General+Information+for+Admin

=How to be an Admin=

What to Wear:
You're expected to dress formally. This means no sneakers, no jeans, no hoodies, etc. Girls: if you wear a skirt, appropriate length please. Wearing your uniform is ok, but not optimal. If you're still not sure, check out the picture gallery.

What about the Admin Staff on Friday?
On Friday, delegates only lobby and merge. This means they're not actually debating, except for the Security Council. As the schools arrive, admin staff need to help with registration (which might include copying handbooks and changing badges), help put out the placards in the different forums, and direct people where to go to their forums and where to put their bags. You know the school: visiting schools don't.

Note that Security Council will start debating very quickly. You might not have much to do the first hour, but the other three you will be busy passing notes and counting votes.

After the opening ceremonies, you will be needed to show people where they can print their resolutions, print copies of things for the student officers, as well as general things like showing people where the bathrooms are or where the cafeteria is for dinner. Basically, if anyone doesn't know where to go or needs something, you're the person to ask.

Notepassing:
Delegates are allowed to send notes to each other during the conference. This works kind of like live email, with you as the internet.

-Delegates hold up their note -you collect it and read it. If it is about something not related to MUN, you give it to the Chair. If it is about MUN, you give it to the delegate it is for.

Amendment Paper
Delegates can make changes to a resolution by submitting amendments. There is special paper for this which the chairs will have. If a delegate wants to make an amendment, they should ask you for amendment paper.

Counting Votes
When each debate is done, the delegates will vote on the resolution. The Chair will tell you when this is by saying, "We will now move into voting procedures. Admin Staff suspend all notepassing and secure all doors." When they say this, you:

1. Stop passing notes 2. Lock the door or stand in front of it so no one can go in or out 3. Count how many people are for, against, and abstain. The Chair will tell delegates when to vote for what.

In larger forums you won't be able to count all the votes by yourself, and will have to work together with the other admin. Split the room into groups (tell the chairs how many groups you made.) Each admin counts votes for one group. When the chair calls out your group, you tell them how many people voted. The chairs will then add the numbers together.

Going to the Bathroom during debate
People will ask you things like where the bathroom is. Delegates who go to the bathroom during a debate should send a note to the chair first, unless the chair says otherwise. When the chair replies, they need to give you their badges so you know who is not there. When they come back, you give the badge back. If they come back while the forum is voting, don't let them in. It's their bad luck.

Cellphones and Laptops
Delegates should not be using laptops during debate. The same goes for cellphones. If you see someone using a cellphone, give them a warning. If they use it multiple times after you tell them to put it away, feel free to take it and give it to the chair.