by Holden Lamberson | Aug 11, 2020 | Editorial
If I could only give one piece of advice to a new delegate, it would be to never write out your opening speech. Better yet, never write out any of your speeches. This tip probably contradicts what many delegates have been told, but abandoning the use of prepared...
by Maulik Bairathi | Jul 30, 2020 | Community
Cheating in Model UN can be immensely irritating to anyone who plays by the rules. However, dealing with cheating in Model UN is not always a straight forward process, as it can be very subtle, and reporting cheating is difficult because it is an awkward process that...
by Iman Shumburo | Mar 24, 2020 | MUN Articles, Strategy
The staple of every major college-run Model UN conference is the massive, standard General Assembly; be it DISEC, SOCHUM, or SPECPOL, these committees can sometimes contain as many as 300 delegates, or more. It goes without saying, then, that making yourself known in...
by Alyssa Nguyen | Mar 3, 2020 | MUN Articles, Strategy
The end product of any General Assembly, Specialized Agency, or Regional Body Model UN committee is a resolution which the committee votes on as a whole. Before the voting process, however, comes hours of vigorous and often meticulously detailed debate during which...
by Benjamin Knight | Oct 28, 2019 | Feature Article, MUN Articles
In Model UN, we pay so much attention to the individualized details: how to research, speak, or even dress, in order to be most effective. What is noticed less, though, is the intersection of these things: the ways in which we pull all of these things together. In my...