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Some students go through high school without ever finding their passion. Some do find it in a club at their school. Others use their passion to create a club.<\/p>\n
Junior Jacob Roset has the vision of a club, and plans to bring it to our school. He has brought up the idea of a Model UN club, and rallied many of his classmates around this idea. Though it hasn\u2019t come to fruition yet, Roset has worked on making it a reality. He said, \u201cI feel like as student with a purely American perspective on the world, we need to get perspective based on other countries and their strengths and weaknesses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Model UN is a club based on acting as \u00a0mock representatives from a selection of countries. Junior Nathan Rives, another advocate for the creation of Model UN, said, \u201cSome students get together and they are all delegates from represented countries, and they try to solve world problems using the given policies of their country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Roset has already garnered support for the club. He said, \u201cI\u2019ve gone around to quite a few guys in my classes, and a lot of them are really interested in the idea of a Model UN, and would love to give it a try if it were to come [here].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In Model UN \u201csimulation conferences,\u201d students solve problems for their given country, which aren\u2019t always true to life. Roset said, \u201cWe would meet after school once a week and do Model UN. I\u2019d like to make it more interesting. While also doing the normal scenarios, I want to try to incorporate things that are a bit outlandish, like what your country would do if Godzilla showed up, or if there was a zombie apocalypse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n To start a club at our school, a student needs a sponsor to help run and represent the club. Rives said, \u201cI\u2019ve gone to Mr. Massery, and tried to talk to him about getting him as a sponsor for the club, and he has gotten approval from Mr. Straessle to start it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Model UN isn\u2019t the only club that students would like to see at our school. Junior Alex Bromley came up with the idea of a debate club. He said, \u201cWe lost the Young Republicans and Young Democrats, so there\u2019s no way for them to get together. There\u2019s political awareness, but it doesn\u2019t bridge the gap between the two. We want to mesh them together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Debate club, as Bromley envisions it, would meet once a week for around an hour. In it, the students would break up into small groups and discuss a universal topic. Then students in the small groups would debate with one another with the best speakers discussing in front of the whole group. <\/span><\/p>\n To Bromley, debate wouldn\u2019t just be for fun — it has some potential to help students later in life. \u201cIt\u2019s about who can have the best ideas and who can best articulate them. It\u2019s also about training so that you can better formulate and speak what you want to say.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve gained a sponsor, but since there are so many clubs that are being formed or want to be formed, we\u2019re working out [if there is room for debate],\u201d said Bromley.<\/span><\/p>\n In the end, Bromley and Roset have worked toward creating the club they\u2019ve dreaming of participating in, and both hope their respective clubs will be tangible soon. Roset said, \u201cIt\u2019d be a great addition to Catholic\u2019s list of clubs. If we got [Model UN] running, I would definitely choose Norway [as the country I would represent]. It\u2019s my bloodline.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Some students go through high school without ever finding their passion. Some do find it in a club at their school. Others use their passion to create a club. Junior Jacob Roset has the vision of a club, and plans to bring it to our school. 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