Listen to the job market
By Elie Abou Samra

High school students from all over the country have been visiting our campus for the past two weeks in a university orientation program. They have been told that AUB is their gate of opportunities, through which they will enter a more abundant life. They have also been told that AUB serves primarily applicants from Lebanon, the Arab world, and other countries of the Middle East, and that AUB seeks to maintain geographic distribution in the region. But these future university students haven't been told that almost 50 percent of AUB graduates leave Lebanon because of the lack of opportunities in the country. We all agree that the source of this ever-existing demographic problem springs from the scarcity of natural resources and capital. Another logical argument is that labor leakage originates from the corruption of nearly every government institution more

Iranian versus American cinema: which one is "evil"?
By Loubna El-Amine

American movies are obsessed with the idea of evil. One just needs to look at the majority of films produced in Hollywood to notice the great emphasis on the dichotomy between good and evil and on the only way to exterminate evil, through violence and bloodshed. American filmmakers are also attached to their childhood images of monsters, dragons, and fierce armies more

Protection is to protect...
By Elias Saliba

It was a Sunday after noon. I was visiting my friend's father at the CCU in the AUBMC. Suddenly we heard screaming and shouting; then it got crowded more and more. Out of curiosity I went out to see what was happening. It was the first time I have seen a person humiliated because he was doing his job. A member of the Office of Protection of AUB was sitting on duty at the CCU entrance. A group of guys wanted to come in to visit a patient, and apparently, as the rules declare, the guard more