Keep on going straight ahead–it looks like it’s somewhere southwest of the breastbone. “When I tell people I’m a cartographer, they think I’m a heart surgeon,” says UIC department of geography staff mapmaker Raymond Brod, quoted in UIC News (February 24).
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Moral debate at the grass roots, as recorded by an anonymous teacher diarist at an unnamed city public school in Catalyst (April): “One [Local School Council] member wanted only the clinics and drug stores to handle the condoms. She called for teaching abstinence and insisted that moral values be taught as part of any comprehensive health education program. Two other committee members took issue at once, saying that moral values were relative and should not be forced on others.” Later on, “a staff member asked if parents would be asked for permission to give away the condoms. ‘Of course not,’ said another. ‘That would defeat the purpose. The whole point is to get the condoms to the students no matter what.’ The majority agreed with the latter view.” Evidently moral values are more “relative” at some times than others.
Your tax dollars at play. Students applying for financial aid to the downstate Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois should watch their bureaucratic geography. For 1993-’94 the U.S. Department of Education has determined that the U. of I. officially exists only in Champaign–so information from students who designate it as being located in Urbana may not be forwarded to the school.
Pacifism is where you find it. Governor Edgar has announced that this summer the Illinois National Guard will teach “non-violent resolution of conflicts” to “disadvantaged youths” at the Northwest Armory, on North Kedzie, and the Jones Armory, on South Cottage Grove.
