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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...
Kottas said he hoped to extend HMUN's current financial aid program to sponsor an entire school delegation from "a financially disadvantaged neighborhood" in the local area...
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...