Eleven Dublin students were in Hanover, NH, this past weekend to participate in DARTMUN XVII, joining hundreds of High School students from around New England for Dartmouth’s annual Model United Nations conference. 

Over the weekend, these students spent over fourteen hours engaged in committee work, serving as delegates from countries like Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, among others. As delegates, they collaborated with peers from other schools to develop and propose resolutions to global policy issues ranging from the regulation of crypto-currencies (ECOFIN Committee) to nuclear waste disposal. Dublin students were animating the proceedings all along the way!

Associate Head of School for Academics Sarah Doenmez wrote with and highlights from the weekend: 

Chris H. ‘26 played the character of Alfred Gaslee, an English general in the Boxer Rebellion in the Historical Crisis Committee.

Juliana a. ‘26  and Maia C. ‘27 were a double delegation representing Cuba in the SPECPOL or Special Political Committee of the General Assembly. Their topics were protecting civilians from radioactivity (mostly from weapons and nuclear energy production and waste but also excess medical imaging and radon) and protecting journalists (on which their stance was "Burn the Journalists!"). Oliver R. ‘27 was representing the UAE on that committee, and Emelia D. ‘27 and Aliaria C. ‘26 represented Kazakhstan. They were leaders in their group and wrote a significant portion of the resolution which was voted on and approved by the committee (the goal of every committee is to pass a resolution so this is huge!)

Kodai G. ‘25 and Ellie K. ‘28 were a double delegation (Philippines) on the ECOFIN (ECONOMICS AND FINANCE) Committee and so were Drew D. ‘27 and Walker B. ‘26 (Mexico) debating regulating crypto-currency. Ellie also was instrumental in writing the resolution that passed in their committee.

Other students were Quinn H. ‘25, our fearless and charismatic Model UN Club leader, on the Future Crisis Committee debating Genetic Engineering of Humans, who deserves special recognition for his willingness to jump into any role we needed, and changed his role 3 times leading up to the conference, and Nick B. ‘25 representing a leader of the Boxers in the Boxer Rebellion in the Historical Crisis Committee. NIck earned an Honorable Mention award for creating a plot line for the committee centering on creating a coup, overthrowing the Qing Dynasty, making himself dictator, cultivating a spy in the European faction (Chris H.), and getting his second in command assassinated by the Back Room. He himself was then also assassinated and spent the rest of the conference dead.