Students must participate in decision making
By Elie Abou Samra
During the first semester of this year, student-administration communication carried on at a different level from what it used to be. The sit-in-trend for objecting to administrative inconsistency in the university was nearly absent. Thinking wishfully, we believe that the situation does not reflect students' obliviousness towards the disappointing performance of the administration in any way. Our explanation of this phenomenon rather revolves around the idea of students taking the initiative to transform this vital channel . more

Who said life is fair?
By Lama Tassabehji

A long time ago when I did not even know the meaning of being mean, I told a teacher that the grade he gave me was not fair. You know what he said? "Who said that life is fair?" Well, being nine or ten years old at the time, I had no idea what he was blabbing on about. But now I do. First-come to registration, first to get the course. The system is one of first- come-first served. You are a junior more

A revolt without rebels
By Loubna El Amine

Rebellion has now become nothing but a metaphor, a purely linguistic nostalgia for what was once thought to be a radical notion. It's now more like a scent of a wild flower: pervasive, evasive, light and intractable. *** To say that you are a rebel in Lebanon is to put yourself in a ridiculous position where you are either looked at with scorn or with pity. The surviving leftists claim to be rebels. Some of them still believe in revolution: they disdain more