Model United Nations Team Wins Top Honors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2001
Amy Thompson
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Model United Nations Team Wins Top Honors
Student delegates from California State University, Chico won two top awards for the second year in a row at the 2001 National Model United Nations conference held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City from April 10 through April 14.
The Model U.N. team, who represented the Netherlands in the contest, took home awards for the Outstanding Position Paper, which recognizes excellent pre-conference preparation, and for the Distinguished Delegation, which recognizes excellence during the conference.
The conference, which is the largest college conference in the world, hosted 2,500 students from 200 schools around the world. Students act as delegates on 36 U.N. topics for a country they were assigned to months before the conference.
This year, the CSU, Chico team was assigned their first choice for a country to represent. The competition consisted of 212 delegations representing 189 member states, three permanent observers and 20 non-governmental organizations.
The Model U.N. team is made up of students who are enrolled in Political Science 242, “International Organizations.” The class competes in a four-day conference in Las Vegas, where they learn about several countries by acting as ambassadors. The top leaders from the conference are then chosen to represent Chico at the national conference.
The National Model United Nations conference started in 1923 as a simulation of the League of Nations before adopting its present form in 1946.
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