Daou
and Chourafa declared provisional winners of FEA paper rally
The Faculty of Engineering and Architecture paper rally
ended late Sunday night with Marc Daou and Nabil Chourafa
(car #16) declared winners of the grand prize of two million
Lebanese pounds. The second place prize, a sum of one million
Lebanese pounds, was awarded to car #25 driven by Hady Abu
Khuzam, Rayan Rajeh, Amine Talih, Ayman Abu Said, and Mazen
El Ghosseini. The third place 750 thousand Lebanese pound
award was won by two cars participating as one team composed
of Nadim Daher, Nicholas Dibai, Fadi Adwan, Alain Abi Aad,
Habib Haddad, Johnny Khoury, and Rami Rafih. However, the
organizing committee stated that the above results were
only provisional pending a recount of the points to confirm
each team's official rank. The course of the paper rally
was divided into six main stages, three on Saturday and
three on Sunday. The first stage of the first day was from
AUB to Aley. more
Recently a small
fold out booklet was handed out on campus with lists
of items concerned citizens should boycott. One can
only deduce that this was done to make life easier for
the boycotters, especially since so many times they
think something should not be boycotted and it turns
out that it is actually on the prohibition list. "Is
Hardees British, or is it Burger King that is British
and Hardees that is American?" we her people asking.
A different and more detailed list in Arabic was given
to me the day before. The difference in this list was
that the author lists the reasons why a person should
boycott a certain brand or company, listing in what
ways the specific company is helping Israel. Dunkin
donuts, that is found all around Lebanon, even in Tripoli,
that supposedly other lists include as an American brand
supporting Israel, is not included in this specific
Arabic list. more
Beirut Ya Beirut: No hope of change
By Joelle Abi Rached
A
voice lamenting. Beirut is agonizing. Then the elegiac
violin becomes softer and lighter. The enchanting notes
of the flute announce a light of hope in the dark tableau
of a Beirut in fury. This is how Professor Azoury, in
the "Beirut Suite" Concert in memory of Dean Raymond Ghosn,
chose to portray existentially in words, music, and dance
a Beirut torn apart during our hysterical civil war. Then,
behind my back, laughter of ignorant students. They could
not grasp that the fragmented, brusque, and jerky movements
of the three ballerinas (that apparently made them laugh)
reflected the absurdity of the war. Kamal Salibi is right
after all. Unless the Lebanese come to agree on a common
vision of their past, they will be reconstructing sand
castles. more
The reasons behind the non-existant
media department in AUB
"Sometimes when I listen to BCC and CNN I think that
Israel is occupied," commented the renowned British journalist,
Independent correspondent Robert Fisk, less than a week ago
here in Beirut. When a member of the audience expressed concern
about the quality of the media in the Middle East, Fisk corrected,
"Lack of quality, you mean. more
Bizri: "I am a very peaceful person....
My last resort is fighting."
Ziad Bizri is one of the most persevering members of
the varsity Shotokan karate team. He is a fourth year student
majoring in computer and communication engineering and this
is his third year on the team. He started karate out of a
personal need for a sport that can be practiced every Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday. "It happened that karate training was
taking place every MWF in the late evening and that suited
my schedule." more
