Students
protest confiscation of freedom
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AUB
students staged a demonstration in front of College Hall on
Monday denouncing last WednesdayÕs raid on University Saint
Joseph, when Internal Security Forces barged onto an Independence
Day Protest on campus and tore pictures of last AugustÕs Anti-Syrian
demonstrators that were assaulted by the ISF at the Justice
Palace. While both AUB and LAU held peaceful sit-ins, USJ,
NDU and Balamand University have officially suspended classes
for the day. Ziad Matraji from the Movement of the Commoners,
Patrick El-Ghazal from the Free Patriotic Movement and Anwar
Abdul- Baki from the Progressive Youth Organization condemned
the ISF intrusion, emphasizing
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 Dependance
Day
By
Rana Siblini
Dependence and independence
has been a major issue for the past two weeks. From ÒindependentsÓ
in SRC elections to ÒindependentÓ Lebanon, there is not
much difference. A week ago at noon, we were celebrating
here in AUB 58 years of ÒindependentÓ Lebanon. The Lebanese
flag was raised together with the AUB flag. An hour later,
other students, including some AUBites, were protesting
in the Lebanese University against the ÒfakeÓ independence
that Lebanon manifests in our day. Lebanon is so similar
to the scene
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A serious article
By Rami Salame
I am
continuously being urged by acquaintances and complete strangers
alike, to write a Òmore serious article.Ó They tell me that
I shouldnÕt write about flies or cats. I should, by their
counsel, tackle the more somber issues of politics, student
elections or Statements-of-Fees. As a show of openness I
have written this imperative article: Everyday and for the
last many years I have been walking to AUB in the morning
on a daily basis. The walk lasts me 20 minutes, yet completely.
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Vandalism is a joke
By Mustapha Tannir
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I was making my way down to Bechtel (home of my major),
I stood witness to an atrocious act of vandalism. A male
student wearing a blue cap was busy transforming the P of
the ÒPitch In!Ó sign on the trash can to a B. As he completed
his task, he looked up at me and grinned. Quietly he placed
his tip-pex (or white-out) pen back in his bag, and walked
off as if nothing
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a student study any subject without the proper textbooks? A
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Second
round of student elections:
Cabinets and USFC
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for the competition on the position of treasurer, there was
a unanimous consensus on most positions in the FAS SRC cabinet
and USFC elections in Ada Dodge Hall on Monday, when most positions
were secured by acclamation. The CommonerÕs
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