Sunday marks the last day of CAHSMUN. However before delegates can depart there is one last thing to do: morning crisis! Arguably the best part of CAHSMUN, morning crisis is a chance for delegates to lead their countries, write directives, and of course have fun!
However, morning crisis is slightly different for those of us in the IPC. Instead, us journalists were provided with a checklist filled with random tasks for us to complete as we visit different committees. While some tasks were as simple as spotting a delegate in the wild, other tasks were difficult to pull off. So, as we left our little hallway this morning, we were already plotting how we were going to cause trouble and seriously bruise our egos.
On Saturday, the IPC encountered a minor territorial dispute with members of Greenpeace. Since then, both the dais and journalists have been writing articles intent on harming Greenpeace’s reputation. Thus, it only makes sense that we would be tasked to disrupt their crisis by tearing up a plant drawing in front of the entire committee and tell everyone that plants are doomed.
As Euronews sat in the back of Greenpeace’s large committee room, two other members of the IPC came bursting through the door, and marched straight to the front of the room. The reporters walked with an extreme amount of confidence, almost as if they were protesting against Greenpeace. They then tore the picture in front of thirty-seven helpless environmental activists. At first, the room was silent, delegates confused as to why these two random reporters were ripping paper in front of then. However, once the IPC members explained that it was a drawing of a plant, the delegates immediately became shocked and appalled. How could IPC encourage such things? To top it all off, one reporter looked straight at the crowd and said with utter confidence, ” Plants are doomed!”
Of course delegates were not pleased with this act of terrorism. Euronews is proud to say that the IPC took a win over Greenpeace. I applauded my fellow reporters for their strong act of bravery and left them room, as Greenpeace delegates began sending questioning looks my way. These reporters restored IPC glory and spiced up an otherwise circular debate.
After leaving Greenpeace, Euronews sat down in the NASA committee room, where debate was yet to start. As I waited for session to begin, another IPC reporter walked in and completed yet another interesting task. Because NASA is a space related company, the reporter went up to the front of the room and recited ” Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” for the entire committee to hear. I was yet again proud of my fellow IPC member and admired their confidence.
After they left, the reaction of NASA was less shock like Greenpeace and more confusion and laughter. The delegates stared at each other asking ” What just happened?”
After leaving the NASA committee room, I quietly snuck into the Commonwealth committee, where delegates where spilling out of the door. The committee was in the middle of an unmoderated caucus, making it easy to sneak inside. Once inside, Euronews completed a task and took a selfie with the United Kingdom flag. The picture is featured on the article title. The other commonwealth delegates looked quite confused as to why a random person was taking selfies in their committee room. Nonetheless, we were quite amused leaving the commonwealth room.
While IPC reporters do not have a typical morning crisis, it was definitely quite amusing to watch the chaos unfold in the different committees.