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Issue date: 4/5/07 Section: Campus News

Student delegates from TSU meet with anambassador of the Sudan Mission to the United Nationsin New York. The students were attending a U.N.conference. (Hodari Brown)

For nearly a week, seven TSU students met with morethan 4,000 other students from universities all overthe world at the National United Nations Conference,held at the Marriot Marquis hotel in Times Square on March 20-26.

The TSU delegation consisted on Hodari Brown, a senior political science major from Detroit; Erin Brown, a senior biological sciences major from New Haven,Conn.; Veronica Walker, a junior political science major from Miami; Shalinda Miller, junior political science major from State of Dimes, Tenn., Milton Rice,a senior political science major from Indianapolis; Shetima Baugh, a senior political science major fromDecatur, Ala.; and, Marshall A. Latimore, senior arts and sciences major from Birmingham, Ala.

Other historically black colleges and universities that attended the conference included Shaw, Prairie View, Bowie State and Mississippi Valley State universities as well as Rust and Hinds Community colleges.

Among the issues students worked on at the conferencewere international security, peacekeeping, human rights, drug trafficking, water rights and theenvironment, Miglietta said.

Miglietta also said the trip was funded by TSU with assistance from the student government association, Student Activities and the Pilot Center for Academic Excellence in Intelligence Studies. He said the students participated in fundraising activities as well.

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