By Chloe McCullough – Staff Reporter

The Jonathan Law Model U.N. Club has many new members and is ready to start the year off strong.

With about 44 new members, the advisors of Model U.N., Mr. Evanko and Ms. Burns, are excited to achieve their goals for the club this year. Bringing down the cost of the annual New York trip is the main goal for this year.

“Our goal is to fundraise enough to bring the cost down considerable from previous years,” Evanko said. “It usually winds up being about $500, but we’re hoping to bring that to maybe $300 or $400.”

The club is hosting several Shake the Can events at Stop & Shop, selling concessions at football games, and holding other various fundraisers in order to fundraise enough to bring the cost down. The club will also be hosting Retail 101 on October 21-23.

The club plans on repeating many aspects from last year, and previous years. They will be researching their countries, practicing with parliamentary procedure, which is a form of debating, and a lot more prep for the conference.

“I feel like I am ready to be a part of the conference in New York, after being a part of the Yale conference,” senior member Mike Jalaf said.

Jalaf will be going on the New York trip this year and he will be participating in the conference.

The club meets every Friday, to research their countries and discuss fundraising techniques for the upcoming year.

“We started the club four years ago, and it has continued to grow, and I feel that this year will be the best year, with new energetic students and great people coming from the club,” club president Ms. Burns said.

The club will be continuing to research countries, and all of the students will be writing their position papers on their countries. There is also a lot of new fundraising events that they will be hosting.

The club hopes to sell candy grams at Halloween this year, and they also plan on having a movie night at the football field.

“I am most excited for the conference this year because the club, as a whole, is a lot more serious than last year and we have the goal of winning an award at the end of the conference,” co-president Sam Rossi said.

The club hopes to win an award at the Yale and New York conferences this year. The club is continuing to expand, with many new members who are interested in what the club is all about. The new members and officers are eager to compete and debate real world issues.

“The officers are really organized this year and are ready to help the new members of the club prepare for the conference. Members are focused on the topics that we’re covering and are really excited to participate in the conference. We’re all really looking forward to this year,” secretary Gina DiFederico said.

The officers are very excited for this year’s turnout.