THE DELEGATE 2022

EDITOR’S NOTE:

Hello and welcome to Royal Russell School 40th MUN conference I would like to start by introducing myself. I am Sam and I have been to a couple MUN conferences, most other times taking part as a delegate but for this weekend I am Head of the Press Team. We have been working hard with our team here and alongside the Colegio Ayalde Press Team from Spain!

This year we have taken pride in our concerns for sustainability where we have switched to online editions of ‘The Delegate’ with paper copies available in the staff room for advisors. Also, resolutions and other things are not being printed.

This first issue of The Delegate centres around the history of the conference at this school; as this year is the 40th anniversary, running from 1981 (minus the conference we missed in 2020 due to the covid pandemic). We will also feature words of wisdom from our late Patron: Queen Elizabeth II and with a stunning portrait by Dora Liu accompanying it.

We will also be covering the game show that we saw last night, and all the best bits that we watched. There also will be pictures documenting the arrivals that took place this morning. I hope you enjoy this first issue, and all the others to come over the next few days. Remember to enjoy yourselves and don’t work too hard!

CONTRIBUTIONS:

Heads of Press

Sam Alfred Ella Burrows

Designer

Sam Alfred Editors

Sam Alfred

Jaishan Jethwa

Photographer

Jaishan Jethwa

Sara Zumaran from Colegio Ayalde, Spain

Journalist

Tahnee Dione

Contributions

Henry Steele President of Security Council

Mr M Tanner

Mr G Moseley

Inés Chapa from Colegio Ayalde, Spain

Kwasaki Yui and Saito Koki from Hitachi First High School, Japan Davit Togoevi, Lizi Chkheidze, Ivane Kuljanishvili, Lizi Arkania, Sandro Sartania, Keso Petriashvili from V.Komarov School in Tbilisi, Georgia

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Dora Liu

Inés Chapa from Colegio Ayalde, Spain

A brief history of (RRSMUN) time

Back in deep time, long before most of you were born, the inspirational RRS history teacher and Deputy Head Roy Bushin happened upon The Hague International United Nations just before coming to Royal Russell. Roy recalls…

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At my first Hague conference in January 1979, the GA was chaired by a diminutive American girl who controlled the c800 delegates in the Congresgebuow in a way few would ever emulate in any subsequent conference I attended I was hooked by the opportunities MUN could offer to all students and the rest is history! “

The idea of holding a conference at Royal Russell soon evolved with the enthusiastic support of Headmaster Ronald Balaam. This was to be the very first school MUN in the UK. At the time Ron was facing the challenge of a Chair of Governors that wanted a puppet Headmaster. His experiences were so profound he wrote a book about the events…From Court Martial to Peerage In his upbeat chapter about the MUN he says…

“ I think Roy was taken aback by the alacrity with which I gave my wholehearted support to the project but even at that early stage I could anticipate the benefits for so many of our pupils knowledge of world affairs, confidence in standing up and speaking in front of others and the opportunity to rub shoulders with pupils from all over the world”

Fellow historian and human dynamo John Piggin was immediately in the team and when Roy eventually moved on to a headship, he took up the reins. Under his leadership the conference further grew and prospered. He has, to date, been our longest serving Director and you will hear him speak at the Opening Ceremony today, Simon Keable-Elliot next received the baton following a long apprenticeship. As conferences were popping up in many new places the task of making sure the RRSMUN remained one of the best run conferences was crucial.

"I wanted to make sure our students were as experienced as possible so introduced MiniMUN at school for students in Years 6 to 8," said Simon. "This meant that by the time students came to run the conference some had seven years experience and had attended over 20 conferences."

Today our newest Director Sandrine Calvet had first to contend with a world that had gone viral. But we have emerged even stronger… and full of antibodies! You will of course see Sandrine throughout our conference. This year we celebrate our 40th Conference (one year is missing!). Please raise a glass to all those who have put us where we are today!

World Events during RRIMUN 40

The 1980s saw the emergence of the New Right dominated by the Reagan Thatcher years.

1980

Iran Iraq War over national boundaries protracted conflict which disrupted global oil flows from 1984; ended in 1988 under UN Security Council Resolution 598.

1981

Militaryleadersin Polandintroduce martial law to restrict the growing impact oftheSolidaritytradeunion.

The Aids virus is identified.

1982

Argentina invades the British Falkland Islands and South Georgia in April; UK forces retook the islands by June; NATO did not get involved because Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty specifies that collective self defence is applicable only to attacks on member state territories north of the Tropic of Cancer.

Israel invades Lebanon to quell PLO forces; Reagan brokers a deal which sees PLO leadership move to Tunisia and a US led Multinational Force (US, UK, France, Italy) moves in to keep the peace and train the Lebanese Army.

1983

South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Seoul apparently strays into Soviet airspace and is shot down by a Soviet SU 15 fighter after it had tracked the airliner for two hours; all 269 aboard are killed. (Aug. 30).

Terrorist explosion kills 237 US Marines in Beirut (Oct. 23).

US invades Grenada (Oct. 25).

1984

The UK and China agree Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997

Widespread Faminein Ethiopiaafterpolitical conflict; BandAid concertorganisedby Bob Geldof to raise money to relieve the famine.

A Union Carbide Pesticide plant in Bhopal India leaks the lethal toxic gases killing more than 3,500.

1985

Operation Moses a secret operation by Israel to airlift thousands of Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of Sudan

The United Kingdom and Spain agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain. Live Aid pop concerts in Philadelphia and London raise over 50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.

1986

Soviet Nuclear reactor at Chernobyl explodes on April 26th causing release of radioactive material across much of Europe.

Iran Contra Affair President Ronald Reagan's administration sold arms to Iran.

1987

United States President Ronald Reagan delivered his famous speech at the Berlin Wall in West Berlin.

Work on the Channel Tunnel begins

1988

Soviet Red Army withdraws from Afghanistan. Iraq carries out Poison Gas Attack on Kurds.

Suspected Libyan terrorist bomb explodes on Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland.

1989

Free Elections in Poland bring Solidarity to power.

200,000 protesters in Prague, Czechoslovakia call for the resignation of the country's communist government in the "Velvet Revolution".

After 30 years the Cold War between East and West ends following the Malta conference and the Berlin Wall comes down.

In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground China Tiananmen Square protests.

REMEMBERING QUEEN ELIZABETH II

WISE WORDS FROM OUR LATE PATRON

“While we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.”

"It’s worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

“Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves from our recklessness or our greed.”

“Grief is the price we pay for love”

On the 8th of September the Queen passed away at Balmoral at the age of 96. The world lost an inspirational leader and a wise woman who had ruled through good times and bad, and we as a school lost our much-loved patron. The Queen is the only monarch the majority of us have ever known and had been at the centre of British life for more than 70 years. Whilst many have conflicted feelings surrounding the monarchy, I’m sure we can all agree that there is a huge sense of loss, and that we have all lost someone who can never be replaced and that we will never see the likes of again. Queen Elizabeth was never born to rule, yet the abdication of her uncle King Edward the VII in 1936 changed the course of history forever. At the start of her reign, she was the sole woman, surrounded by exclusively male politicians and leaders and was such an excellent example of the capabilities of women, and proving that they had just as much of a right to be in positions of such power as men. During her reign she worked with 15 Prime Ministers, 3 of which were women, and this number captures the longevity of her reign and how through so much change the Queen was our one constant. Queen Elizabeth was clearly a champion of equality she broke tradition by keeping her surname upon marrying Prince Philip and ensured that her daughter Anne had an equal and full education to her sons. Most notably the Succession to the Crown Act in 2013 which was fully supported by the Queen ensured that there will be many more female monarchs to come in the future. The Queen herself may no longer be with us, but her legacy and example set over so many years will last forever, and our gratitude towards her will never be forgotten.

School’s Arrival

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Games Night

For the first night of MUN, Royal Russell students were blessed with a ‘Friday Night Game Show’ put on by our own Media team. Videos were shown of shows parodying Friends and Line of Duty, as well as Brooklyn Nine Nine, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and a Keeping up with the Kardashians skits. Our wonderful Hosts Urush Hemanth and Miles King graced the stage with their charm. The teachers’ team consisted of Miss Calvet, our director, Mr Hutchinson, Miss Tovey and our guest Mr Porter. On the other side, they were faced by a group of students consisting of Patson Ngoma, Oliver Tchum, Iris Nuredini and Tahnee Dione. Teachers struggled with answering the questions on Line of Duty, likewise the students struggled with Friends. Unfortunately, teachers lost by 3-4. In the second half, the audience were encouraged to play Kahoot doing a quiz based on videos of a shouting competition and others, which was then followed by a dancing competition with Makaziwe Ansan and Abdulrazaq Gwadabe gracing the dance floor who later lost to Poppy Clements, and then proceeded to say that ‘the game is rigged’ . The night was a wonderful way to kick off the conference and we are looking forward to more laughs with all of you in the coming days.

TONIGHT’S DISCO THEME

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