Summer 2006

Delegates to the World

Sounds like another typical day at the United Nations - but it was hardly that. The setting was the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) conference, where nearly 3,000 college students from around the globe gathered for one of the largest annual Model U.N. simulation exercises. The Liberian representative was actually Jason Atwell '09, one of ten Wells students who organized a trip to Boston in February to participate in the conference.

Each student was assigned to a particular committee, in which he or she spent most of the weekend. For example, Maryann Hines '08 and head delegate Nadirah Blassingame '08 joined the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural committee; Ke Huang '09 represented the African Union; and Kate Barnes '07 participated in a new committee, Unilateral Acts of States. Committee meetings were marathon events, with some lasting from early morning to well past 11:00 p.m.

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