A major disruption occured during Saturday's in-committee debate on GA clauses. Whilst Ireland was telling the SciTech committee how useless his submitted clause was, we suffered a massive incursion from the Political committee across the hall, led by their charismatic Head Chair, a one Charlotte Higgins.
The onset of WW3 emerged during debate this morning during GA debate in commitee. It began with Austria declaring war on Isreal resulting in her evction, followed by some scandal between New Zealand and Israel (A little trouble maker by the looks of things?) causing the eviction of both delegates and finally Myanmar and Australia decided to join in on the bant and declared war on Vietnam who readily accepted the challenge and ultimately left us short of 6 delegates in our committee!
Alas, as the sun sets on yet another MUN here at Methodist College, we must ask the question on everyone’s lips, ‘Have we changed the world for the better?’ The short answer is no, because this is a model United Nations. Sorry. Speaking hypothetically, however, if our current crop of delegates proceed to enter politics or become ambassadors, we can feel safe in their hands. From the word go, there was a refreshing lack of, ‘I don’t see the point of this resolution,’ although, as per usual, the hyperbole squad were out in force.
Deledda International School left for Belfast some days ago, so that we asked them about their impressions and expectation for this new challange in the Model UN area. Unfortunately there was not a chance to interview with them all, but at least we've got three different opinions!
The 09 committee had the honour to speak on the recent swine flu (N1H1) pandemic with the honourable senior medical officer Ms Lorraine Doherty, who presented the forecast of the pandemic flu risks, prevention and the development of the virus to the delegates before discussing the resolution submitted by
For someone who was supposed to be in Human Rights, this press team member thoroughly enjoyed banting it up with the lawds’ in Political. Although this unfortunately means that I can’t tell you what happened on Thursday as I was not there.
If you have ever experienced MCBMUN before you will know the importance of bribes in getting along with the chairs (and your ever important press team) so in the interest of better bribes we have prepared our guide to the top ten bribe shops: