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Glass wins second first-place in Model UN simulation
November 24, 2004 | |||||
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KOKOMO, Ind.—For the second consecutive year, the IU Kokomo students received a first place award in the Model United Nations (UN) competition, sponsored by The Indiana Consortium for International Programs. Approximately 120 students from 10 Indiana colleges and universities participated in the 26th annual Model UN, held November 11–13 at the University of Indianapolis. The event simulates the efforts of the United Nations’ Security Council to pass resolutions addressing global issues. Student teams represent the 15 countries of the Security Council in four simultaneously conducted council sessions. This year, students had to research and present positions on current crises in Sudan, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, and North Korea, as well as on the topics “Global Terrorism” and “Children and Armed Conflict.” IU Kokomo students Brad Glass of Windfall and Chad Andrews of Sharpsville won one of the four “Best Delegation” awards for their representation of France. Glass is studying in the campus’ University Division, and Andrews is an English major. Other IU Kokomo delegates included Stephanie Hill of Kokomo, representing Chile; Kyle Etherington of Kokomo and Eric Homkes of Russiaville, representing Pakistan; and Amanda Meyer of Greentown and Jeanie Savage of Tipton, representing Romania. Hill, Meyer, and Savage are all criminal justice majors. Etherington is majoring in history/political science, and Homkes is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Business major Kelly Lavengood of Kokomo served as president of one of the four Security Councils. Glass and Lavengood teamed up in the 2003 Model UN to win a “Best Delegation” award, according to faculty advisor and Professor Emeritus Allen Maxwell, Ph.D. This year’s IU Kokomo delegates were equally “well prepared to represent their states’ positions on the issues,” Maxwell said. “Kelly Lavengood was selected to preside over a council based on her participation in four previous Model UNs and her past experience as a council president in IU Kokomo’s Model UN for area high school students.” Maxwell helped establish both the collegiate and high school programs. “The Model UN simulation enables students to experience first-hand the difficulties in resolving global and regional problems because of differing views of these problems based on their intensely held national interests,” he said. For more information on the Model UN programs through IU Kokomo, contact Assistant Professor of Political Science M. Todd Bradley, Ph.D., at (765) 455-9538 or mtbrdle@iuk.edu.
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