New Member Orientation

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New Member Orientation
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Agenda

• IAA Overview
• Model UN Basics
• UPMUNC
• Your Role as a STAFFER
• What Can You Get Out of UPMUNC?
• Looking Ahead

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What is the IAA?

• International Affairs Association
• Focus on International Affairs
• Largest Club Funding
• 2nd Largest Club Size
• Meeting Time 8PM, Wednesday, in Steiny-D 350
• UPMUNC
• ILMUNC
• INTERCOL
• Special Events
• Community Service
• Speaker Series
• Model UN Summit

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What is Model United Nations?

• Simulation of the United Nations
• Conference
• Committees
• Delegates
• Goal

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www.upmunc.org
Who runs a committee?

• CHAIR
• VICE-CHAIR
• CRISIS DIRECTOR
• ASSISTANT CRISIS DIRECTOR
• STAFFERS
• Before UPMUNC
• During UPMUNC

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Parliamentary Procedure

• Rules by which the UN is run
• Rules by which a MUN committee is run
• Points/Motions
• Speakers list
• Working papers
• Resolutions
• Certain committees follow parliamentary procedure
  strictly, and others dont
• www.upmunc.org

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QUESTIONS

• ABOUT MODEL UNITED NATIONS?

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UPMUNC

• WHAT IS IT?

• Facts
• Just during the Conference

• University of Pennsylvania Model United Nations
  Conference
• With HNMUN The largest, oldest, most
  prestigious college-level Conference in the world

• 43rd Session
• November 12-15, 2009
• 1000 delegates
• 100 Colleges
• 4 Continents
• 200 Staff
• 18 Committees
• 21 Guides
• 8 Special Events
• 2 Training Sessions

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UPMUNC 2009 Committees

• General Assembly
• 200-300 delegates
• Double/single delegation
• Strict PP
• Department of International Security (DISEC)
• Special, Political and Decolonization (SPECPOL)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Social, Cultural and Humanitarian (SOCHUM)

• ECOSOC/Specialized
• 20-50 delegates
• Double/single delegation
• Strict PP
• UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• UN Educational Scientific and Cultural
  Organization (UNESCO)
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

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UPMUNC 2009 Committees

• Crisis
• 15-20 delegates
• Loose PP (except SC)
• Security Council
• Ad-Hoc Committee of the Sec-Gen
• North Korean Cabinet of 2013
• Somali Cabinet
• Bolshevik Revolution of 1917

• 6. Origins of the Second World War
• 7. Iranian Council of Ministers
• 8. LOST
• 9. Mafia Wars of the 1920s

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Your Role as a STAFFER

• Pre-Conference
• Research your committee topics
• Write update papers
• Learn Parliamentary Procedure (attend Staff
  Training)
• Create crisis simulation videos
• During Conference
• Facilitate debate (as a member of the Dias)
• Chairing
• Type/print resolutions
• Page
• Create crisis videos, news articles, etc.
• Assist with the MONK

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What Can You Get Out of UPMUNC?

• Learn more about your topic/Model UN Experience
• Learn how to staff a committee
• Pre-Conference Staff bonding events, Pre-UPMUNC
  Party
• Free weekend at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel
• During Conference
• New Member Social
• Cocktail Night
• Pub Crawl around Philly
• Movie Night
• Staff Suite
• Delegate Fest
• Opportunity to make long-lasting friendships

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Looking Ahead

• Attend first committee meeting
• Second committee meeting will take place in
  October
• Please make sure you have
• Been contacted by chair USG
• Been contacted about first committee meeting
• Read your Background Guide
• Began work on update papers

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QUESTIONS?

• IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS/CONCERNS/HAVE NOT BEEN
  STAFFED PLEASE EMAIL ADITI (ME) AT
• aditim_at_sas.upenn.edu

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THANK YOU