding presentation on
current issues with China. A
most attentive crowd was on hand in Wilson Hall with
countless Civitas students.
We extend our deep thanks to all the staff and
students from Washington University who made the program go so
well!
What do you know about
China's
role as a Global
Power?
* China's impact on the
Environment
*
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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We hope that the Washington University students
will be able to give another presentation of the program next
Spring during the first part of a Civitas high school discussion
session. We'll keep you informed on
developments.
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Additional
Links
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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
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Middle School Country Rosters for
2006-2007
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