OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE BALTIC MODEL UNITED NATIONSIssue 3/2013 • Saturday, May 25th, 2013 • www.facebook.com/TheBalticHerald • www.twitter.com/BALMUN

THE UNITED NATIONS VISIT THEIR MODEL IN ROSTOCK

Reports about the Opening Ceremony in the General Assembly ...............................p. 3

THE BALTIC MODEL UNITED NATIONS IN SIx wORDSWe asked some participants to describe our conference ..............................p. 3

TRUE OR fALSE? SEE THE RESULTS Of OUR fACEBOOK VOTEHas he or not? We asked Kevin how he became the Editor-in-chief .............p. 8

GRILLINGTHE RAPPORTEUR

THE PRIVATE PARTy AT THE TOwN HALL

1st Day in SessionReports from the Opening Ceremony and the first day in session in BALMUN‘s committees..............p. 3/4/5

Yesterday the Herald released a photo of Mr. Johannes Kuhlmey, rapporteur of the Dis-armament Committee, with a young beauty

from the press team. The rapport of the rapporteur, exclusive in this issue of The Baltic Herald ..............p. 8

Not so kuhl: Mr Kuhlmey yesterday in Herald‘s office

Teacher‘s reception in the town hall of the City of Rostock. Herald prints exclusive photos......................................p. 7

Editor-in-chiefKevin Dusch, Deputy Editor-in-chiefCaroline LuschLayoutMatthias Bannert, Francine SelmsStaffAnna Kondratenko, Jenia Barnert, Koray Kocyigit, Helke Redersborg, Maria Rosenberger, Vanessa Seyfert

MUNSTER‘S CORNER

Day Two

Well, day two starts somehow … uneventfully for the crazy press aunt. I come into the press room, much too

early, of course, but it’s already occupied by a 9th grade. Hurray. Nevertheless I can manage to get hold of an empty computer und start with my own researches about the different committees, so I won’t blame myself too hard in the interviews I will (hopefully) do later on. I decide to start with the Disarmament Commit-tee, and I chew it trough - page by page. Half an hour later. I’m very well informed about war technology and definitions by now, and full of motivation I switch to the site of the Environ-mental Committee. But that’s too much text and so I give up after three minutes. Maybe I’ll do it later. Perhaps. Now, in order to find a new task, I’m wandering like a ghost trough the corridors and try to act as I’d be important. Anyway, there’s nobody who could see my bril-liant performance because they’re all sitting in lesson or in the opening ceremony, and so I’m plundering the coffee bar. I’m such a producti-ve person, it’s almost unbelievable. Back in the press room, I finally get a senseful task to do: Take part in the committee speeches of the DC and the SC and report and write what everyone is doing. Thank god I prepared myself a bit. So, let‘s attack some people‘s nerves!

Teacher

BALMUNIN wORDSwe asked some participants

to describe the conference

Delegate

friendly, family, fun, organized, fantastic, small

English, debating, fun, problems, solutions, people

Staff Delegate

funny, interesting, cool, food, working, preasure

debating, collabrorating, solving sudokus, party

Secretary General Guest speaker

family, friends, interesting, blue, international, nervtracking

sucessful, participating, interesting, people, nice weather

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The GrandOpening

By VANESSA SEYFERT

The second day of BALMUN begun with the welcoming greets and speeches of the guest speakers. There were Thomas Döring, princi-pal of the ISG, Mrs. Dr. Bacher, re-presentative of the town Rostock, Simon Riesche, Information Officer UNRIC, Mr. Dr. Jacobs from the Kon-rad-Adenauer-Fondation.Because of any delays of the delegates

the speeches begun twenty minutes later than planned in the assembly hall of the ISG. Each speech contents completely different themes, thought-provoking impulses and emotions.Thomas Döring opened the Opening

Ceremony with a hearty welcoming of the delegates from seventeen schools in eleven countries, amongst others France, Poland and Luxembourg. He defined the word “freedom” (“Freedom is when nothing is left to do.”) and confirmed is meaning with questions, examples and wild gestures.Dr. Bacher, former student of the ISG,

refer her speech to Rostock, how mo-dern this town is and that it should be

like this all over the world. She hopes that the generation of the delegates (by the way our generation) achieves approaches and changes and applies oneself active for the arrangement of the future world, that things like mul-ticultural life and family supplies could refine.Simon Riesche had the meaning – how

the delegates sat there in the assembly hall – the UN should model the model. During he talked about human

rights, hunger, war and water cri-sis and he showed the emotional example of the fifteen years old, Pakistani freedom fighter Mala-la Yousafzai, which fights for the right of education for girls, a pre-sentation with many facts and pic-tures was shown.Dr. Jacobs from the Konrad-Adenauer-

Fondation showed different opportuni-ties to create freedom and that freedom exist only in three areas – unity, organi-sation and publicity – but also that the create of freedom all around the world could not be reached at the time. “Visions are visions” were his last

words.

Mr. Breitkopf was part of the teachers, who helped organizing the conference

Thomas Döhring, the principal of the Inner-städtisches Gymnasium, holds a speach at the Opening Ceremony

Photos: KORAY KOCYIGIT

+++ COMMITTEE REPORTS +++ COMM

By CAROLINE LUSCH

The Human Rights committee is dealing with problems concerning human rights, the Political committee has the politicians of tomorrow, the Environmental committee will be deba-ting all about building up a sustainable environment that will be lasting for our future generations and so on… But you probably asked yourself

what’s up with the Special Confe-rence. I mean, this committee sure IS special but more than that. After singing for our birthday boy, the

now legal-aged-delegation of Italy, and funny stories and questions, the com-mittee finally broke its ice and build up a familiar and motivated atmosphere to work on the issues of providing mea-sures against youth unemployment as a consequence of the global crisis and raising the awareness for the protection of children and adolescents and setting guidelines for the prohibition of child labor and child prostitution.

After having a typical German lunch with Bratwurst and Sauerkraut, the 20 delegates from all different countries split up into four groups and were in lobbying process. Now and then, visi-tors from Alumnies, Press and teachers check on the process, delegates and chairs in room 2.06. Today, the SpC is looking forward to welcome the Youth Delegates for Germany, Elise and Flo-rian, and their inspiring speech about youth unemployment. Whatever com-mittee you are part of, we all wish you great motivation, a lot of fun and suc-cessful discussions. We are the generati-on that can set frameworks for freedom for our future generations and become powerful representatives of a generati-on struggling with the challenges of our globalized world. As sad as it is, the BALMUN dance

is already tonight, what means that tomorrow is already the clo-sing ceremony. Let us all enjoy our last full day and we see each other tonight!

Special Conference

Enviromental CommitteeBy JENIA BARNERT

This year, the delegates have to encourage measures against the deforestation of the tropical rain-forest with special regard to da-maged peatland areas and have to set global guidelines for adequate prices, storage and a better distri-bution of food. Johanna Diederichs and Sophie Lugani

are the two enchanting chairs who will guide the delegates throughout the de-bates and the lobbying process. For get-ting to know each other, they came up with a little ice breaker. The Delegates were asked to share the secret of what animal they would like to be. The majority wished to be a bird.

Later on the chairs invited the de-legates to start lobbying by getting

in contact among each other and exchange different resolutions. After the recreational lunch the EC

had the pleasure to welcome their guest speaker Thomas Baldauf from the Thünen-Institute for World Forestry. He showed that it is not only a problem in tropical climate zones like the Amazon forest or Africa, but has its history long time ago in Middle Europe. Further, Mr. Baldauf presented institutions who try to monitor the Layers going ahead with the deforestation and talked about possibilities to solve the problem. “We need guidelines immediately”, was one of his urgent receivables. Among other things, he asked the delegates to try to guess how often the total area of Ros-tock is deforested during the 4 days of BALMUN worldwide… It’s nearly 7.8 times!

(He looks a bit like one of the One Direction guys, doesn‘t he?)

Photos: KORAY KOCYIGIT

ITTEE REPORTS +++ COMMITTEE REPO

By ANNA KONDRATENKO

Super Mario, Mickey Mouse, Obelix, James Bond, Doctor Who, Garfield and Forest Gump combined their strengths, to discuss the freedom of speech and information and how to pre-vent the further increase of the commercial crises. After the icebreaker, where every-

one of the 32 delegates and the 2 chairs had to slip into a fictional role, they started with the lobbying for the first topic. After a while they built 4 groups.

Political CommitteeEach of them was debating vigorously just before the resolutions were assem-bled. At 2 pm they went to lunch and afterwards the guest speaker delivered a speech about the free flow of informa-tion. Unfortunately, the resolutions were

not printed yet and so the chairs star-ted with the punishment. Pakistan and Cuba had to rap the Charter of the Uni-ted Nations. Afterwards, the PC could finally

start with their favourite thing to do: debating. The delegates show-ed great motivation and fruitful ideas and resolutions.

SmokingHeads?

A fruitful debate: This guy in the GA talks to his neighbor while rolling himself a ci-garette. The Germans say about people who are thinking on issue very hard, they have “smoking heads“.

Photos: KORAY KOCYIGIT

6 Years, 6 Questions

BALMUN‘S ALMUNI

How many BALMUNs did you at-tend? I took part in five Balmun conferences.

The most important job I did was Secre-tary General.Why are you still here?It is an amazing atmosphere here.

What do you do right now?I study pharmacy at the University of

Greifswald.What has changed?

Because BALMUN is getting more fa-mous, it is easier to motivate people for it.What was the best/worst moment?I will never forget last year’s closing

ceremony. I actually never had an em-barrassing situation, but I always was scared of something embarrassing to happen.Will you take part next year aswell?Of course!

How many BALMUNs did you at-tend?This is my sixth conference; I liked the

position as the Deputy Secretary best.Why are you still here?Self-evidently, to be part of BALMUN.

What do you do right now?Right now, I study Baltic Management.

What has changed? It seems like all delegates are getting

younger each year. Or maybe it is just me getting older ;).What was the best/worst moment?The most wonderful moment was,

when I had to hold my speech at the second conference. I was so nervous but afterwards I was praised so much. Most embarrassing one: I was on quite every gossip-page of the Baltic Herald.Will you take part next year aswell?It would be a pleasure for me if the

team invites me again!

How many BALMUNs did you at-tend?I‘ve been on every BALMUN. Sometimes as a participan, sometimes as a guest. I worked in press team and Inner Circle.Why are you still here?I support my good friend Kevin as a lay-outer for The Baltic Herald.What do you do right now?I do a journalistic education at the Axel Springer Academy in Berlin.What has changed?Everyone seems to be so much younger than me as in year 1. It‘s really time to quit as a participan.What was the best/worst moment?The best and unbelievable thing was to create a whole MUN conference and it‘s newspaper The Baltic Herald. The worst? To recognize getting older.Will you take part next year aswell?Hopefully not.

How many BALMUNs did you at-tend?My third conference and Head of Staff.

Why are you still here?

I want to meet my friends again, and many of them come together at this year’s conference.What do you do right now?

I do an apprenticeship at a school of hotel management.What has changed?There is more know-how, more profes-

sionalism.What was the best/worst moment?I love everything that has to do with

BALMUN. Some things always go wrong, but there was nothing really embarrassing.Will you take part next year aswell?Absolutely!

PART 2

Lisa Godomski Matthias Bannert

Oliver Hartwich

Shu-yi Ngee

Interviews: KEVIN DUSCH

Before... ...AfterChampions of Friday night: the

catering team of BALMUN. The boys and girls did all the food for teachers‘s reception at the Rostock townhall by themselves. Congrats!

VIP party At The Town HallBy KEVIN DUSCH

A very personal speech of the conf manager, great food and relaxed atmosphere: The teacher’s recep-tion in the town hall was a total success.

When everybody found his seat (and everybody got his champagne) Claus Lucas Letsch introducted the traditional and fabulous teacher’s reception with a small but classy harangue. Claus Lucas Letsch ended with the very

emotional sentence: “This is my last

BALMUN conference as a pupil – and up to now the best one ever. “ TEACHER‘s RECEPTION AT THE

TOWNHALL ROSTOCK!And then it began. Not spectacular, not

in a big circle, but in the typical familiar ambience BALMUN is famous for.

But beforehand there was also much work for the catering team. With only twelve stuffies they prepared this ama-zing meal(s). All in all it is to say: It was familiar

as always and atmospheric than ever before.

Photos: KORAY KOCYIGIT

TRUE 87 % FALSE 13 %VOTE RESULTS ON fACEBOOK:

Yesterday we asked if Kevin slept with “The Baltic Herald“ founder Matt, to become the Editor-in-chief. The truth is: No, he didn‘t. But he

has no talent at all, we simply had noone else for this job.Kevin: “Well, I didn‘t it. Yet. Maybe I

should do it? ;-) “

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Lena Prothmann, Chair of the Special Conference

This Girl Is

wHAT HAPPENED

KUHLMEy?THERE, MISTER

The kuhl guy: Johannes Kuhlmey

The rapporteur of the Dis-armament Committee and the lady from the press.MR KUHLMEY, WHAT HAPPENED THERE?Johannes Kuhlmey (Mister

BALMUN 2011) visited The Bal-tic Herald for an exclusive in-terview. He needed to explain some things after The Herald

released an intersting photo.Johannes: “We are close

friends. I‘m still single but I‘m not looking for a girl friend.“Wouldn‘t you be happy

to meet a nice girl at this year‘s BALMUN conference?Johannes Kuhlmey: “It‘s not

the reason for what I‘m here. It‘s enough when everything in the committee and in the conference works.“