Twenty-eight AUBites raced down the slopes of Faraya
on Sunday on a ski trip organized by the International Students
Office, while others visited the ice skating arena in Zouk.
Both groups later reconvened for a farewell lunch, organized
to bid goodbye to the several visiting international students
leaving Lebanon near the end of the fall semester. The trip
was open to all AUB students, in order for international
students to better integrate with the Lebanese people. The
farewell gathering took place in Khan el Mir in the old
souks of Zouk, providing more
Switzerland of the Middle East
By Elias Abou Samra
Prior to the civil war, Lebanon had always been portrayed
as a haven for freedom and democracy amidst a neighborhood
dominated by tyrannical military regimes. I n the 1950Õs,
it contained thousands of Arabs, mainly Syrian and Egyptian
businesspeople and landowners who had escaped state
socialism in search of a democratic republic where they
could exercise their entrepreneurial rights and skills.
Fifty years later, the government has been transformed
into scarecrow for foreign and local depositors. In
the post-war era, consecutive governments have declared
that the fastest way for Lebanon to climb up from the
ruins is through attracting foreign investments. They
have realized that during. more
Any state, Òwhere men and women do not have a common
purpose and do not throw all their energies into the
same activities, is absolutely stupid,Ó underlines Plato
in The Laws. ÒAlmost every state, under present condition,Ó
continues Plato, Òis only half a state and develops
only half its potentialities, whereas with the same
cost and effort it would double its achievement.Ó Yet,
more than 2000 years later, women in the Arab world
are still brainwashed, manipulated, and enslavedmore
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VAT to affect tuition fees
AUB does not seem to differ from other institutions
around Lebanon, in that it also faces a vague financial future
only a few weeks before the implementation of the Value Added
Tax law. In an interview with John Bernson, vice president
for finance, Outlook probed into AUBÕs readiness to adapt
more
On the verge of defeat
AUBÕs football team let dozens of chances go by in their
game last week against University Saint Esprit-Kaslik, but
never the less, managed to end the game with a 4-4 draw. The
AUB team initiated the kick-off in the early evening at AUBÕs
indoormore
