Sons of Liberty, 1765 Case Western Reserve University Model United Nations Spring Conference 2020 CWRUMUN•CCWA Spring Conference 2020 FROM YOUR CRISIS DIRECTOR Dear Delegates, My name is Sydney Olney, and it is with distinct pleasure that I welcome you to the Sons of Liberty, 1765 Crisis Committee! Sons of Liberty, 1765 is based on the activity of various chapters of the revolutionary organization, most notably, the Boston and New York groups. This committee will provide delegates with the unique opportunity to exercise their knowledge of revolutionary history in a fast-paced, dynamic, and contemporary setting. As delegates of Sons of Liberty, 1765, you will fight for representation, utilize the power of the mob, and influence the trajectory of the American colonies towards (or away from) revolution. The fate of your countrymen is in your hands! I anticipate that many of you will be completely new to crisis—that is okay. We will reward research, hard work, and initiative. An involved and inexperienced delegate will have more impact on committee than a disengaged veteran. The committee will also look favorably on well- rounded delegates who are able to balance speaking time, directives, and crisis notes. As such, try your best not to neglect one part of your role for another, as every aspect of delegate performance will be considered when determining awards. My utmost hope for our two days together is that all of you will be able to learn and grow as delegates. I didn’t start Model United Nations, until college, so I know what it’s like to feel completely out of your depth in a committee. If you have any questions on crisis elements, parliamentary procedure, or anything else before or during the conference, please feel free to email me or any other staff. Questions are indicative of a delegate’s investment in the topic at hand, so no one should feel uncomfortable or embarrassed asking for help. I am excited to meet all of you, and welcome again to Sons of Liberty, 1765! Sincerely, Sydney Olney [email protected] [1] CWRUMUN•CCWA Spring Conference 2020 MEET THE TEAM Sydney Olney Patrick Lee Jacob Warmath Crisis Director Chair Staff Sydney Olney is a sophomore Patrick Lee is a 3rd year Jacob Warmath is a freshman at Japanese Studies and Anthropology Cognitive Science Major at Case CWRU from Charlotte, North major as well as the current Western Reserve University. He is Carolina. Jacob participated in Secretary of the CWRUMUN team. a Residential Assistant and has Model UN throughout high school She began Model United Nations as been a part of the CWRUMUN attending conferences such as a freshman in college and was team for all three years of college. HMUN and MUNUC. He has He has cochaired DISEC and immediately hooked by the previously chaired for his local high chaired a Crisis on China and transient nature of debate, policy, school conference and for the UNSC before. He likes and social dynamics on the conference at CWRU this fall. He is experimenting in the kitchen interested in studying both competitive circuit. Outside of whether with baking experiments computer science and data science Model United Nations, Sydney is or cooking new dishes. He really an active member of her sorority, enjoys hiking and rock climbing. but for now is unsure in which he works as a campus ambassador for During Winter Break he went home will end up majoring. Outside of the Harvard Innovation Labs to New Jersey to visit family and Model UN most of his Startup Ignite Mental Health, and friends and enjoyed a relaxing few extracurricular time goes into spends her summers teaching weeks. playing club ultimate for CWRU's immersive Japanese at Concordia competitive men's team. Over Language Villages. Sydney has Christmas break he travelled to always loved American history, New Zealand for two weeks with particularly periods of internal his family and spent the rest of the unrest and instability, so she is break at home in Charlotte. excited to see what delegates have in store! Sydney spent her Christmas break petting dogs, reading books, playing Dragon Age, and watching The Good Place. [2] CWRUMUN•CCWA Spring Conference 2020 INTRODUCTION TO idea before entering committee of want it accomplished), and how CRISIS how you plan on pushing your crisis (how the group or individual you arc both front room and back room. are writing to will help accomplish Characters and Crisis Arcs Both front room and back room your goal). It is important to offer unique ways to exercise your remember that crisis notes are often Every crisis arc begins with a character’s power and carry out used for promoting actions that may character. Unlike General your crisis arc. be frowned upon or go entirely Assemblies, your crisis character is against the agenda of committee, so Directives a living, breathing person prone to it is important to cover your tracks subjectivity and self-serving Directives will be your means of in your notes. Ambitious delegates motivations. The best delegates will action in the front room. They are may consider writing joint crisis lean into even the most trivial short and often collaborative notes in which the resources of two information in their biographies to collections of clauses that aim to or more delegates are used to create a believable and entertaining address specific obstacles in achieve a certain outcome (to be character. After you understand committee, especially those clear, this requires the signatures of your character, it is up to you to resulting from “crisis updates”, all delegates involved on said note). create a “crisis arc”—a which will be covered later. Crisis Lastly, remember to get creative! comprehensive, long-term plan for directives follow roughly the same The more fun back room staffers your actions in committee. Crisis format as General Assembly have reading your notes, the better arcs should be kept private to clauses but should be much more response you will get. prevent other delegates from substantive. For example, a longer interfering in your plans. A good Crisis Updates directive condemning a recent riot crisis arc, like good crisis notes, but taking no further steps to The last element of crisis are “crisis consists of a what, why, and how: address the problem will have less updates”, which are random events What is your desired outcome? impact on committee than a shorter introduced to committee by the Why are you pursuing your desired directive that creates anti-mob crisis team. Crisis updates are outcome? How will you achieve militias. Crisis directives are voted usually the result of delegates’ prior your desired outcome? Once you on in waves by simple majority, actions in committee, both front have fleshed out your character and typically with for and against room and back room. Delegates your crisis arc, you are ready for speeches. should aim to have their arc appear committee. in every crisis update, as doing so is Crisis Notes Front Room and Back Room essential to success in committee. Crisis notes are essential to a While directives are committee- Crisis Committees are generally delegate’s back room agenda. On driven and thus common broken down into two separate the college circuit, crisis notes are knowledge, your back room actions means of influencing committee: typically written in the letter format, are not. Thus, while you want your front room and back room. Front addressed to a specific group or notes to impact the crisis update, room, like General Assembly, individual and signed by your you may not always want your entails giving speeches and character. As many of you may name to appear within it. Keep this working with other delegates to continue with Model United in mind as you write your crisis pass written policy. The role of Nations past high school, we notes. Crisis updates are meant to back room is to push your agenda in encourage you to use this format. A test delegates’ quick thinking, so be ways that you don’t want the rest of good crisis note, like a good sure to address the problems committee to trace back to you, for character arc, needs a who (who brought up in updates in your example, sabotaging the plans of you are writing to), what (what you directives and crisis notes. committee or investigating other want accomplished), why (why you delegates. You should have a clear [3] CWRUMUN•CCWA Spring Conference 2020 HISTORICAL conference team. The list of The Empires of Britain and BACKGROUND unacceptable topics to pursue in France both claimed to control the committee includes but is not Ohio River Valley, but with Introduction limited to pro-slavery movements, competing claims conflict was indigenous violence, genocide, imminent. The British claimed to The Sons of Liberty were active sexual assault, human trafficking, be the rightful owners of the land, for the English government had in colonial politics before war and prostitution. I trust that previously granted royal charters crimes and human rights were delegates will exercise the worded such that all land between popularized concepts. As such, it appropriate consideration on this will be impossible to avoid topics of Canada and Florida was part of front both inside and outside of 5 torture and mob violence against British colonies. France, however, committee. had its own claim to all the land in civilians both in the historical the Mississippi Valley, which background and in committee. I do The Seven Years’ War included the Ohio Valley. 6 With Beginning in 1754 and ending in ask, however, that delegates British colonists slowly making 1763 the French and Indian War approach these topics with the their way further inland in order to served as a direct predecessor to the maturity, tact, and grace befitting of trade with Native Americans allied American Revolutionary War.