Re: World Moot 2000
Mark McCormack (markmc@ecn.net.au)
Tue Jan 19 07:26:11 1999
Hi everyone
AS I understand it the main issuethat BSA has with a World Moot Mondial is
the consumption of alcohol. I was involved in the Admin committee for the
8th world Moot Mondial in 1990/91, it is was for this reason given but not
offically as to why there will be no US paricipation. Only 4 people came to
the US that year and I do believe there may have been 2 at the 9th World
Moot Mondial at Kandestag Switzerland in 1992.
At the time of the 8th World Moot Sweden did not have Rovers but they sent
one 747 jumbo load of people to the Moot here in Australia, 374 people, all
leaders.
In Australia it is legal to drink at age 18, and thus for control purposes
alcohol was sold on site. This is a far better option then people going off
site and buying booze then bringing back on site.
There are some Rover Scout Crews in the US and they are near the Canadian
Border, but that is the most I know.
The last World Moot Mondial was in Sweden in 1996 and as far as I know it
was a dry Moot.
AS for why the BSA does not support these events I do not understand. I
know it is 18 months away so maybe something can be done between now and
then. Maybe send a later to the World Chief Scout, I do not know who that
person is now but previously it was Neil Westaway and he is very supportive
of Rovers and assisted in the setting up of the 8th World Moot Mondial.
Cheers
Mark
At 16:55 18/01/99 CDT, you wrote:
>For those of you who don't know, a World Moot is like a World Jamboree for
>Rovers, but smaller. One is held every four years, and all WOSM members are
>invited to send contingents. For various inexplicable reasons (see below), the
>BSA is not planning to send a contingent.
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>Yours in Scouting,
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>Alex C. J. Neroth
>E-mail: aneroth@stanford.edu
>URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~aneroth
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>>From: "Alex Chacko John Neroth" <aneroth@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: International events in 2000 (fwd)
>>To: "World Jamboree Chile" <wjchile@dynapolis.com>
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>At the Jamboree, I talked to one of the Mexican Organizers of the 2000 World
>Moot, and she
>told me that again, BSA is not planning to send a contingent "because we don't
>have
>Rovers." I agree; it's completely ridiculous. In order to attend the Moot,
>one must be a
>Rover between 18 and 25 or an adult leader between 18 and 25. The BSA has
>Venturers (who
>are between 14 and 21) and adult leaders (who are 18+). I see absolutely no
>reason why we
>can't send a contingent composed of Venturers and adult leaders who are between
>18 and 25.
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>Yours in Scouting,
>
>Alex C. J. Neroth
>Scout Monitor, Bird Watching Workshop
>Workshops on the Environment, Global Development Village
>International Service Team
>19TH WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE
>
>E-mail: aneroth@stanford.edu
>URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~aneroth
>
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>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:49:01 +0100, Kyung-Bin Cho wrote:
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>>You do have the World Moot year 2000 in Mexico(a WOSM event), which won't
>>conflict with NOAC. As american though, you might have some difficulties
>>to get there, since at last Moot BSA decided to not send any contingent
>>simply because 'we don't have any Roverscouts', which is quite ridiculous,
>>since you must have scouts aged between 18-25.
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>>Yis
>>Kyung-Bin Cho
>>WJ99 IST Hike route 4
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