WorldMUN 2008

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Rules now available at http://www.worldmun.org/2008/wmun08rules.pdf
Schedule now available at http://www.worldmun.org/2008/content/conference/wmun08schedule.pdf

Dear Delegates, Faculty Advisers, Alumni and Friends,

It is with great honor and pleasure that I invite you to the 17th session of Harvard World Model United Nations (WorldMUN), which will be held in the beautiful and historic city of Puebla, Mexico from March 24-28, 2008. We have updated our website, and I encourage you all to register for our conference.

This summer, the Harvard and Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) teams have been industriously making conference plans. Preparations include booking hotels, mapping social events, and doing everything within our power to create the best WorldMUN experience yet. Moreover, we want WorldMUN to be accessible for delegates from all areas of the world and are endeavoring to ensure the lowest costs possible for our participants.

For those of you new to our conference, please read the documents under our ‘Preparation’ tab to help you better understand WorldMUN. We will continue to update the site with documents and information that should help newcomers better grasp all aspects of WorldMUN. If you feel that the material contained within the “Preparations” tab is incomplete, please let us know so we can update that information for the benefit of all delegates.

Please note some of the changes we have made to registration this year. After discussions at last year’s conference, we will be lowering our maximum delegation size to 18 delegates. We will also maintain our policy of limiting delegations to only one per school. Given the continual growth of WorldMUN, we want to ensure that the conference maintains the diversity we have worked so hard to achieve over the past 16 years.

Moreover, upon registering, we will not only ask you to provide the delegation fee but also 25% of each, individual delegate fee. We are charging this fee to limit the number of early registrant drops, thus allowing us to be more responsive to allowing other delegates to attend. Also, this policy will help us post country assignments earlier, allowing all our delegates more time to prepare for the conference.

The BUAP team has been working day and night to provide a crowning experience in Puebla. After personally viewing all of the social events venues, I can confidently state that this year’s social events for the delegates will be first-rate. Their website is currently linked to ours, and they will be constantly updating the already extensive amount of information regarding the city of Puebla, hotel bookings, and social tickets as well as allow you to ask any questions you may have about the city itself.

Delegation registration will conclude on December 15th. If, however, at some point before this date, we become close to meeting our capacity of 1850 delegates, we will send a follow-up email alerting all delegates of this possibility and encourage you all to register at that time.

If you ever have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We are looking forward to having an exceptional week in Puebla and are always open to new suggestions and advice. Thank you for your interest in WorldMUN, and we look forward to seeing you in Puebla!

Sincerely,
Joseph Kerns
Secretary-General
WorldMUN ‘08