To the Editor: 
     
    

    
     To most of us the 
     
     United Nations is an 
     
     institution surrounded 
     
     by mystery. We know not- 
     
     hing about it, nor do we 
     
     care to learn. The United 
     
     Nations is such a sophis- 
     
     ticated thing located in 
     
     such a large internation— 
     
     al center (New York) that 
     
     we cannot came to terms 
     
     with it. . 
     
    

    
     Last April, seventeen 
     
     U.P.E.I. students were af 
     
     forded an opportunity to 
     
     visit the United Nations 
     
     and to participate in a 
     
     model United Nations Con- 
     
     ference. Each student who 
     
     went agreed it was a pro— 
     
     foundly enriching exper- 
     
     ience, and many claimed 
     
     it was the most rewarding 
     
     and enjoyable part of 
     
    
   
   
    
     leagues from some of the 
     
     world's better universities 
     
     such as Harvard, Duke and 
     
     Brown. Model United Nations 
     
    
   
   
    
     officials oOntinually eval— /' 
     
    
   
   
    
     uated each student's know— 
     
     ledge of , and ability to 
     
     handle U.N. procedure and 
     
     their ability to assume 
     
    
   
   
    
     their assigned county's nat— [:4 
     
     ionality. U.N. officials as f (-1 
     
     well as representatives from  ‘. ‘ 
     
     America's major universities-N 
     
    
   
   
    
     were impressed with U.P.E.I.r 
     
     performance. The invitation ' 
     
     ti participate in the model , 
     
     U.N. in N6” York again this. 
     
     year, as well as several ' 
     
     invitations to participate 
     
     in model U.N. conferences . 
     
     at Harvard and other lead—g 
     
     ing American universities . 
     
    
   
   
    
     eir univerSity experience Suflent felt he or she had 
     
    
   
   
    
     It all began when U.P. 
     
     E.I. recieved an invitat- 
     
     ion to participate in a 
     
     annual NMUN conference. 
     
     An eager and very dedic- 
     
     ated professor, Gary Web- 
     
    
   
   
    
     really accomplished some- 
     
     thing great. They had taken 
     
     on the U.N. putting aside 
     
     Canadian biases and pred— 
     
    
   
   
    
     judices, as they had assumed 
     
    
   
   
    
     the attitudes of African 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ster' gathered recrults and Diplomats. The result was a 
     
    
   
   
    
     began mobilizing for the 
     
    
   
   
    
     remarkable growth of pers— 
     
    
   
   
    
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     task ahead. A special course 
     
     was arranged in which the H ‘ 
     
     group studied the United 
     
    
   
   
    
     pective on current inter— 
     
     national affairs. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The N.M.U.N. ice has been 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nations and the simulation. 
     
     They looked at what the U.N. brOken f9]? U'PfE'I' Tms 
     
     is, why it was formed, and to the pioneering of last 
     
    
   
   
    
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     After this I. each student simulation is in operation, 
     
     tackled a committee assign- and an international rePUta’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     up to U.P.E.I.'s future stu- 
     
    
   
   
    
     io or Zimbawe delegation. . . 
     
    

    
     A 5211(3), paper in which dents, faculty and adminis- 
     
    

    
     each student stated the pro— tratlon to See that Other 
     
     students are afforded furthe 
     
    
   
   
    
     blems and concerns facing S Ch major 1 ing 
     
     his or her mm coun 's u ear“ ‘ exper- 
     
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     del ation on the committee _ 
     
    

    
     hadego be sent to the Model, continues to be represented 
     
    

    
     United Nations Secretariat. abroad! 1“ the capltoinofd 
     
    

    
     This was successful indeed. 'the world- U°P'E‘I' S u 
     
    

    
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     the United Nations, after . bUt Sho‘lld 30 on to eYen 
     
     greater achievements in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     havin examined the li . . 
     
     paperg, said that  realm of international dip— 
     
     lomacy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ups could have been issued 
     
     as an official document 
     
     from their office. 
     
    

    
     While alot of preparation 
     
     went into the simulation, it 
     
     was during the week in New 
     
     York that the delegates 
     
     really learned what the U.N. 
     
     was and how it worke. They 
     
     learned how to draft and pre 
     
     pare resolutions, how to 
     
     lobby, how to bargain and 
     
     negotiate and how to speak 
     
     with ease in front of col- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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