<p>First conference tomorrow...if anyone feels capable of answering these, I'd be tres grateful :)</p>
<p>1) Is it okay to submit a different position paper to the chair than the one you read/pass around?
2) When do people start working on resolutions?
3) How strict is the enforcement of parliamentary procedure?
4) How formal do you have to be in passing notes to other delegates?</p>
<p>1) Maybe. Bring it with you and ask your chair at the first session. But position papers don't matter much...</p>
<p>2) Hardcore people start working ASAP. You should already have ideas from when you wrote your position paper. Make sure you find out which countries agree with your policy by talking to other people between sessions (but don't be a dork about it) and during unmoderated caucuses.</p>
<p>3) Depends on how big the conference and committees are. It's generally pretty monotonous though. Speaker's List, moderated caucuses, unmoderated causes. Raise your placard to speak. Motion for changes in debate, point for details. That's about it. ;)</p>
<p>4) Not very formal at all. Nobody moderates the note passing or anything. Unless if it gets too loud or something, then the chair may ban it. DO NOT VOLUNTEER TO BE A PAGE!</p>
<p>Good luck. :)</p>
<p>are you kidding? u gotta relax, i advocated free drug trade for the bettering of my country's economy</p>
<p>1) It depends on the conference. Some require position papers and some don't. You turn in your position paper at the beginning of the conference (typed in proper format). I've never seen anyone pass around his/her position paper... Delegates who first start off the topic usually give speeches that are very similar to their position papers. </p>
<p>2) People start working on a working paper during the first unmoderated caucus. Once you finish your working paper, the page or whoever makes copies, and the committee discusses it and asks the sponsors questions during a moderated caucus. When a working paper passes, it becomes a resolution. </p>
<p>3) Strict. Model UN is very formal and formulaic. But then, there are always people who make dumb motions.</p>
<p>4) Technically, they have to pertain to the topic, but I've seen a lot of personal stuff, from asking someone's number to threatening to nuke a country. As long as you don't make it obvious, nobody else is going to read it. </p>
<p>Good luck! I have a conference next weekend. Exciting.</p>
<p>dumb motions... me?!??! haha</p>
<p>Wait, silentsailor, are you going to an overnight conference? Or is it a one-day thing?</p>
<p>Hehe one-day conferences suck. ;)</p>
<p>I mean dumb motions like, making a motion to change the speaker's time from 2 mins to 1 min and 45 sec, or to table the topic before all the working papers are discussed. </p>
<p>One of the freshman girls in my club wrote her position paper supporting human traffikking because she thought it'd be good for her country's economy (free labor).</p>
<p>DO NOT start working on a resolution right away. If you start before you've had some sort of debate on the issue (ie, at least a decent percentage of the committee giving policy overview speeches during formal debate), it seems like you came it with completely preconcieved ideas and did not consider those of the committee, which really annoys everyone else. The trick with Model UN is to make people think they have power while giving them none, so start your resolutions on the first unmoderated caucus (send notes during formal debate to those states you think have similar policy to you, have them meet you) and pretend to make it a collaboration of all your ideas. And if there's anything you need to know, feel free to ask. I just got back from a three day conference today, but, of course, I didn't get use any of this, since I was on ICJ which is nothing whatsoever like anything else.</p>
<p>Hehe, I meant develop your own ideas. Like start planning what you want to put into a resolution on your own, but, as tkb6 said, don't start drafting until you have other delegates behind you.</p>
<p>lol i've seen crazy people prepare resolutions at home. But i think instead of doign that prepare sth and move fast to earn the consent of other countries. Basically after u have control of the resolution u just talkt about it in details and stuff like that and things get done and u receive a gavel lol.</p>
<p>Whoa, that was fast. Thanks guys.</p>
<p>Theoneo - it's a three-day conference (technically two and a half -they couldn't get us out of classes for three days - but whatever, lol).</p>