2008 Woodie Awards
The Ins and Outs of YUNMUN XV
Shuey Jacoby
Issue date: 2/15/05 Section: Features
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Automobile emissions continue to hurt the global environment and it is up to you to change that; build a coalition of nations who support your plan for change, knowing a part of the world's fate lies in your decisions. Sound like a situation a respected foreign diplomat might encounter at a summit meeting? Try a high school kid on a college-sponsored conference.
Yeshiva's Office of Admissions organizes a number of events intended to raise high school students' interest in attending Yeshiva. Such events include the Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament, the Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament, and most recently, the Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN), which brings together over 500 high school students from 40 schools all over the continent to debate various global issues.
For the first time ever, and in fact due to oversight, this year's YUNMUN XV, February 6-8, was held on Super Bowl Sunday. Traditionally, the conference is held on either the first or second Sunday in February. However, when YUNMUN was scheduled, no one, not even the hotel, realized that the game would be held in February, rather than January, as is typical. Taking the game's importance to high school students into account, the coordinators decided to give each committee game updates every 20 minutes, and to end the first session early enough for the students to catch the fourth quarter.
YUNMUN is structured as follows: Each high school represents a nation, or a multiple of nations, and the nation's students, known as delegates, are spread out through 15 committees. Committees range from the Security Council to the standard General Assembly committees, such as the United Nations Environment Program, and even the International Court of Justice.
Each committee is headed by a chairman/chairwoman, who are assisted by an assistant chair and an administrative assistant, all Yeshiva or Stern students. Eli Isak, Secretary General of YUNMUN XV (YC '05), noted that "this is the time to showcase YU students."
Yeshiva's Office of Admissions organizes a number of events intended to raise high school students' interest in attending Yeshiva. Such events include the Henry Wittenberg Wrestling Tournament, the Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament, and most recently, the Yeshiva University National Model United Nations (YUNMUN), which brings together over 500 high school students from 40 schools all over the continent to debate various global issues.
For the first time ever, and in fact due to oversight, this year's YUNMUN XV, February 6-8, was held on Super Bowl Sunday. Traditionally, the conference is held on either the first or second Sunday in February. However, when YUNMUN was scheduled, no one, not even the hotel, realized that the game would be held in February, rather than January, as is typical. Taking the game's importance to high school students into account, the coordinators decided to give each committee game updates every 20 minutes, and to end the first session early enough for the students to catch the fourth quarter.
YUNMUN is structured as follows: Each high school represents a nation, or a multiple of nations, and the nation's students, known as delegates, are spread out through 15 committees. Committees range from the Security Council to the standard General Assembly committees, such as the United Nations Environment Program, and even the International Court of Justice.
Each committee is headed by a chairman/chairwoman, who are assisted by an assistant chair and an administrative assistant, all Yeshiva or Stern students. Eli Isak, Secretary General of YUNMUN XV (YC '05), noted that "this is the time to showcase YU students."