Members of the Arab Heritage Club holding the fifth
consecutive annual book fair this year were outraged to
see the newly formed Lebanese Mission Club erecting an adjacent
book-matching stand near Ada Dodge Hall, identical to the
AHC stand in every aspect except that it does not deal with
money. AHC has been dominated by the leftist No Frontiers
political student group for the past few years. For its
part, the newly founded LMC has been recently established
by supporters of the Amal movement. While the AHC buys and
sells used books for half of Malek's quoted price, the LMC
merely matches the student who wants to buy a certain book,
with another who intends to sell it. more
Should the media
broadcast and publish to make people happy? Should we
write articles to satisfy and please people? Should
we be like the reporters in the US who report to fellow
Americans only what they would like them to know, while
ignoring things they do not want them to know about?
If the president of a country makes a wrong decision,
do we have to praise his decision in writing merely
because we need something from him and it is in our
interest to do so? Should we bite the hand that feeds
us? more
The point was missed again last week
By Chafic Nassif
Last
week's issue of Outlook must have gotten the highest number
of readers ever in the history of AUB and we have one
political party to thank for that impressive achievement.
I must admit that while writing the article the thought
that it would become so famous in so short a period never
crossed my mind. All I intended to do was to delineate
a picture of what I heard and saw in the week preceding
September 30. more
Petitions that do not mean anything
By
Loubna El-Amine
For
those students who signed a petition against the presumed
sexist standpoint of an article published in last week's
issue of Outlook, I would like to ask whether each one
of them actually read the article that they were supposedly
petitioning against. The article only reported a rumor
on campus that the Sons of Life "were attracting new voters
by increasing their female members." The petition, carried
by the above-mentioned political group, claimed that the
writer of the article assumed that women were tools used
for advertisement purposes. more
My Selves, the students and Freedom of Expression
By
Rabih Talhouk
It's
6:15 pm and I am sitting in a Cafˇ at the beach front
enjoying the sunset and the waves as they splash against
the rocky beach, and watching a couple of fishermen sitting
on the concrete filled barrels that have become one with
the rocky landscape typical of that area. In the midst
of all that I recalled that I am supposed to contribute
some 400-500 words to Outlook to start a weekly faculty
corner in the newspaper. The intent is to elicit faculty
participation in this student publication. more
Your "AUB name" is...
By
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
This
article is the second in a series that highlights relations
between the Student Affairs Office and students. Outlook
readers did not have the chance to read the first piece
that was removed "upon advice." Removal of the first piece,
in itself, reflects how much freedom the SAO has granted
students on campus. Student political parties can propagate
whatever they please, on the condition that they take
for themselves different names. more
Years of traditional graduations
undergoing change
For the first time since 1886, the Board of Deans is
in the process of setting the outline for a new Commencement
Ceremony. "The length of the ceremony was the main reason
behind the change for whatever organized program we adopt,
the ceremony would still turn into a chaos," admitted Maroun
Kisirwani, Dean of Student Affairs. The Commencement Ceremony
of last year's 1384 students' graduation lasted three hours
and a half more
Hassan following in the footsteps
of generations of table tennis
Rami Hassan is one of the most significant members of
our university's varsity table tennis team. He earned last
year's MVP award after leading his team to more than one inter-university
championships. "I started playing at the age of nine. I was
influenced by the older generation in my village who used
to be excellent players," reported Hassan. At the age of fifteen
Hassan joined the Sporting Club for one year, after which
he continued to play non-professionally. more
