Hoping to enhance its premier recruiting event, the Office of Admissions has changed the face of this year's Yeshiva University National Model United Nations. Entering the twenty-first century, the conference will have new administrative assistants equipped with laptop computers assigned to each committee.

"We felt that as good as last year's conference was, there was room for improvement and hopefully with these new innovations, we will make the conference even better," explained Conference Coordinator, Moishe B. Singer.

The new post of administrative assistants will replace the loosely defined position of conference rapporteurs. This year, administrative assistants will be responsible for typing all committee correspondences, a job once reserved for resource room staff, in the committee rooms.

Whereas in past conferences any material that needed to be typed was sent to the Resource Room, this year the administrative assistants will type the papers themselves. YUNMUN Secretary-General Shai Barnea believes that this will also cause the administrative assistants to work more closely with delegates than any previous Yeshiva undergraduate students.

While the chairs and assistant chairs work closely with the high school delegates, they cannot foster friendships with the delegates since they are responsible for keeping order in the committees and also for determining which delegates receive awards.

"The administrative assistants will serve as conduits of information between the chairs and the delegates," explained Barnea. He also added that an additional responsibility of the administrative assistants will be to approve an material that is to be typed.

Barnea adds that a benefit of the administrative assistants working closely with the delegates is that the high school students will be able to "get to know the YU students." The Office of Admissions has a "hands off" recruitment policy at YUNMUN and according to Associate Director of Admissions Ryan Hyman, Yeshiva University students have always been our best recruiters. The high school students come to Yeshiva because they see what YU students have to offer and what they can achieve."

With the administrative assistants typing papers in the committee rooms, it appears as if there is no longer a need for the Resource Room. Singer disputes this claim, "The new Resource Room will be a scaled down version of the original. Whereas before, we had twenty computers in the room along with a printers and photocopiers, now we will have only a handful of computers alongside the printers and photocopiers."