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For a number of years, high school students from the Civitas United Nations have gone to Chicago for the Model United Nations of the University of Chicago.  For four days in January or February, 2,500 students gather at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago's Loop and engage in intense debate over complex and highly-detailed issues.  Quite frankly, we have had a number of students who have taken the "MUNUC challenge" and done very well.  We have also had a number who have found it tedious and boring.  It's intense, and it's a fine opportunity for some students.  Presently, our strategy is to attend every other year (next in 2005), but that is always subject to change.

The trip includes a morning of sightseeing in Chicago as well as an event of entertainment at an establishment such as the "Second City Comedy Club."  Travel is by Amtrak; we want to support historic America.