William & Mary Model Congress Blog
Monday, October 19, 2009
Club Meeting
Hey guys,
Isshin here, blogging again, this time about the recent club meeting we had.
In terms of the agenda, some of the more important items included getting organized for the upcoming James Blair Middle School Model Congress conference and training our volunteers for this particular event in the art of chairing a committee.
Stef took a bit of a lead here. Being the Head Chair, we had a small approximately 8 person committee debate out some bills that we had in our conference from last year.
Even though parliamentary procedure is a bit of a hassel and complicated to go through, I think we got the general gist of how to be a chair completed at least for this session. Some of the more main key points included:
1. The responsibility of a chair is to moderate debate
2. The chair has the ability to rule things dillatory for the sake of moderating debate and keeping the floor open.
3. The chair has the role of being the "information seeker" during a conference, and making sure that bills introduced are as accurate as can be in preparation for full committee.
If there is anyone that missed this particular chair training, please let either Daniel Thorpe or Kelsi Weissgold know so that we can get the proper chair packet out to you.
After a lengthy debate about whether openly recognizing Taiwan as a nation was worth it or not for the US, we decided to call it a day.
In terms of big news in the Club Exec Board, I would also like to announce that Stef and I have decided to change our positions to better serve the club.
The James Blair program starts this Tuesday from 3-4:30. Expect some new developments and definately a blog post then!
Isshin Teshima
Vice-President
William and Mary Model Congress Club
Isshin here, blogging again, this time about the recent club meeting we had.
In terms of the agenda, some of the more important items included getting organized for the upcoming James Blair Middle School Model Congress conference and training our volunteers for this particular event in the art of chairing a committee.
Stef took a bit of a lead here. Being the Head Chair, we had a small approximately 8 person committee debate out some bills that we had in our conference from last year.
Even though parliamentary procedure is a bit of a hassel and complicated to go through, I think we got the general gist of how to be a chair completed at least for this session. Some of the more main key points included:
1. The responsibility of a chair is to moderate debate
2. The chair has the ability to rule things dillatory for the sake of moderating debate and keeping the floor open.
3. The chair has the role of being the "information seeker" during a conference, and making sure that bills introduced are as accurate as can be in preparation for full committee.
If there is anyone that missed this particular chair training, please let either Daniel Thorpe or Kelsi Weissgold know so that we can get the proper chair packet out to you.
After a lengthy debate about whether openly recognizing Taiwan as a nation was worth it or not for the US, we decided to call it a day.
In terms of big news in the Club Exec Board, I would also like to announce that Stef and I have decided to change our positions to better serve the club.
The James Blair program starts this Tuesday from 3-4:30. Expect some new developments and definately a blog post then!
Isshin Teshima
Vice-President
William and Mary Model Congress Club
Labels: chair training, chairs, Daniel Thorpe, Exec Board, Head Chair, James Blair Middle School, Kelsey Weissgold, Stef Felitto
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