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Model U.N. Offers Opportunity To Consider World Problems
By Linda Ellis
For the fifth time KU students will w rangle with the problems of the world and try to resolve a few of them.
Wednesday, April 29, 1964 University Daily Kansan
Since its introduction in 1960, the Model United Nations has been the place where students can see a reasonable facsimile of the world body in action.
At the first meeting of the Model UN in the spring of 1960, students representing about 70 countries voted on resolutions concerning the admission of Red China to the UN, the banning of nuclear testing and Algerian independence.
The 1964 session will be Friday and Saturday.
In the initial activity over the new function, students wrote papers about the functioning of the United Nations and interest in the whole system was boosted.
OF THE THREE resolutions discussed during that session all were passed during the individual voting on the second day of the assembly. The resolution on Red China was defeated during the nation voting.
At the first Model UN, former President Harry S. Truman gave the opening address to a convocation in Hoch Auditorium.
At the second meeting of the Model UN in 1961, the Red China issue was dropped and Cuba and the Congo were the major questions of the day. The "UN" had grown to 82 nations and there were four resolutions passed in place of the former three.
AT THE 1963 meeting, the focus had again gone back to disarmament, allowing Red China to participate in programs of specialized UN agencies and placing foreign aid grants on an international basis. At this last meeting, Frederick R. Boland, president of the United Nations Security Council, delivered the keynote address.
With an enlarged program, the Model UN will open May 1 and will consider at least eight resolutions.
The resolution on the admittance of the Peoples Republic of China is again on the agenda. There is also one concerning disarmament. Some of the new problems to be discussed deal with the Arab-Israel crisis and the Oder-Neisse boundary of Poland.
As in past meetings of the Model UN, delegates from many foreign countries will discuss and argue over some old and some relatively new problems to the world community.
ANOTHER RESOLUTION condemns apartheid policies in South Africa as "incompatible with membership in the United Nations." It also says the UN and other agencies should deny economic and technical assistance to South Africa.
The Model UN has followed the mechanical ideas of the United Nations and has tried to vote the way the representative countries would. On the second day of discussions, the student delegates will get a chance to express their personal views. In the past, student voting has been opposite bloc voting.
The 1964 Model UN session has, as yet, no keynote speaker. It does have before it a number of controversial topics that will give students an opportunity to see how various countries think and act in regard to the United Nations.
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