Delegates, advisors, and friends of CMUNCE,

X is coming. Are you ready?

It is my absolute pleasure and honor to officially welcome you to CMUNCE 2011, the 10th annual CMUNCE to be hereafter referred to as CMUNCE X. As many of you may have witnessed, CMUNCE has come a long way in ten years. The conference has expanded in scope, making committees more innovative and unique year after year—rejecting the stereotypical Model UN mold. The conference has expanded geographically, bringing in more schools from around the US and even abroad. And most visibly, the conference has expanded in attendance, bringing in over 500 truly brilliant high school students to our fast-paced crisis committees.

As we have worked to expand the conference, we have also simultaneously focused on maintaining the high quality of debate that has made CMUNCE renowned in conference circuits. We’ve tried to make the conference not only more didactic but also simultaneously more enjoyable for delegates, adding in social programming such as an ice cream social and a delegate dance. We’ve made the conference-planning process easier for advisors, securing a hotel deal with the beautiful Marriot Marquis in Times Square. Over the past ten years, I can proudly say that we have thoroughly pursued the discourse of improvement.

You’ll find some of the most innovative CMUNCE topics ever at this year’s conference with committees ranging from Peter Pan and 1984 to a historical simulation of the CIA-orchestrated 1953 coup in Iran. Come researched and fully energized to CMUNCE X; our crisis staff has worked up elaborate day and midnight crises to take you by storm every minute of the conference.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact me at any time with questions or concerns. I look forward to seeing you in January!

All the best,
Rhonda Shafei
Secretary-General, CMUNCE X