By Katie Meuer, Assistant to the Editors
From Dec. 9 through Dec. 12, a small group of Kaneland Model United Nation members headed to Chicago with suitcases full of business attire to be a part of the Chicago International Model United Nations Conference.
“At CIMUN we stay three nights in a hotel in downtown Chicago debating international politics from the point of view of the nations we are assigned,” senior and Model UN President Dylan Draper said.
The members of Model UN each chose from a variety of available United Nations committees for the one that they would represent at the conference.
“I was in the Historical General Assembly,” sophomore Austin Doyle said. “We dealt with issues that occurred before the six-day war and worked on how to prevent it.”
CIMUN is an international conference, so many of the delegates came from countries all over the world.
“I know the representatives of South Africa were actually from South Africa, which is pretty cool,” Doyle said.
Model UN advisor Ryan Malo said he was very pleased with how everyone did at the conference. Two of the delegates took home awards. Senior Jess Corbett won two honorable mentions for her work in the press corps representing two new sources, and Draper was awarded Best Overall Delegate for his committee, OIC.
Malo described this conference as a marathon.
“The delegates have to remain consistent on their policy over an extended period of time, so it is very hard work,” he said.
“I always enjoy this simulation because the people are really great and they run the simulation so well,” Draper said. “It is hard to remember you’re in a hotel building in Chicago, not the UN building in New York City.”
Kaneland’s Model UN club will attend its next conference on Feb. 5, at St. Ignatius College Prep High School in Chicago.