1. ALWAYS FREE ISSUE NO.2
BISSMUN TIMES
International
Cooperation, Fun,
and Learning
were the key
words for
BISSMUN 2010
Closing Ceremony
The BISSMUN closing ceremony was a joyous (Grade 8) . The winner of Most Likely to Win a
occasion to celebrate the hard work that all the Nobel Prize was Vashuda Mukherjee . The winner
delegates have completed over the past two days. of Most Likely to Become President was Glenn
Five awards were given out to delegates. The Foh . The winner of Most Likely to End Up in Jail
awards were Best Dressed, Best Speaker, Most was Charles Zhou.
Likely to Win a Nobel Prize, Most Likely to There were no speeches or formal
Become President, and Most Likely to End Up in announcements made, as the ceremony was
Jail. Student were chosen for each award in each mainly to congratulate all the hardworking
committee (Human Rights, Environmental, delegates. Everyone also had a small snack to
Political, ECOSOC), and they competed against help relax the atmosphere. Everyone had a great
each other for the final award. time at the closing ceremony, and all were very
The winner of Best Dressed was Sophia (Grade happy about how well BISSMUN succeeded this
8) . The winner of Best Speaker was Terry Zhai year.
continued on page 2
Grade 10 student Nitish joshiʼs interview Interview with the Human rights committe Racism in education debate going on in
about what he thinks about BISSMUN chair Frena Hailekiros human rights. See what it is all about.

2. An Interview with
the Human Rights AROUND BISSMUN
Committee Chair-
Frena Hailekiros
Frena Hailekiros who is the
human rights chair of BISSMUN
2010.
by Ana Christina
Q: What is your job in BISSMUN?
A: I am the chair of the Human Rights
Committee.
Q: What does a chair do?
A: A chair runs the meeting thats going on
and they help the delegates and tell them
what to do so they can pass resolution.
Q: How many countries are involved in
BISSMUN?
A: 24 countries are involved
Q: What did you learn about the topics
your committees is discussing?
On the right is , and the left side is the
A: I found out that there are issues that
everybody should get to know because they other BISSMUN Human Rights
are very important. For instance, the Committee chair, Tan Yu Lynn, Grade
delegates who are involved in an education 9.
issue will be able to know that some people
donʼt get proper education. It will help them
in the future and get a better understanding A: I donʼt know all the issues in other really good experience for the students later on
about the problems around the world. committees, but I think they are all important in life. It teaches us a lot of new things about
because we searched different issues that this world.
Q: What is one of the hard things of being people would like in this school. In my
part of the MUN? committee, I think racism in education is the Q: How long have to been a part of
A: The hard part would be encouraging most important issue. BISSMUN?
delegates to talk and to express themselves A: Last year I was a delegate of UAE and this
not to be shy and thatʼs my job as a chair to Q: Do you have any opinions about the year Iʼm the chair of the Human Rights
help them. BISSMUN? ( How can you change it to Committee, so itʼs two years.
make it better)
Q: Which issue do you think is the most A: I guess we need more organizing, getting
important one in this yearʼs MUN? .
people to be excited about it because its a
Prepare for Pandemic Diseases in Developing Countries
As time passes, the risk of disease increases and it starts worrying people. It especially worries people who don’t have a
good medical background or someone without any Health insurance. It also worries people who don’t have immediate
access to clinics or hospitals.
HIV, Swine Flu, Dengue Fever are some well-known pandemic diseases. Over 2.5 million people die due to such diseases
each year, around three-quarters of the 2.5 million people living in either developing countries or undeveloped countries.
Take, for example, Swine Flu (H1N1). Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few days, you will know the world just
faced a deadly swine flu pandemic that originated from Mexico. Last year over 20,000 people died due to swine flu just in
Mexico. This is just ONE example of the many diseases. People die due to such diseases each year.
Hospitals and clinics are in desperate need,especially in developing countries. We hope that that the house of ECOSOC will
be able to come up with some good ideas that can and will make a difference in the future.

3. Unifying North and South Korea
Nowadays, there are lots of problems and issues that need concern, such as global warming,
littering, and racism. But there is one particular issue of importance which is to reunite North and
South Korea once again. This issue is being considered, but success is unlikely. The US is interfering
with the relationship of both countries, as North Korea says. There is a huge wall in the middle of
the two countries, and nothing else in the open land. This division happened during the Korean
War. Both countries were at war. South Korea had the UN support, while North Korea had the
People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Should they be reunited? Most people say that
they shouldn’t, because of the conGlict they have had for the past 5 decades. It is known that North
Korea will likely say no, so could South Korea. No one can be sure if or when they will be reunited.
- Xavier Tan
Germany
Since Germany is located in the heart of Europe, it has many neighbors. Nations touching its eastern boundary are the
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The total area of Germany is 137,854 square feet, a little bit smaller
than the state of Montana in the United States. Germany includes Jlat lands, hills, lakes, rivers, mountains, and large
areas of forest.
TOURIST PLACES IN GERMANY
The best place to go when you are in Germany is to Frankfurt as it is the old imperial city on the Main. It is one of the
most important commercial and economic centers in the country, with the headquarters of the Bundesbank, the
leading German stock exchange and numerous major banks. Numerous international trade fairs are held in Frankfurt
every year. Frankfurt has earned the names of “Mainhattan” and “Chicago on the Main”.

4. Mexico
Spanish, as a result of a previous Spanish military, Mexico has the 3rd‐largest defense
invasion and occupation. budget in Latin America. In fact Mexico actually
is the 11th largest economic system in the
Mexican art has a history, too. 1940 and 1950 world. As an export‐oriented economy, more
Mexico has the greatest examples of Latin
American Cinema.
Mexico is also the Jifth
largest country in the
Americas and it’s the
world’s 11th most
populous country and the
most populous Hispanic
country on earth.
By Julia Li
Mexico is near the
• ••
equator. It’s a
mountainous and dry
Hola México! Mexico has a long country, but some regions
history and it’s in North America. Mexico used are green. Mexico’s yearly
to occupy more of North America than it does median temperature is
now. Throughout history, several nations fought between 24 to 28 °C. But
against Mexico for control of Mexico’s valuable on the mountains it is quite
natural resources and fertile land for farming. common to Jind snow. It’s
Eventually the U.S. took control over a large than 90% of Mexican trade is under free trade
estimated population is 111 million. Its
section of the country, helping deJine the agreements with more than 40 countries,
government is based on a presidential system
Mexican boarders of today. Mexicans speak including the European Union, Japan, Israel, and
according to the 1917 Constitution. About its much of Central and South America.
An Interview with the Grade 9 delegate, Nitish Joshi
By Kento and Joe
•••
A:I think debating is the easy
part, because you have all your
Q: How do you feel about Q:What issue are you doing? materials ready and you need to
BISSMUN?
A: I think BISSMUN is pretty A:About Nuclear disarmament. read and support them, not
There are people who want to ban improvise much.
tiring to do, but pretty fun. I get
nuclear disarmament like
to argue in conferences, and also
America, who already has nuclear Q: Have you learned something
say that other people's ideas are
weapons, while some countries from this project?
wrong. I also get to support my
like Pakistan and North Korea I think I learned how to write
resolutions.
want to make more because they resolutions and how to debate.
want to be more powerful.
Q: When did you come to BISS?
A: 2 years ago. To be precise, 2 Q: Do you feel confident about
and a half years ago. the conference?
Erm.... not really. But I'm just
Q: What committee are you nervous.
doing?
Political Committee Q: What do you think is the easy
part in BISSMUN?

5. Sustainable Development by Reducing our Dependence
on Fossil Fuels Advantages and
Disadvantages
Everyone uses energy every day, and there are two types of energy ‐ non‐ Using non‐renewable
renewable and renewable. Renewable energy are sources that can be energy is much cheaper
replenished in a short period of time. The Jive main renewable energy sources than using renewable
are Biomass, Hydropower, Geothermal, wind, and solar power. Only 7% of the energy. Most families, and
energy used in the United States is renewable energy. Non‐renewable energy factories can afford it. In a
sources are sources that cannot be made again in a short period of time. There modern coal plant,
are a lot of non‐renewable energy source. Oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear electricity is generated at
power are non‐renewable sources that are indispensable. Over 85% of the 7.8 cents a kilowatt‐hour (in
energy used in the world is from non‐renewable resources. US dollars). However a wind
­Lawrence Ding plant is over 12 cents a
kilowatt‐hour, and solar
electricity costs almost 24
cents. per kilowatt‐hour.
However, non‐renewable
energy will not last forever.
There are different
estimations, but all agree
that the end of these energy
sources is very close. Oil will
last only for about 70 more
years.
Prevent Racism in Education
WHAT IS RACISM?
Racism is a developed attitude that includes unfriendliness by a group of “favored” people toward the unfavorable
position of another group, premised solely on skin color or race. Some authors suggest that racism and white racism
may be similar, but deJining racism as a primarily white problem does disservice in two ways. It ignores the fact that
racist attitudes can breed in any ethnic group and it undermines the expressed goals of this decade's most promising
solution‐‐multicultural education. Celebration of diversity is a better foundation for racial harmony than is class
guilt.
HOW DO RACIAL ATTITUDES ?
By age two, a child notices color differences. In the next two to four years,
the child begins to identify with his or her own racial group. At that point
he or she forms preference patterns on the basis of the prevailing attitude
within the group, and not by contact with a racially different group.
Parents are the earliest and most powerful source of racial attitudes
(positive or negative), while peers run a close second. By the early grades
every child carries at least some racial stereotyping.

6. An Interview with Guest Speaker Ms.Tania Belisle LeClerc
Top 10 activities that made BISSMUN great!
on for the Model United Conference,
continue working on the same issues
to help improve the world that we live 1.
BISSMUN Times
in.
2.
Dressing up
6: Have you got any suggestions for
next year? 3.
Dedicated delegates
So far no, I would have to think
about that, but only that you should 4.
Terrific teacher support
have another one next year to
by Niraj, Ga Eun, Ji Min
encourage you to hold it and to 5.
Rockin’ Resolution
continue discussing some of the
••• issues, challenges and problems that
1: Why did you decide to come to we are facing in real time.
6.
No regular classes
BISS for BISS MUN?
I had the opportunity to come and see 7: How is BISS MUN and the real UN 7.
Students ruled the day
how a Model United Conference works conference different?
here and I wanted to see how it was I guess this is much shorter 8.
Fantastic guest speaker
organized, and also to have the than how the normal UN conference
opportunity to share my own works and it's great, because it's very 9.
Free food !
experiences working at the UN. intense. And often negotiation in the
UN can take weeks and weeks so that's 10.
The amazing Ms.T
2: What is your speci<ic job in the one of the main differences. Otherwise
United Nations? we have delegates from all around the
I'm the political police ofJicer, and I world just like you do and we discuss
work on the planning of peace many of the same issues, often not
operation in the situation of conJlicts. quite so many issues on the same day
so this is impressive. It's quite intense
3: Where are you from? here.
I'm Canadian, but I live in New York.
4. What do you think about BISS
MUN?
So far I'm impressed that students are
very friendly. It's a large nice school,
and the conferences quite organized.
5: Do you think BISS MUN will make
a difference in the world?
I hope so, and I hope that some
of the students who are working on
the same issues that they are working
Best-dressed Most likely to end up in jail
Most Likely to win Nobel Prize
Already Avoiding
the Paparazzi -
No Photo
Available!

7. ALWAYS FREE ISSUE NO. 2
SNEAK PEAKS
ECOSOC
Today was when the real
debating started. All the delegates were
dressed very formally and business-like
which made them look very professional.
All were very excited to start debating
because they all believed that they had
very good resolutions, which they
thought would get passed. After some
lobbying the chairs Michelle and Maggie
declared the debating to begin.
The topics they would be
debating were high food prices, status of
women in developing countries and
preparing for diseases in developing
countries. Everyone was so enthusiastic
when they were speaking. Some of the
resolutions that got passed include
Denmark (Taehun Lee), USA (Jessie
Demnar), South Africa (Jiwoong) and
Philippines (Pichayut). All the other
resolutions showed good work and
excellent research. In short, everyone HUMAN RIGHTS
did great jobs.
Debating in the Human Rights delegates. The feedback was must
Committee have been in the form of a question,
and they are called “Points of
Today, the Human Rights Information”. Points of Information are
committee started debating on the questions asking delegates about
main topics that are being focused on different causes and effects of their
in the committee. The first topic that resolution. Delegates can then make a
was debated, was discrimination speech supporting the other
against women. Delegates from delegateʼs resolution, which will allow
different countries gave their it to be signed.
resolutions to solve the problems, and
were asked feedback from other - Alzira Fernandes
continued on page 2
Middle School Debate! As you all know there Some fun word puzzle games for you! let see
Delegates hard at work reviewing is an ASA ‐ Middle school debate, you get to if you can Jigure out all the words hidden on
resolutions debate with other international schools and page no.
you get to prove yourself! YAY!

8. Political
reducing the threat and numbers of though a lot of people went for this
existing nuclear weapons, and resolution, some countries believed
identify rights and responsibilities that they needed Nuclear
of member countries to the UN. Disarmament to protect themselves
There was a lot of note passing which (like North Korea). When it was
shows increased communication
among the delegates.
The delegates of several
countries discussed four
resolutions. Three of the resolutions
passed and one failed. The
by Crystal Leung
resolutions that passed were:
•••
ReuniJication of North and South
Korea (submitted by France), and
Nuclear Disarmament (submitted by
Today was a big day for the delegates
Brazil and South Korea). The last one
and chairs of the Political Committee.
failed and it was the USA’s resolution
They started discussions on some voting time, the USA resolution had
on Nuclear Disarmament. The USA
very important issues that affect the the support of the vast majority but
gave a lot of good reasons on why they
people around us. These included the then suddenly, Russia used veto
should ban Nuclear Disarmament,
ReuniGication of North and South power to go against this resolution,
such as having the nations support
Korea, nuclear disarmament: and so, it failed.
banning Nuclear Disarmament. Even
BISSMUN ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE DEBATE
This morning, the Jirst debates in the Environment Committee of BISSMUN began. They maintained their level of
concentration despite the noises of the elementary school sports day outside. The chairs, Jun Su and Laura, sat at the
front of the classroom and called the delegates up to the front to declare their country’s resolution. The Jirst issue
debated was Combating Deforestation and DesertiJication. Some delegates that represent countries, such as
Australia, France, and Mexico, believed that there is an increase of deforestation of rainforests in Southeast Asia,
South America, and Australia because of logging industries, growth of cash crops, damming projects and mining. The
second issue that was debated was Promoting Sustainable Development by Reducing the World’s Reliance on Fossil
Fuels. This matter was very important because a lot of people in the world have argued back and forth about this
issue. The delegates had many opinions for this topic. The Jinal issue was a ban on whaling which has to do with
banning killing whales. Some countries like Australia support it it, but Japan and Norway are against it. It was a
compelling debate in the environment committee this year at BISSMUN, and will continue the excitement next year.

9. SOME FUN GAMES
BISSMUN vocabulary search­a­word
How well do
you know
your
BISSMUN
vocabulary?