CWRU Rocks Kent for 4th Straight Year

By JOHN D. GIORGIS

For the 4th straight year CWRU Model UN was a force at Kent-Ashtabula's Lake Erie Conference. This year, CWRU racked up 40 points, one better than last year's 39, and the best showing by CWRU ever under the 50-point system which was introduced last year.

Unfortunately, 40 points was not enough to take home their third straight Championship, as Ohio University pulled in a whopping 42 points. OU brought home a set of 10 awards, including a Conference-leading two superiors. CWRU did bring home a total of 12 awards, but under Conference rules, which only allow scoring of a certian 10 delegates, OU had more two team points than CWRU.

The judges this year were extremely stingy, with only seven superiors awarded across all seven committees. CWRU's scoring was led by their only Superior Award, taken home by head delegate and club President Jeneanne Shanahan. Shanahan turned in an inspirational performance as Morocco on the Arab League, playing on a broken ankle she had injured only Monday. Jeneanne also did what is normally the "kiss of death" in modelun, by arguing with her Chair for nearly an hour over interreting the rules. The gamble, paid off, however, and she was additionally rewarded by the Committee's gavel for her efforts. Said Shanahan after the Conference " I was really surprised. With everything that happened this week, breaking my ankle and all, I didn't have a whole lot of time to prepare. In fact, I still don't even know where Morocco is on a map!"

In other events, CWRU received a strong boost from their delegate to the Committe on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. All four delegates were attending their first college Conference, and all four one excellents. This incredible rookie showing was comprised of Bryan Inderhees as Japan, Aaron Teiser as Brazil, John Clark as the Russian Federation, and Brigitte Belmonte as Pakistan. Two other rookies with also had significant amounts of high school experience also brought home excellents for CWRU. Jason Liao brought home CWRU's only award from the 1914 summit representing Serbia, and Trevor Jenkins also won an excellent on the NATO Committee. Trevor's solid perfomance on NATO was accompanied by excellent awards from veterans John D. Giorgis and Mark Brighton as Turkey and Greece. Veterans rounded out a solid day of scoring for CWRU with excellent awards from Andrew Zupcsan as Egypt on SOCHUM, Johan Ericsson as USA on Security Council II, and James Chang as USA on Security Council III.

Finally, solid "god" performances were returned by Rachelle Celebreeze as Japan on Security Council I, Romy Lee as Morocco on SCOHUM, Ryan Yeh as USA on NATO, Mindy Miller as Germany on the 1914 Summit, Jim Moratti as Austria-Hungry on the 1914 Summit, and by Adam Vainder as Tunisia on the Arab League. Vainder, who was at his first Conference, said "I was really happy to turn a nation like Tunisia into a real power on the Arab League.

Said veteran member John Giorgis,on the weekend's effort "I was particularly impressed by how well all of our new members managed to uphold CWRU's tradition of strong, professional performances at this Conference. Second Place is nothing to be ashamed of, and I am very excited that this team will still be able to expect big things here well into the future."

The Third Place Award was taken by Aquinas College of Michigan with 35 points. A tie occurred for fourth place between KSUAC and Youngstown State each with 31 points. The small school award was taken by John Carroll University.

This is the last Conference of the semester for the CWRU team who now returns home to prepare for their very own Cleveland National Conference. Next semester, they have a packed schedule with representatives scheduled to attend McGill, Dayton, and U Chicago, as well as the granddaddy of them all: Harvard. In other news, it was announced this weekend that CWRU has been assigned Kazakhstan for Harvard this year.

Said Giorgis, "I think this Conference gives us a lot to build on for the coming year. I think this team has shown that it has the talent to make big things happen at all of our Conferences next semester. I really hope we can go out there and really make some noise. I am very excited."