Overview
This committee will function as a traditional crisis committee, with an emphasis on teaching foundational MUN crisis skills. The committee will function on a two-pad note system, where delegates will be given two legal notepads to write their crisis notes on, and the backroom takes one pad per cycle. Each of the two pads should be filled with notes addressed to one external contact, such as a mother, spouse, or powerful relative. The note cycle duration will vary depending on staffing and the speed of committee debate. On average, it will take 30 minutes to process one pad and collect the second. Crisis updates will take place interspersed with committee, likely coinciding with the note-collections. Unlike traditional crisis committees, the Lego BOD will have one specific special procedure where delegates may utilize lego blocks to further their arcs through directives and note cycles.
Topic: One Hundred of Solitude
Deep in the Colombian countryside lies the town of Macondo, founded by the Buendía family and seemingly forgotten by the rest of the world. Yet in this strange and magical place reality rarely behaves as expected. Time moves in strange cycles, ghosts wander freely through the streets, and extraordinary events appear as ordinary parts of everyday life. Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, this committee blends history with magical realism, creating a place where politics, myth, and imagination intertwine. Generations of the Buendía family have shaped the fate of the town, but their story is far from finished.
As the town faces political upheaval, foreign influence, civil conflict, mysterious plagues, and seemingly endless rain, the people of Macondo must decide how their story will unfold. Outside forces bring both hope and destruction, while the past continues to haunt the present. The people of Macondo may find themselves confronting revolutions, economic exploitation, and supernatural occurrences. In Macondo, reality and myth blur together, meaning that solutions may be as unusual as the problems themselves. Will the town break free from the patterns that have haunted it for generations, or will it fall deeper into the strange destiny that seems to be written in its very roots?