Bay College Model United Nations:

2011 Russian Federation Delegation ARROWHEAD MODEL UN CONFERENCE (AMUNC)

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI

April 7 - April 10, 2011

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BAY COLLEGE DELEGATION REPRESENTING RUSSIAN FEDERATION

SECURITY COUNCILHonorable Delegate Cas Gilbert

Honorable Delegate Cory Cronkright

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCILHonorable Delegate Arie Beaudoin

POLITICAL AND SECURITY COMMITTEEHonorable Delegate Sarah Unger

Honorable Delegate Nicole Johnson

SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND HUMANITARIAN COMMITTEEHonorable Delegate Heather Deneau

Honorable Delegate Madeline Laviolette

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEEHonorable Delegate Eric Chaillier

Honorable Delegate Sarah Hughes

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEEHonorable Delegate Olivia Evans

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2011 Russian Federation

delegation

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Preparing for conference

Economic & Financial CommitteeEric Chaillier and Sarah Hughes

Security CouncilCory Cronkright and Cas Gilbert

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Arie, what are you drinking? And where

did you get the cup and saucer?

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Club secretary Sarah Unger

always hard at work!

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Honorary club member,

or club mascot? Deb Hopp! ☺

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Olivia with the Honors Program

mascot, “Honor”

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Packing the vans!

Arie already took 1,000 photos before we even left the parking lot!

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Is everyone ready yet?

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Smile for Arie and his camera!

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Are you guys seriously bringing

all that stuff?

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Donut stop, and photo op!

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Mrs. C: I gotta have a clean car!

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Arriving at LSSU,

Sault Ste. Marie, MI

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A view to Canada

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Opening Ceremonies

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Dr. Gary Johnson, LSSU,

commences Opening Ceremonies

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Heather is getting ready to deliver

our Opening Policy Statement!

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Heather rocks her speech!

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Greeting Dr. Conteh and Dr. Battah

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Uh, nice group photo, except for

the major podium obstacle! ☺

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Russian divas!

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Russian Czar, “Cory the Conqueror”

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Our Finance Minister, Mr. Chaillier

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“I shall save the world today…”

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Heading into committee session

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Political and Security Committee:

Sarah Unger and Nicole Johnson

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Very dedicated effort to fix

the placard—

it said RUSSIA FEDERATION instead

of RUSSIAN FEDERATION!

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Who is that other guy? ☺

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Environmental Committee:

Olivia Evans

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Olivia in caucus meetings

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Human Rights Council:

Arie Beaudoin

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That’s Russian for “you betcha”

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Social, Cultural and Humanitarian

Committee: Heather Deneau and

Maddie Laviolette

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Maddie at work in caucus

and meeting new friends!

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Social, Cultural, Humanitarian

Committee at work

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So you want to do WHAT?

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Economic & Finance Committee:

Eric Chaillier

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Russians are very serious.

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Security Council:

Cas Gilbert and Cory Cronkright

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Diplomacy in action!

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“Don’t even bother, because we

will just veto it.”

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The Security Council

had a cool view

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More committee sessions

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Dr. Curt Reithel, UW-La Crosse

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Strike a pose!

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Honors Scholars

and Model United Nations delegates!

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Uh, is that Santa?

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Lunchtime!

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Closing Ceremonies

and Awards Banquet

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Waiting for program to start….

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After waiting a long time…

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This is how I really feel…

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Who let Arie have my camera?

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Smile!

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Sault tribe of Chippewa Indians

Aabizii Drum

group and

Bahweting

Singers

performed at

the Awards

Banquet

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Keynote Speaker:

President Mary Robinson

First female President of Ireland

Former UN High

Commissioner for Human Rights

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President Mary Robinson

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And third place for Best Opening

Policy Statement is….Russia!

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Award winners!

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Arie Beaudoin:

Nominated for

Best Delegate in the

Human Rights

Council (HRC)

Heather Deneau:

Nominated for

Best Opening Policy

Statement speech

Congratulations!

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FAMOUS PHRASES 1� When in doubt, "Blame the Chechen Rebels!”

� “Somebody write that down!”

� “Olivia’s resolution is number 14.......Are you kidding me?“

� "These guys don't deserve my doughnuts.“

� "Donate--save the whales!““

� “I burn cookies all the time,” said Sarah Hughes. “Well, every oven is different,” replied Eric.

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Boris and Natasha

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FAMOUS PHRASES 2

� “Facebook is evil. Computers are basically Satan. Satan is on my desk!”

� “He’s not just bald, he’s “expletive” bald.”

� “The Russian Federation votes no.”

� “The Russian Federation abstains.”

� “RUSSIA. VODKA.”

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Bobby and JFK

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FAMOUS PHRASES 3� “The Russian Federation would like to make a motion that

delegates who do not know what UNAIDS stands for should not be allowed to serve on a Model UN team.”

� How do you spell, “blahuggyhuhhhwwuuhhhssfff”?

� Heather’s new political ideology: “motherism”

� “Will the delegate from the Russian Federation yield to a question?” “No.”

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Awww…sleepy time...

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Remember when:� Arie was talking in his really bad Russian accent

� Honduras taught Maddie and Nicole how to salsa dance

� Eric kept recruiting other countries to the KGB

� When Arie said at dinner, “Hey there’s those guys who had I had the really weird hot tub experience with,” and Mrs. C responded, “These are things you should never say out loud.”

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I must practice my Russian accent

in my head…..

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Remember when:� Sarah Unger randomly yelled, “Boats!”

� On your left you will see a marvelous grouping of bird-killing clean energy windmills, and on your right you can see a steel mill burning off its toxic waste…. Ahhhh, progress.

� Every other school thought Cory was from Canada and they kept making him talk.

� When Heather hid Arie’s ipad under Sarah’s skirt.

� We all walked super slowly so we could follow Mary Robinson.

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No way! Mrs. C gets an awesome

Jacuzzi in her room!

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FAMOUS PHRASES 4� “Glenn Beck is a good speaker… yeah, so was Hitler!“

� That's because he cuts my nuts off every time I open my mouth."-Heather

� "You don't have nuts to cut off."-Arie

� “I really want to veto something.”

� “Sarah Unger’s club meeting notes are very interesting.”

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This is the only photo the American CIA

has been able to capture of these two

secret agents in 10 years…

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Remember:� Arie’s pinky toe blister

� How Eric’s mobster suit was classic and so Russia

� When Sarah Unger flung her fork full of food at Mrs. C during the important banquet dinner

� When Heather forgot to tell Sarah H. that Sarah U. decided to come and she called to talk to Sarah while she was in committee

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Puppet and puppet master?

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Remember when:� Olivia was sooooo loud? Me either.

� DPRK and ROK co-sponsored a resolution; obviously it was a pretend UN

� USA got applause for not being there

� Mrs. C and Sarah U. chased some poor kid who looked like Bruno Mars

� Arie could not deal with frozen milk

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OMG! It’s Bruno Mars!

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Remember:� How inspirational Mary Robinson’s speech was

� How tired everyone was

� When Heather asked Cas if she had a “ bat in the cave”

� Olivia helping Arie extinguish his lighter with her notebooks

� Pizza with pepperoni and bacon

� Arie rocked in his committee and Heather rocked her speech

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The Russians are very tired and

they wanna go home now.

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The Kremlin at night

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2011 Conference photos from LSSU� A great set of photos taken over the entire event is

available at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61719702@N05/collections/72157626416184715/

All images in this presentation were obtained from personal photos or Google images for educational purposes only7.25.11mvc

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