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Thanks to our wonderful staff and delegates! We hope to see you back for BUCS 2013.

The conference at a glance

Who?

• One hundred college students from across the United States and around the world

What?

• Joint crises: you will have to respond to decisions made by other committees
• Settings for all tastes: modern, historical, and futuristic
• Small committees: no more than 20 people each

Where?

• Brown University
  Providence, Rhode Island
• Providence is served by T.F. Green International Airport and is also easily accessible from Boston's Logan International Airport.

When?

• Thursday, March 8, 2012
  – Sunday, March 11, 2012

Dear delegates and faculty advisors,

It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 Brown University Crisis Simulation (BUCS) in the historic city of Providence, Rhode Island. BUCS strives to bring together delegates from all around the world and engage them in intense negotiation and debate in the context of a fast-paced joint crisis environment.

What makes BUCS unique compared to other Model UN conferences is its structure: joint crises for delegates of all interests, with modern, historical, and futuristic topics. Delegates will assume crucial roles on one of our interconnected committees in each joint crisis, constantly reacting and making decisions in response to real-time directives from our dedicated team of crisis staff. Each delegate’s decisions have the potential to affect not only how events unfold for their committee but also events in other committees and the flow of the joint crisis altogether. What results is truly an experience centered on you, the delegate, as you use diplomacy, force, and guile to further your interests and bring the crisis to a favorable resolution.

BUCS is not just a four-day Model UN conference. It provides the setting for hundreds of intellectual, like-minded individuals with similar interests to collaborate and learn from each other. With interconnected committees, the inherent nature of the joint crises, and fun social events, we believe BUCS 2012 will be an unforgettable experience, both in and out of committee sessions.

We hope you will join us in 2012 for what promises to be an exciting and enriching Model UN experience. If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact us. On behalf of the whole staff of the conference, we look forward to personally welcoming you to Brown next spring.

Mark Hu & Nathan Malkin
Secretaries-General for BUCS 2012