The dispute between the administration and the Employees
and Workers Union has culminated in a demonstration of the
Union last Tuesday. Around 200 workers marched from the
Faculty of Law of the Lebanese University in Sanayeh towards
the American University of Beirut Medical Center, repeating
their condemnations of the university's firing of the president
of the Union, Mohamad Zayyat, and of one of the members
close to him, Hassan Hdadeh. They admonished what they considered
as an "infringement upon the syndicate freedoms." Supporting
the demonstrators was the General Labor Confederation and
its president Ghassan Ghosn. more
No one can start
on a brand new page. Your history is what makes you
who you are. A person who has been in university for
the past three years cannot expect to start newly with
no records and no opinions. The people that this person
has met, courses s/he has taken, everything that happens
to people during the past; developes them into the people
they are now. Just the mere fact of getting accepted
into a university shows that your past met the standards
of the university. You get accepted into a university
based on your records in school not on what you hope
to achieve in university. The past is history, but a
history we can learn from. The future is a mystery but
a mystery we can be prepared for; more
Parties and political drafting
By Chafic Nassif
The
2002-2003 fall semester officially commenced on Monday
September 30; however, preparations for this year's student
body elections, which are to take place in November, started
long before. Most, if not all, political parties present
in our university have already initiated their "recruitment
campaigns" that mainly target freshman and sophomore students.
All over campus new unaware students are greeted, welcomed,
and systematically introduced to the ideas and beliefs
of a certain faction or another. Currently the most gregarious
parties competing in the race for recruitment are the
No Frontiers and the Commoners who seem to be going head
to head over the issue. more
Occupation: The father of all terror
By
Saifedean Ammous
While
the world is turning all its attention towards the anniversary
of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
the whole of humanity seems to be so determined and adamant
to fight terrorism and eradicate it from this world. People
have gone as far as to follow the traces of terrorism
to the highest mountains of Afghanistan and the tightest
straits of Tora Bora. All this is well; however, before
going through all this trouble to fight such terrorism,
people should turn their attention into other forms of
terrorism, more evident, public, and insulting to humanity,
namely, occupation. more
Last Saturday new students were taken for the annual
trip to the Ancient Roman City of Baalbeck. The trip was mainly
organized for new students to discover Lebanon. Five buses
were necessary to transport more than two hundred students
to the 2,500 year-old city. Numerous old AUB students went
on the trip to meet and assist the new freshman and sophomore
students. more
Homentmen steals 3 class one players
Three of our varsity's top football players have recently
been enrolled into the ranks of the Homentmen Football club.
Shafik Sidani, Mohamed Sawda, and Tarek Sibai will have the
opportunity to play in the Lebanese league should they sign
a one-year contract with the above mentioned club. So far
these three players have participated in two friendly games
with their new team, one against Aahd, and the other against
Shabeb El Sahel. "The object of these two games was to try
out the new players in the team," explained Siba more
