- official balmun newspaper -Issue 2/2010 • Saturday, June 12th .com

HopingThis year‘s Secreatary Gereral is Oliver Hartwich. Herald Editor-in-chief talked with him about his aims and hopes. PAGE 2

ShoppingWe take you on a walk through the best places in Rostock. Have a look on the shopping mile Kröpeliner Straße. PAGE 3

StudyingYou‘ll find in the heart of Rostock our University. Find out how it‘s like to study where others make holidays. PAGE 5

Facing Global Problems House meets for the first time: Ambassadors open third BALMUN conference / Special guest Dr. Joachim Dippner

INTERvIEW BY Dorothea NaueNburg

First of all, the president checked the presence of the participating countries by raising their placards. Then the delegates who are in the special conference left the room.

Afterwards, the partici-pating countries and NGOs had to come to the front

in alphabetic order and in groups of five to hold their

opening speeches.Most of the countries re-

minded the audience of the duty to act now and to face the problems of climate change and global warming together, as well as keeping peace and cope with the fi-nancial crisis and fight the hunger in the world. These problems can only be solved united.

The only exceptions were Iran and Cuba. Cuba pointed

out that capitalism triggers the climate change indirectly because the capitalists own the companies who cause air pollution.

Moreover the Iran held the most aggressive opening speech. The delegate asked: ‘Who are the bad guys? Why do we get sanctions?’ In ad-dition to this he said that the western states caused the cli-mate change.

For further information

take a look at the interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Ros-tock-Warnemünde sent a special guest for opening ce-remony.

Now the delegates are well informed: According to this year‘s main topic Mr Joa-chim W. Dippner told about the climate change. He‘s an expert on this area.

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Editor-in-chief Johanna-Katharina Möller

Coordination, layout Matthias bannert

Editorial staff Luise Jacobs, Leonie Vetter,Franziska Van heiden,Charlotte Schliebs, antje Strafiel, Franziska Weigt, tom Schwelps, Dorothea Nauenburg

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Executive ManagersMatthias bannert, erik Muttersbach

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EDITOR‘S Note1st Day of BALMUN

11.49 AMThree girls of the press

team (Antje, Leonie and Lotti) and I are sitting here in front of our computers. We just phoned the radio station “N-JOY” and asked for “Wavin Flag” to be played. And of course we greeted all Balmun mem-bers! Balmun goes public!

1.39 PM

Press Team - Caught In The Computer Room

We wanted to go out of our computer room (where two computers fell off the holding device!) to look for white paper – but there was no escape. The doors were locked - by a teacher. And the press team was lo-cked in the room. But with the help with our walkie-talkies and the other friend-ly Balmun members from “outside”, we were rescued. And then the show went on!

Johanna-Katharina Möller

Herald Editor-in-chief talkes with Secretary General Oliver Hartwich

June 8th, 2010 (only two days left till Balmun!),1 p.m at ISG Rostock: The Secretary General, Oliver Hartwich, and I are leaving the biology room. We are going to the cafeteria. Interviewing a class mate? First I thought this could be difficult but....we are pro‘s. :)

INTERvIEW BY JohaNNa-KatharINa MöLLer

Oliver, you are the Secre-tary General of this year‘s conference: How does it feel?

Of course I‘m really hap-py and proud because it‘s a great challenge. But I have to say: I was a bit lucky.

In which way?

Well, to be honest: First, someone else was the real Secretary General. Some months ago, when we star-ted working on Balmun, Mrs Koch, the main responsible person, asked me to be the Deputy Secretary General. And of course I agreed. But then, the Secretary General couldn’t go on working for Balmun and he left our team. So I became the new one.

Secretary General – what does this mean? Which tasks do or did you have?

I helped arranging the conference and now I‘m re-sponsible for a smoothly go-ing event. Of course I had to talk to, phone and mail many important people but I also had other tasks, for example counting Balmun stuff like biros or buttons.

Was the last time very stressful for you?

I really liked doing all these things so I never felt stressed or anything like that. Sure, there were times when I felt a bit under presser but I think this is how it works. And now I‘m looking forward to the conference and I think it will be great.

In what way are you inte-rested in the topic Caring for Climate?

I think protecting the en-vironment gets more and more important. Everybody is responsible for the clima-te. And I think every person can protect it and can put an eye on it. So I‘m really glad our delegates will debate this topic during the next days.

At last I want to know so-mething about your wishes

and hopes for the confe-rence....

I hope that I will meet many great people. And of course I want to hear good and interesting debates be-cause I hope that everybo-dy says in the end: “It was a great decision to take part in Balmun 2010.

And what about amuse-ment?

That‘s important, too. Such an event wouldn‘t work wit-hout fun. And I‘m sure that this conference will be fun, too, for example because of the Baltic Herald and its gos-sip page which I really enjoy.

And with these words Oliver says goodbye to me. With a little fearful smile he adds: “I have an appoint-ment at the dentist‘s” What a very busy young man....

“I want everybody saying that it was a great decision“

head of the united Nations for one weekend: Secretary General Oliver Hartwich (16) PHOTO aNtJe StraFIeL

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Religious Intoleranceat BALMUN

Special Conflearns aboutClimate

Discrimination at BAL-MUN: Yesterday three de-legates from the Iran were searching for the Press team. They had special news for us: At a bar table they told us the whole story. Listen carefully, guys:

They knocked on the door from the Security Council because they wanted to take their friend out for praying to Allah! But the chair Fried-rich Leukert didn’t allow it. “This is very disrespectful!”

What a shock for the delega-tes from the Iran! When they talked with us, they were very very upset. Delegate Ludwig Küster said that the big countries from the West are very intolerant. Do you want to see and hear what he had to say, then watch the vi-deo announcement.

VIDeo Watch the video announcement from the delegation of the Iran on our website.

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BY CharLotte SChLIebS

Special day for the Special Conference: Yesterday at noon the delegates arrived at the huge building of the Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde. After they had been welco-med by the three scientists Sven Hille, Kristine Neu-mann and Bernd Schnei-der, Mr. Hille told them so-mething about the Institute and the Baltic Sea in general. Kristina Neumann showed with her presentation about the “Greenhouse-effect” and a little experiment about the

BY FeLIx AND FeLIx

Specialists for water and climate: The Baltic Sea Research Institute in Warnemünde

PHOTO the baLtIC heraLD

pollution of water from the Baltic Sea how important it is not to pollute the environ-ment with too much CO2. Who would imagine that we would only have a tempera-ture of -33°C without this effect, which describes the reflection of solar radiation with the help of CO2?! Sub-sequent to the third presen-tation of Bernd Schneider the delegates made some experiments concerning the solubility of CO2 in tap wa-ter and salty water. In the end Dr. Nausch, guest speaker of the EC, gave a presentation about the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea.

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Downtown with

3, 2, 1 – Our tour through the longest shopping street in Rostock, which is called “Kröpi”, can start. You want to relax, see something of Rostock, meet people, go shopping or only want to eat and drink something? Then you should come with us....

Fastfoodand Fishfood

Of course, there are a lot of fast food stores like McDonald‘s (e.g., Pizza Hut, Subway (Sub of the day for about 2,50 €) and Burger King) in the “Kröpeliner Street”. But if you want to eat something typical from Ros-tock you should have a look for a fish-store (e.g. “Portola” or “Nordsee” where you can buy a fish-roll for about 2-3 €). If you want to spend a litt-le more money you should eat something at a Chinese or Italian restaurant.

Smoothies for 3 Euro

How would be a coffee or a hot chocolate now? Visit “Stadtbäckerei” (Hot Choco-late for about 2 €) or “Mey-erbeer Coffee” (try the Latte Macchiato for about 3 €). For the one‘s, who like to drink something healthier and col-der, there is the “Fruteria”. That offers great smoothies for about 3 €.

What fits better to a warm summer day than ice-cream? Nothing! Visit ice café “Mila-

no”. Sit down there and order a great sundae (5-10 €). If you don‘t have the time to sit down you can order a scoop of ice cream for 0,80 €, too.

Another ice café that is che-aper but smaller is “Janny‘s Ice Café”. There you can eat a crêpes, too.

Listen carefully, girls: Du-ring a walk through “Kröpi” you‘ll see many clothes stores like H&M. But if you want to see more you should go in “KTC”.

It’s the biggest (and only) shopping center in the street. There you can find for ex-ample New Yorker and Zara (and Swarovski! ;))

While the girls are shop-ping, you, dear boys, can go to Saturn and Sport 2000, which you can find in “KTC”, too.

Relaxingin Downtown

After this long walk you might want to relax a bit. Sit down at “Universitätsplatz”, a nice meadow in front of the beautiful university. You won‘t meet only students the-re. Take a look at the fountain in the near of “Universitäts-platz” or the typical hansea-tic houses.

Another good place to re-lax and to feel the hanseatic flair is our port. Buying a second chocolate or an ice cream at the “Schokoladerie de Prie”, watching the sun-rise or just sitting there and relax, our “Stadthafen” is also a very famous place of our lovely hometown.

BY JohaNNa-KatharINa MöLLer

beautiful rostock: Start your shopping tour in KTC (right) and relax on the Universitätsplatz, which is the heart of Rostock.

PHOTOS aNtJe StraFIeL

Leon (15) France

Chocolate or cookies?Cookies

Basketball or soccer?Basketball, of course.

I like Balmun, because…It’s very professional.

It’s my …time at a MUN.1st

Faces of BALMUN

Fleur (17) USA

Chocolate or cookies?I think the best are chocolate cookies.

Soccer or basketball?Soccer.

The world cup 2010 will win…Netherlands.

When I arrived at Rostock I was…Very tired.

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Shu-Yi (15) Staff coordinator

Coffee or water? Coffee

If I had 1000€ I would…Make a trip to the Caribbean

It’s my…time at a MUN3rd

The world champion ship will win…Germany

Faces of BALMUN

Studying seaside – where others spend their holidays

The marvellous Hanseatic City of Rostock convinces with its excellent university characterized by individual support for students, proxi-mity to the Baltic Sea, Han-seatic charme and low living expenses. The University of Rostock was founded in 1419 as the first university in the baltic-sea-region.

The city of Rostock is fa-milial, but not provincial at all. Rostock is a major city with 200,000 inhabitants - still, the university is not a „mass university“. Gorgeous-ly restored or modern new buildings accommodate the single faculties. Individual

support and full-value com-munication and consultancy times are one indicator for top quality. Furthermore: Rostock is not a pricey place, it has a high living standard but is not cost-intensive. One will quickly get in touch with other students but also with professors and lecturers. Many students are involved into current research pro-jects of the institutes, e.g. as student assistants – the qua-lity of your studies and your purse will profit from this.

Currently, there are about 15,000 students enrolled at the University of Rostock. Studies and teaching are cha-racterized by a close teacher-student relation. Central

BY Dr. uLrICh Vetter*

In the heart of rostock: The main building of the University of Rostock. PHOTO the baLtIC heraLD

service facilities like the lan-guage centre, the university computing centre and the ca-reer service provide students with important assistance to enhance their expertise and skills. The International Of-fice helps to organize studies and internships abroad and gives consultancy and sup-port to foreign students at the university. Come and see – you are welcome!

See website:www.uni-rostock.de

*Dr. Ulrich vetter is Head of Communication of the University of Rostock

INFO traDItIo et INNoVatIo

The University of Rostock defines its position in today‘s knowledge society with the guiding principle „Traditio et Innovatio“ - reflection on a history rich in tradition, starting with the foundation of the university back in 1419, and a clear focus on innovation in all areas of research and education. The university is managed by a rectorate which comprises of the Rector, two vice-Rectors, the unique vice-Rector of Student Affairs and the chancellor.

Structure of UniversityFaculties/Schools

It is divided into the following nine faculties:

evangelical theology

philosophy (and arts)

mathematics and natural sciences

law

engineering

agriculture and environmental sciences

medicine

economic and social sciences

electrical engineering and informatics

research

The university co-operates with several independent research centres. Among those:

Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics at Kühlungsborn

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research at Warnemünde

Leibniz Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals at Dummerstorf, in co-operation with the German federal government

Leibniz-Institut for Catalysis

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Fraunhofer-Institut for Graphic Data Processing

Sanjana (14) Canada DC

Skirt, dress or trousers? Dress

Chocolate or cookie?Cookie

Cat or dog? dog

I like Balmun, because…It’s very interesting to discuss political themes.

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BALMUN‘s Next Top Checker

Do you know this guy?Andreas checks out girls at BALMUN conference. Press team is sceptical.

PHOTOS toM SChWeLP

“Wir haben heute leider kein Mädchen für dich!“

BY CharLotte SChLIebS

Can you imagine that we have one BALMUN-dele-gate who doesn’t like BAL-MUN? That’s unbelievable, isn’t it? When we heard this we were shocked. It was in the first cookie break of the opening ceremony when the Press-Team was looking for some interviews. He – the BALMUN-hater was the first one we interviewed. Our BALMUN-hater likes cof-

fee and chocolate. Until yet it sounds very normal. But than he said, that he doesn’t like BALMUN! SHOCK! But why is our BALMUN-hater here? Does he want to eat some Burgers from Burger King? We know it! Yester-day he and his friends sat on the meadow in front of the University of Rostock. And what did he do? He was flir-ting with us! Is he only here for flirting with other girls? We think YES. Let’s call him “BALMUN-checker”. But there is another surprising point. He isn’t single! But what will happen when his girlfriend will read this artic-le? We’ll see …