Party, Party, Party

By: Allison Gerth

Last night the delegate dance took place at the Kensington Hotel. After a full day of committee and debate, the delegates were ready to have fun with their friends and change out of their professional-wear. The night was filled with music, dancing, and many people having a fun time. While there were complaints about the DJ and his choice in music, people still danced t and enjoyed themselves. 

At one point in the night, all of the delegates stopped dancing and started to sit down. A delegate who was at the dance stated that “we aren’t dancing to this cause the music is bad. We want the DJ to play good music.'' 

The staffers also enjoyed themselves during the dance as they did small dances with the other chair members on the outskirts of the room. Aside from the complaints about the music, numerous delegates and chairs had a great time at the MUNUM XXXIII delegate dance. Overall, it was successful and everyone able to relax and enjoy themselves with their friends after a long day of committee sessions. 

Release The Students

By: Allison Gerth

The AD-HOC committee could be considered a slower-moving room in terms of its debate, which could be attributed to the fact that the delegates were not allowed to research their committee nor their characters. Currently, the US is at war with Communist North Vietnam. All of the protestors were arrested after their peaceful strike which happened to be in a contested area, even though they held land permits. These staff members and students are debating whether to modify the current land permit system for protesting and whether they should release the protestors or not. 

While dealing with the war between the United States and Communist North Vietnam, the people in the AD-HOC committee were voting on directives. Some directives failed and others passed, but no matter how it ended, there was always debate, including the voices of all three parties — pro-war, anti-war, and unbiased members.

After some debate, a directive sponsored by Robert Briggs was introduced. Briggs claimed that the proposed directive “would allow equality in our decisions involving students.” While some of the members were in support of  Briggs’ directive, it failed in the end. Some members were in favor of finding a compromise, but other members were too headstrong to change their viewpoints. The International Press Corps wishes AD-HOC the best in resolving the issues throughout the rest of their committee sessions.

Bipartisan Bills or Climate Change

By: Allison Gerth

The US House of Representatives committee has been working on climate disaster relief for citizens of the United States throughout the past two committee sessions. While electing representatives to lead the different political parties throughout the weekend, multiple campaign slogans were created. One popular slogan was “ding dong, Dingell for Democrats!”, although she is not representing the democratic party she made it through the first round of elections before losing the race. 

The definition of bipartisan means “of or involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies”. Throughout the committee, a common theme between both parties was talk of bipartisanship, even if it was discussed more than necessary. Arguments between the two parties would happen when bills “leaned toward” one party over another, leading to people of different parties being upset with each other. Lois Frankel, a Democrat representing Florida, stated, “We are currently struggling to figure out a way to adhere to bipartisan principles while also helping our constituents”. During the Democratic party caucus Frankel tried multiple times to have some Representatives focus more on the preparations, responses and short and long term solutions in the same bill for natural disasters. This would be instead of focusing on funding and bipartisanship. While the Democrats were trying to think of short and long term goals for the climate disasters, Republicans were busy working on merging their numerous bills. 

Throughout the party caucus’ happening during the committee, several Republicans wrote bills to try and send to the Senate. Having over ten bills, the Republican Representatives had to work on merging the bills. The Representatives were working to merge a majority of the current bills into one that would be composed of the best qualities of each bill. Overall, the House of Representatives has been especially stuck on the topic of bipartisanship, but many representatives want to further the discussion.

Weimar Republic Moving Forward

By: Allison Gerth

During the very first committee in which political figure heads and government officials of the Weimar Republic convened, there were multiple assassination attempts, heated debates, and more. After over an hour of standstill in the committee between different political groups engaging in conflict, a directive that was finally proposed by President Fredrich Erbert was passed. The directive was “democratically elected through universal suffrage,” in the words of the President, Fredrich Erbert, and it included a list of twelve voters who would vote on all matters to pass resolutions and directives. These voters included six people of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, while the other six people were made up of different smaller parties like the Industrialists and the Centre. However, before this directive passed, other people in this crisis room were plotting against Rosa Luxemburg. Both hit men hired failed to kill Rosa Luxemburg. While one got away, the other was killed before he could disclose who `killed him”. One hitman shot a 1.2 millimeter toxin from an umbrella attempting to poison her, but failed. During this commotion with Luxembourg one of her hired bodyguards was tragically shot and killed. After the attempted assassination took place, Ms. Luxemburg stated, “I am very happy to still be alive today, and I hope to keep fighting for change.” One thing that Luxemburg does not know is that there are people working against her. Karl Helfferich and Joseph Wirth were working together in the means of assassinating Luxemburg. Helfferich and Wirth worked together in order to come up with the idea to shoot the toxin out of the umbrella. Even though this attempt failed, people are in the process of still trying to assassinate Luxemburg. She needs to hire new body guards before it’s too late.