DAYMUNC XV General Information

Schools may now begin to submit their registration and request country assignments by emailing contact information and countries requested to Heather Wiehe at heather.wiehe@daymunc.org. All questions regarding assignments should also be directed to this address.

DAYMUNC registration fee: $25 per delegate

To confirm your assignments, we need a $25 deposit (which is later applied towards your total delegate fees). Country assignments will be tentative until we receive the deposit.

Please make your checks to Sinclair Community College and mail them to:

ATTN: Thomas Martin
444 West Third Street
Dayton, OH 45402-1460.

Receipts or an invoice can be provided upon request.

A note on registration and country assignments:

In keeping with past practice, we will try to make sure that everyone who wants one gets a Security Council country; since we normally have 15-17 schools in attendance, this means that initially, we will assign each school no more than one SC member. However, as time goes on and SC members have not been spoken for, we will start assigning more than one to schools who want them.

Members of the Security Council need five delegates to cover each committee; non-members require three. One delegate per country per committee, please - we discourage doubling up.

Background guides are now in preparation and will be available on the website about a week before Thanksgiving.

About DAYMUNC

The Dayton Model United Nations Conference (DAYMUNC) is the only American collegiate conference sponsored by a community college. It is open to delegations from all colleges and universities, as well as to non-academic adult groups interested in international affairs. We offer state-of-the-art Internet and Web access, an experienced staff, and a comfortable setting at Sinclair's David H. Ponitz Center.

Model UN conferences, held all over the world, are a popular and fun way for students to learn about international affairs. The Sinclair event is one of only two conferences in Ohio, and the only one anywhere sponsored by a community college.

At DAYMUNC, students from 16 colleges and universities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and West Virginia will represent more than 60 countries in five committees.

After months of research and preparation, delegates will discuss a wide range of world issues and try to negotiate solutions. Natural disaster response, nuclear-free zones, democracy in the Middle East, and nation-building in Afghanistan are among the topics. The committees include two Security Councils, two General Assembly committees, and an Economic and Social Council.

We plan to remain relatively small, so that every delegate has a chance to participate fully. We also try to emulate the rules and practices of the National Model UN in New York.

DAYMUNC is above all a learning conference - we are here to have fun, learn something about international affairs and UN procedure, and to meet and socialize with students from other schools. It is not a teaching conference - delegates are guided, but not directed; we welcome students and adult groups from all levels of preparation and experience; everyone's opinion is equally valued.