No teachers were available this year to teach the Model United Nations course, forcing the International Relations department to withdraw funding and cancel the annual trip to New York.

Coached by 21-year-old International Relations major Denis Rajic, five students prepared on their own to serve as the American Delegation to the Model United Nations of the Far West, hosted in San Francisco. They faced the challenge of sticking to the stated foriegn policies of the Bush Administration against an international agenda of rebalance and reform and a hostile "World Press," a daily newspaper published during the model UN conference.