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VOL. VI, No.
32; Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Dear Arthur,
Today's newsletter includes
(Note: You can now click on the blue hyperlinks below to go
directly to the story!):
Upcoming
Events for Balance of
2006-2007 School Year
Report from first
two Middle School
Model U.N. Sessions last week
Urban
Go-Team frozen out last
Saturday; will try again on Saturday, March 31
Info
on
Local UNA-USA Adult Model
U.N.
Not
enough interest in Civil Rights
Game in Memphis
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Upcoming Events
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ACTIVITIES |
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Sat.,
03/31/07 |
9:00
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Crossroads |
Urban
Go-Team Activity #01-A |
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Sat.,
04/14/07 |
9:00 AM -
11:00 AM |
Crossroads |
Discussion Group #10 |
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Wed., 04/25/07 |
9:00
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C.C.G.C. |
Middle School Model U.N. Session
#3 |
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Thurs.,
04/26/07 |
9:00 AM - 12:00
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C.C.G.C. |
Middle
School Model U.N. Session
#4 |
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Fri.,
04/27/07 |
9:00 AM - 12:00
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C.C.G.C. |
Middle
School Model U.N. Session
#5 |
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Sat.,
04/28/07 |
9:00
AM -
11:30
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Crossroads |
Urban Go-Team Activity #2 |
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Wed.,
05/02/07 |
9:00 AM - 12:00
PM |
C.C.G.C. |
Middle
School Model U.N. Session
#6 |
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Thurs.,
05/03/07 |
9:00 AM - 12:00
PM |
C.C.G.C. |
Middle
School Model U.N. Session
#7 |
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Fri.,
05/04/07 |
9:00 AM - 12:00
PM |
C.C.G.C. |
Middle
School Model U.N. Session
#8 |
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Thurs.,
05/10/07 |
9:00 AM - 12:00
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C.C.G.C. |
Middle
School Model U.N. Session
#9 |
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Sat.,
05/12/07 |
9:00 AM
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11:30
AM
12:00 PM
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3:00
PM |
Crossroads
Junior High
Park in Maplewood |
Urban Go-Team
Activity #3
Picnic &
Softball |
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Mon.,
05/21/07 |
4:00 PM - 5:00
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Chevy's in
Crestwood |
Middle School Teacher Meeting
#4 |
Rev., March 19,
2007
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Middle School Model U.N. Sessions Off to Excellent Start
 After nearly seven months of
preparation, middle school model U.N. sessions had the
first of their nine Spring sessions last
week. We had very lively debate and discussion
and some excellent resolutions passed.
The schools
that participated last Wednesday were City Academy, Hoech Middle
School (Ritenour District), Lift for Life Academy, and St.
Margaret School. On Thursday, these schools participated:
Cathedral School, St. Francis Cabrini, St. Mary Magdalen, and
St. Roch.
Below you will see a listing of the
resolutions that were considered. You can click on the
hotlinks and read each of them.
 There are seven more
sessions. Our next one will be on Wednesday,
April 25. Teachers for this session and other upcoming
ones who have not yet submitted resolutions for those sessions
should e-mail them to Lisa at [email protected]. If you have any questions, call Lisa at
(314) 865-4704.
All sessions are held at the
Creve Coeur Government Center (map;)
and run from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (it's always advisable to arrive
early!).
See more photos
here.
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"Urban Go-Team" Frozen Out; Next Event on Saturday, March
31
For those of you who missed
last Saturday's Urban Go-Team activity, in reality you
missed a great discussion. Either it was just
too cold for us to go out and explore (36o),
or at least one staff member (Arthur) was too much of a
wimp. In any event, we stayed indoors at Crossroads and
had an outstanding conversation on the current issues related to
a possible state take-over of the St. Louis public
schools. Special thanks to Jessica Davie (Soldan, '07) who
provided us with such a wealth of primary source material to
help us in discussing the situation. [By the way, you can
view a 19 minute video of city students meeting with Mayor Slay
last Thursday by clicking here.]
We have
rescheduled the Urban Go-Team
Activity #1 for Saturday, March 31 from 9:00 AM
- 11:30 AM. The map above is an aerial view of the
neighborhood surrounding Crossroads School (Crossroads is
located at the site of the red push pin). You can
click on the photo to see an enlarged version of the area.
On March 31, 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 March 31 we hope to
sharpen your "urban intelligence" and provide you with more
vital information.
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 [email protected].
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United Nations Assn. of STL Sponsors Adult MUN this 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 [email protected].
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 [email protected].
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Unfortunately, Civitas Not Going to Civil Rights Game
Again, 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 (and by the way, manager Tony LaRussa is
having a small feud with him at this time). What a
shame! What a contrast to David Halberstam's great book
1964 in which he differentiates between 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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