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VOL. VI, No.
31; Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Dear Arthur,
Today's newsletter includes
(Note: You can now click on the blue hyperlinks below to go
directly to the story!):
First
Activity for
Urban Go-Team this
Saturday, March 17
Line-up for
First Two Middle School Model
U.N. Sessions this
week
Newspaper Article in Suburban Journals
on "Who Gets to Belong to the
Nuclear Club"
Conference?
Info
on
Local UNA-USA Adult Model
U.N.
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"Urban Go-Team"
Begins this Saturday, March 17
 The map at the right is an aerial
view of the neighborhood surrounding Crossroads School
(Crossroads is located at the site of the red push pin).
On Saturday, in our first 2007 Urban Go-Team project,
we will be doing a walking tour of the neighborhood.
What's the benefit of this exercise
besides...besides a little
exercise? Improving our urban observation
skills.
Within just a few blocks of the
school is a
myriad of land use -- single family dwellings, multi-family
dwellings, commercial use, government buildings, office space,
park land, and
much
more. Most vibrant communities are diverse such as the
Skinker-DeBaliviere
neighborhood where Crossroads is located. On Saturday,
we'll divide into groups and walk the streets of the
neighborhood and make a series of land-use maps. We'll
reassemble at Crossroads and put together our observations.
We are firmly committed to the notion that communities
can best be designed to meet citizen needs if the citizenry is
intelligent and informed. On Saturday we hope to sharpen
your "urban intelligence" and provide you with more vital
information.
Don't worry; we'll also have time for
general discussion, and of course, food! By the way, the
preliminary weather forecast for Saturday is 54o and
cloudy.
Civitas will once again have a program
this summer in which students can intensely learn and act
upon urban issues in our metropolitan area. We'll do some
studying, we'll have lots of field trips, we'll have interesting
speakers, and we'll even try out some tasty restaurants.
We're either going to call the program the Urban Go-Team or "Show Me the Money in St.
Louis!"
This Saturday's session is
the opening session of several this Spring of
our "2007 Urban Go-Team:
Show Me the Money
in St. Louis" project. It will culminate
with a one week seminar the week of July 30 - August 3.
If you are interested in being a member of the Urban Go-Team, it is not
too late. Just show up on Saturday or e-mail us at urban-go-team@civitas-stl.com.
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Middle School Model U.N. Sessions
Begin this Week
 After nearly seven months of
preparation, middle school model U.N. sessions will begin this
week (no, this isn't spring training; this is the real
season!). All sessions will be held at the Creve Coeur
Government Center (map;) and run from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (it's
always advisable to arrive early!). Here's the lineup for
this week:
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Wednesday, March
14
City Academy
Hoech Middle School (Ritenour
District)
Lift for Life Academy
St. Margaret
Academy
Resolutions are on:
Global Warming
HIV/AIDs
Air
Pollution
Trafficking in Children
Education
Child
Abuse |
Thursday, March 15
Cathedral School
St. Francis Cabrini
St. Mary Magdalen
St. Roch
Resolutions are on:
Deforestation
Fresh Drinking
Water
Unemployment
Poaching
Radical Groups
Drug Trafficking |
There will be seven more sessions, resuming on Wednesday,
April 25. Teachers who have not yet submitted resolutions
for those sessions should e-mail them to granichkovarik@sbcglobal.net.
If you have any questions, call Lisa at (314) 865-4704.
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Story on Civitas Nuclear
Conference In Suburban Journals
Last Wednesday, March 7, the Suburban
Journals published in its Citizen, Mid-County, and
Kirkwood-Webster editions an article on Civitas' February "Who
Gets to Belong to the Nuclear Club?" conference. It was written by Parkway North H.S. junior
Teresa Ghidey. The article is
expected to run in the West County Journal tomorrow
(Wednesday, March 14). You can read the article by clicking here. Congratulations to
Teresa!
Readers who would like more information on the
conference can access it by clicking here.
In related news,
St. Joseph's Academy Junior Molly
Madden may begin an internship with the Suburban
Journals.
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United Nations Assn. of STL Sponsors Adult MUN on Sunday, March 25
 Adults are invited to participate in an Adult
Model UN Program on Sunday, March 25, 2007, from 2 to 4:30 p.m.,
in the Dining Hall of Christian Brothers College High School,
1850 De La Salle Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63141 (off of North
Outer Forty Road, west of 270 and just east of the Mormon
Temple).
Interested persons should contact
Dr. James Dohle at (314) 985-6100, ext. 4010, or dohlej@cbchs.org.
The session will be conducted by
Arthur Lieber and/or Dr. Jim Kerr.
The cost is a $10 contribution to
the United Nations Association of Greater St.
Louis.
Delegates may submit countries
that they wish to represent by March 10. Final selections will be
conducted and delegates contacted by March 20. Possible topics include
international security; economic and social development; human
rights and the responsibility of states to protect their own
citizens; UN reform and weighted voting; and global
warming.
It is not necessary to submit a
resolution but if people want to submit one in advance, they
should send it as an attachment to Dr. Dohle at dohlej@cbchs.org.
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Unfortunately, Civitas Not Going to
Civil Rights Game
Civitas was looking forward to taking
students to the first annual baseball civil rights game to be
held this year in Memphis, TN on Saturday, March 31.
Unfortunately, we did not have enough students sign up to make
the trip financially worthwhile.
Nevertheless, a
Civitas trip to Memphis at another time is definitely a
possibility. If the Civil Rights
 Museum there doesn't get to you, it's
hard to imagine what will. But that can be for another
day. In the meantime we can avoid the embarrassment of
having the Cardinals appear in this Civil Rights game as they
have one (count 'em, one) African-American player (Preston
Wilson) on their roster. What a shame! What a
contrast to David Halberstam's great book 1964 in which
he contrasts the maturely integrated Cardinal world champion
team of that year to the almost lilly white Yankee team that
they defeated in the World Series. The one piece of
current good news is that Cardinal Hall of Famer Lou Brock is
working on a book on Jackie Robinson. For now, we can only
ask, "where have you gone Mr. Robinson -- and
all the Redbirds for whom you paved the way into the major
leagues?"
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| Resolutions
(High School U.N.) for 2004-2006
| Checklist
for Writing a Model U.N. Resolution
| Conference (Feb., 2007)
on "The Nuclear
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