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When I was a kid in the mid 70’s this was actually done in my high school. It was a rite of passage for the senior class. All us underclassman got to be spectators during the 90 minutes or so it took place in the high school gym.

But, to put it mildly, I don't think we ran it as the MUNers intended. It was mainly slapstick exaggerated entertainment of the farcical nature of the UN of dictators pretending to be statesman in that not so subtle stagecraft practiced by high school seniors intent on amusing the underclassmen during their appointed day just prior to Easter break. The key was to sound just serious enough so as not to provoke the ire of the faculty. It made for a very, very good show, some years more than others.

We were so looking forward to our turn at comical satire. I had even drawn the part of Uganda, a role I was looking forward to playing with relish back in the days of Idi Amin. But, alas, when our turn came, we had an early spring and the school board decided to begin construction early to take advantage of lower rates available for a long-planned addition to the high school gym.

There was no way we could conduct our comical farce over the sound of jackhammers. We even had to move high school graduation to the local rodeo arena that year.

Word is that the libs on the faculty who were appalled by the annual farce which was so humorously (& realistically) displayed by senior class running the MUN suggested the project not be renewed for the coming years and the rest of them were happy to go along.