Dr. Anthony Campbell , dean of students, will stand in for Dr. Bart Luedeke , president of Rider. Presiding over the ceremony will be Dr. Chau T. Phan , director of the Rider NMUN program. Dr. Peter Aberger , chairman of the department of foreign languages and literature, and Dr. Bosah Ebo , professor of communications, will also be present. Now in its 34th year at Rider, the NMUN gives students a simulated experience of how the UN General Assembly and other international organizations handle and resolve world problems and issues. Participating schools are assigned a UN member state to represent - depending on the size of the team.
Students serve as committee delegates.
Each committee member researches, debates, and negotiates issues in order to arrive at resolutions acceptable to a majority of delegations. Unlike the actual United Nations structure, however, all NMUN teams begin at the same level of power and influence. Humanitarian intervention, intellectual property in space, effects of migration on urbanization, and human rights in armed conflict are among the 30 complex topics to be addressed by student delegates when they meet at the NMUN conference next April in New York City. Last year s NMUN competition attracted more than 2,600 students representing 180 colleges and universities from North America, Europe, and Japan. Delegations from Rider have been cited for numerous awards over the past 33 years, including the top honor of being named Outstanding Delegation four times, Distinguished Delegation three times, and Honorable Mention nine times.