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...SOS members are prepared to confront professors before their students in order to push their agenda, they should be bold enough to have the illicit demonstration appear on their permanent record. For that to happen, the Administrative Board would have to consider the case and vote to take disciplinary action against the demonstrators. Leaving this protest unpunished would encourage future cases. Harmful actions must necessarily have consequences on this campus; those which are pre-meditated and highly constructed deserve a forceful and immediate response from the administration. If SOS subscribes to the theory of civil disobedience, it should suffer...
More likely, it appears that the demonstrators were simply players in a drama constructed by Joshua Oppenheimer '96-'97, a leader of SOS. As a special concentrator in Performance, Activism and Cultural Studies, Mr. Oppenheimer may be viewing this as his senior thesis. We give him an C- (with grade inflation...
...even more interesting enterprise is 35 miles southwest of Chicago. The SOS Children's Village in rural Lockport contradicts standard protocol in any number of ways. For one, SOS accepts, or rather seeks, sibling groups, which are difficult to place in foster care. It looks for children 10 and younger -- an age at which most states believe children should still be trying to fit into foster homes. And it does so with the goal of long-term residency that replicates -- and replaces -- family life. "We are a source of frustration for the Department of Children and Family Services," says Village...
...reasons Mathis may sound so sure of his unorthodox arrangement is that the SOS Village, and a sister operation in Florida, are part of a mammoth chain based in Innsbruck, Austria. Founded in 1949 for war orphans, SOS- Kinderdorf International, now established in 124 countries, cares for a total of 180,000 children. In each "village," the concept is the same: long- term residency and house mothers who commit to 20 years with the project...
...Lockport SOS Village has assembled only 10 of a projected population of 60 children. In one house, Toni Wagner, a Franciscan nun from Dubuque, Iowa, cares for an abandoned family of five siblings, who are white. Michele Haldeman, the "mother" next door, oversees five children, all black, from three different families. The two "families" mix happily in the common yard...