The student-run Â鶹´«Ã½ chapter traditionally hosts around 1,000 students from various high schools for three days.
The group, now in its 43rd year, recently hosted a conference for more than 800 high school students.
Kofi Annan, the soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world’s conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles that stained his record as a peacekeeper, died on Saturday in Bern, Switzerland. He was 80.