Word: hmun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buying life insurance and wallpaper. As a sophomore I'm already contemplating which fellowships I could get so as to stave off being a grown up for a few more years. Therefore imagine my shock when the participants at this year's annual Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) conference, only a few years younger than myself, readily treated me like a grown up. I tried to inform them of their gross mistake. I purposefully dressed more casually. I sat on the floor Indian-style. I even sang horrible Backstreet Boys songs to show I was hip. All this posturing...
...dude, how was the HMUN conference...
Kottas' election represents a swing back to HMUN's trend of electing a secretary general from what the organization terms its "substantive" side--the branch that deals with the actual committee meetings during the conference. The "non-substantive" side focuses on the administration and logistics of run- -ning the 2,000-delegate conference...
...last two elections, the organizationbroke with tradition, choosing secretary generalsfrom the "non-substantive" side. Last year'ssecretary general, Lee P. Koffler '98, hadpreviously served as an undersecretary general ofbusiness and as the HMUN comptroller...
...HMUN has done a lot in recent years tointegrate the various different departments of theconference," Garuda said. "I think that if thereis a rift between substantive and non-substantiveparts of the conference, it has closedsubstantially in recent years...