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INSIDE SCOOP Is pink the new black? The new voice-activated WebCT 4 NEWS 2 caravan.aucegypt.edu Volume 86, Issue 8 Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005 T HE S TUDENT - PRODUCED N EWSPAPER OF THE A MERICAN U NIVERSITY IN C AIRO C ARAVAN Ethar Shalaby / THECARAVAN From left: Mohamed Ahmed, Sherry Arnold and Zizi Derbala give candy to Lidya Salib and Mohamed Bassem during a Halloween celebration that took place at the AUC Daycare Center last Monday. Trick or Treat Charismatic laughter rings. Her spiky silver boy- cut hair devilishly beckons you. Clearly, Leila Saad is no run-of-the-mill theater professor. Defying all age constraints, at 68 she still has a keen lust for life, some- thing that is obvious in all she does. And the best part is that her students love her. Saad studied at AUC in the mid-60s and took courses in English literature and theater after transfer- ring here from London University. Officially, there was no theater department at that time. Theater was only offered as an elective, Saad said, but Bob Harper, her theater professor, motivated her about acting. He “threw me on stage and got me interested in theater,” she said. During her university life, theater productions were strictly fun, but acting in AUC now is “so much more a professional concept than when I was here,” Saad said. While Saad did not stay at AUC for long, she left her mark with “Greedies.” When the Greek Campus was first created in 1965, she opened a small cafeteria with a few of her friends that sold homemade food and desserts along with freshly-blended juices. Shortly after, in 1966, Saad, a native of Cairo, left for the United States to complete her undergraduate degree and graduate studies in theater and education at Portland State University. She also took theater cours- es at the University of Southern California. In 1977, Saad began her 25 year career at Boston University in Massachusetts where she was the faculty advisor to the theater group and the assistant dean of students, as well as a professor of acting and public speaking. Saad was very attached to her parents and attrib- utes her “value and who [she is] today” to them. She retired and came back to Egypt four years ago to care for her mother, who passed away two years ago at 90. “I spent two wonderful years with her,” Saad said. In his memory, Saad adopted her father’s name as her middle name. “I’m very proud to be his daughter,” she said. Her father, Erian Saad, who passed away in 1974, “taught [her] a lot of great values.” Erian, a pre- vious member of a popular political movement had an active role in Egypt’s 1919 revolution. While caring for her mother, Saad worked with Misr Language Schools, helping its administration with the American diploma program, and with her son in his construction materials company. BY FOUAD HAMMOUD Caravan Reporter ‘Legendary Leila’ lights up the stage in theater classes The departments of business administration (BADM) and journalism and mass communication (JRMC) are currently seeking accreditation from their respective international associations. The BADM is seeking accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the JRMC is seeking accred- itation from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC). “Accreditation for schools is to further validate the certificate,” said Rasha Abdullah, assistant pro- fessor of mass communication. “The accreditation comes from an international body that agrees that we [AUC] meet certain international standards.” The BADM’s self-evaluation report took four years to be completed. “It’s not just a file or some things written on paper,” said Ibrahim Hegazy, chairman of the man- agement department and associate professor of mar- keting. “We [the department] had to develop some activities over the past four years in order to meet the required standards.” Hegazy said that the self-evaluation report was sent to AACSB last August. The BADM is expecting a visit from the AACSB team in March 2006 to eval- uate the department. They will find out whether they were approved or not in June 2006, said Hegazy. “The reason we chose the AACSB accreditation body is because it is the strongest,” said Hegazy. The AACSB is the most credible accreditation body because it bases its judgment fairly, without any financial influences, he added. The JRMC is currently working on its own self- evaluation report, which is to be sent to ACEJMC next year. According to Provost Tim Sullivan, one of the requirements for accreditation by the ACEJMC is for the faculty members to hold a doctorate and have significant media experience. Another requirement is including practical as well as theoretical teachings in the university’s cur- riculum. “I think the Adham Center and the Caravan will count positively for [the JRMC department],” said Sullivan. However, achieving accreditation is no easy task. “Accreditation is not an easy process, [because] we are pursuing excellence,” said Hussein Amin, chairman of the mass communication department. “Less than 100 [journalism] programs out of thou- sands are accredited in the US.” “There are a lot of good journalism schools that are not accredited,” said Sullivan. According to the 2005 AUC catalog, “AUC is accredited in the US by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.” The last visit by a full accred- itation team took place in May 1998 as part of the re- accreditation review process. The next evaluation visit is scheduled for the 2007-08 academic year. Many AUC students agree that it is important to seek accreditation for the various schools and departments as well as for AUC as a whole. “AUC is the Harvard of Egypt,” said Darah Rateb, a business administration senior. “We are sup- posed to be competing on an international level. When I graduate, if I work in a multinational compa- ny and the company moves me to one of its branches abroad, I’ll need my certificate to be accredited.” “Accreditation would give me the advantage of doing my master’s abroad,” said Mahmoud Ahmed, a business administration sophomore. BY SHEREEN EL GAZZAR Caravan Reporter JRMC, business departments seek accreditation Student Council: Only AUCians may lead clubs and conferences The student council has implemented new rules for non-AUCians who want to participate in univer- sity activities and student conferences to ensure that all decision-makers in student activities are AUC students. “Doing activities for students at AUC is our pri- ority,” said Aida Maged, the director of student organization activities. “We love to have partici- pants from outside AUC but not at the expense of AUC students.” The latest changes made to the 2004 Permanent Constitution of the General Assembly of the Student Body, which sets the rules and regulations for stu- dents’ activities, ensure that at least 50 percent of the secretariats of any organization must be enrolled in AUC. The amendments made to the constitution fur- ther clarify the exact roles that students outside AUC can fill, said George Thabet, the Student Council Chair. All high board members must be enrolled at AUC throughout their term. “The number of all students not enrolled in AUC participating in an organization committee must not exceed five percent,” say the new rules. Anyone studying outside AUC is not allowed to hold a managerial position. According to the Constitution, “High board members … are defined as the president of the organization as well as the heads and vice presidents for academic and organizational affairs. Also, treas- urers, secretaries, and organizational committee heads fall within the same definition of a high board member.” “AUC students must be the main executors of any student activities. Student organizations are prohibited [from using] external assistance in plan- ning, management, fundraising, marketing or publi- cation designing,” according to the Constitution of the General Assembly. Maged said that the decision was entirely deter- mined by the students. “[Non-AUCians] don’t have a grasp of the rules and regulations,” Maged said, adding that the Office of Student Development (OSD) has no control over non-AUCians’ actions. BY HASSAN HASSAN Caravan Reporter SU hopes to standardize club benefit packages In an effort to resolve fundraising problems between clubs and conferences, representatives from campus organizations joined to propose a res- olution that would standardize fundraising regula- tions for all activities. Many activity representatives complain about the lack of coordination between organizations in fundraising and getting sponsors. “All the conferences and clubs go on fundrais- ing appointments in the same time of the year,” said Mohammed El Taweel, the International Student Leadership Conference’s head of fundraising. This decreases the chances of getting sponsors to sign contracts, he said. “The scene is getting very crowded,” said Ahmed El Naggar, the International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT)’s fundraising head. “The competition is all about who gets there first and who has more contacts.” El Naggar thinks that the clubs that think “out of the box” are the ones who get the sponsors, despite the fierce competition. The fundraising resolution’s components were discussed during a summit, organized by the Student Union (SU), from Oct. 27-28, which brought together the Clubs and Conferences Committee (CCC) and representatives from differ- ent clubs and conferences, including the Arab Youth Development Congress and ICIT. “The summit was an initiative by the SU to solve organizations’ problems,” said Seif Abou Zaid, SU pub- lic relations chairperson and the writer of the resolution. Abou Zaid said that after discussing the resolu- tion in the first meeting of the summit, he wrote all the clauses and presented them in the following meeting on Saturday. However, all the organizations present request- ed further clarification on some of the clauses, according to Abou Zaid. Ali Bouchellih, Entrepreneurs’ Society (ES) managing director of operations, said that they did- n’t sign the resolution because it said that student organizations must provide tracking sheets. According to the resolution, tracking sheets, “express the degree to which their [clubs] contract agreements with such sponsors were fulfilled.” “ES refused to sign the resolution until we [ES] have a clear defined job description of it [tracking sheet] and what exactly the penalties are that will be imposed on the organizations who don’t give spon- sors their benefits,” said Bouchellih. BY HANAA AHMED Caravan Editor See COUNCIL, 2 See SAAD, 4 See SPONSOR, 2

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Page 1: NEWS 2 The new voice-activated WebCT CARAVANdatacenter.aucegypt.edu/caravan/pdf/caravan_05_11_06.pdf · INSIDESCOOP The new voice-activated WebCTIs pink the new black? NEWS 2 4 Volume

INSIDE SCOOPIs pink the new black?The new voice-activated WebCT

4NEWS 2

caravan.aucegypt.eduVolume 86, Issue 8 Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005

T H E S T U D E N T- P R O D U C E D N E W S P A P E R O F T H E A M E R I C A N U N I V E R S I T Y I N C A I R OCARAVAN

Ethar Shalaby / THE CARAVAN

From left: Mohamed Ahmed, Sherry Arnold and Zizi Derbala give candy to Lidya Salib and MohamedBassem during a Halloween celebration that took place at the AUC Daycare Center last Monday.

Trick or Treat

Charismatic laughter rings. Her spiky silver boy-cut hair devilishly beckons you. Clearly, Leila Saad isno run-of-the-mill theater professor. Defying all ageconstraints, at 68 she still has a keen lust for life, some-thing that is obvious in all she does. And the best partis that her students love her.

Saad studied at AUC in the mid-60s and tookcourses in English literature and theater after transfer-ring here from London University. Officially, there wasno theater department at that time. Theater was onlyoffered as an elective, Saad said, but Bob Harper, hertheater professor, motivated her about acting. He“threw me on stage and got me interested in theater,”she said.

During her university life, theater productionswere strictly fun, but acting in AUC now is “so muchmore a professional concept than when I was here,”Saad said.

While Saad did not stay at AUC for long, she lefther mark with “Greedies.” When the Greek Campuswas first created in 1965, she opened a small cafeteriawith a few of her friends that sold homemade food anddesserts along with freshly-blended juices.

Shortly after, in 1966, Saad, a native of Cairo, leftfor the United States to complete her undergraduatedegree and graduate studies in theater and education atPortland State University. She also took theater cours-es at the University of Southern California.

In 1977, Saad began her 25 year career at BostonUniversity in Massachusetts where she was the facultyadvisor to the theater group and the assistant dean ofstudents, as well as a professor of acting and publicspeaking.

Saad was very attached to her parents and attrib-utes her “value and who [she is] today” to them. Sheretired and came back to Egypt four years ago to carefor her mother, who passed away two years ago at 90.“I spent two wonderful years with her,” Saad said.

In his memory, Saad adopted her father’s name asher middle name. “I’m very proud to be his daughter,”she said. Her father, Erian Saad, who passed away in1974, “taught [her] a lot of great values.” Erian, a pre-vious member of a popular political movement had anactive role in Egypt’s 1919 revolution.

While caring for her mother, Saad worked withMisr Language Schools, helping its administration withthe American diploma program, and with her son in hisconstruction materials company.

BY FOUAD HAMMOUDCaravan Reporter

‘Legendary Leila’lights up the stagein theater classes

The departments of business administration(BADM) and journalism and mass communication(JRMC) are currently seeking accreditation fromtheir respective international associations.

The BADM is seeking accreditation from theAssociation to Advance Collegiate Schools ofBusiness (AACSB) and the JRMC is seeking accred-itation from the Accrediting Council on Education inJournalism and Mass Communication (ACEJMC).

“Accreditation for schools is to further validatethe certificate,” said Rasha Abdullah, assistant pro-fessor of mass communication. “The accreditationcomes from an international body that agrees that we[AUC] meet certain international standards.”

The BADM’s self-evaluation report took fouryears to be completed.

“It’s not just a file or some things written onpaper,” said Ibrahim Hegazy, chairman of the man-agement department and associate professor of mar-keting. “We [the department] had to develop someactivities over the past four years in order to meetthe required standards.”

Hegazy said that the self-evaluation report wassent to AACSB last August. The BADM is expectinga visit from the AACSB team in March 2006 to eval-uate the department.

They will find out whether they were approvedor not in June 2006, said Hegazy.

“The reason we chose the AACSB accreditationbody is because it is the strongest,” said Hegazy. TheAACSB is the most credible accreditation bodybecause it bases its judgment fairly, without anyfinancial influences, he added.

The JRMC is currently working on its own self-evaluation report, which is to be sent to ACEJMCnext year.

According to Provost Tim Sullivan, one of therequirements for accreditation by the ACEJMC isfor the faculty members to hold a doctorate and havesignificant media experience.

Another requirement is including practical aswell as theoretical teachings in the university’s cur-riculum. “I think the Adham Center and the Caravanwill count positively for [the JRMC department],”said Sullivan.

However, achieving accreditation is no easy task.“Accreditation is not an easy process, [because]

we are pursuing excellence,” said Hussein Amin,chairman of the mass communication department.“Less than 100 [journalism] programs out of thou-sands are accredited in the US.”

“There are a lot of good journalism schools thatare not accredited,” said Sullivan.

According to the 2005 AUC catalog, “AUC isaccredited in the US by the Commission on HigherEducation of the Middle States Association ofColleges and Schools.” The last visit by a full accred-itation team took place in May 1998 as part of the re-accreditation review process. The next evaluationvisit is scheduled for the 2007-08 academic year.

Many AUC students agree that it is important toseek accreditation for the various schools anddepartments as well as for AUC as a whole.

“AUC is the Harvard of Egypt,” said DarahRateb, a business administration senior. “We are sup-posed to be competing on an international level.When I graduate, if I work in a multinational compa-ny and the company moves me to one of its branchesabroad, I’ll need my certificate to be accredited.”

“Accreditation would give me the advantage ofdoing my master’s abroad,” said Mahmoud Ahmed,a business administration sophomore.

BY SHEREEN EL GAZZARCaravan Reporter

JRMC, business departments seek accreditation

Student Council: OnlyAUCians may leadclubs and conferences

The student council has implemented new rulesfor non-AUCians who want to participate in univer-sity activities and student conferences to ensure thatall decision-makers in student activities are AUCstudents.

“Doing activities for students at AUC is our pri-ority,” said Aida Maged, the director of studentorganization activities. “We love to have partici-pants from outside AUC but not at the expense ofAUC students.”

The latest changes made to the 2004 PermanentConstitution of the General Assembly of the StudentBody, which sets the rules and regulations for stu-dents’ activities, ensure that at least 50 percent ofthe secretariats of any organization must be enrolledin AUC.

The amendments made to the constitution fur-ther clarify the exact roles that students outsideAUC can fill, said George Thabet, the StudentCouncil Chair. All high board members must beenrolled at AUC throughout their term.

“The number of all students not enrolled inAUC participating in an organization committeemust not exceed five percent,” say the new rules.

Anyone studying outside AUC is not allowed tohold a managerial position.

According to the Constitution, “High boardmembers … are defined as the president of theorganization as well as the heads and vice presidentsfor academic and organizational affairs. Also, treas-urers, secretaries, and organizational committeeheads fall within the same definition of a high boardmember.”

“AUC students must be the main executors ofany student activities. Student organizations areprohibited [from using] external assistance in plan-ning, management, fundraising, marketing or publi-cation designing,” according to the Constitution ofthe General Assembly.

Maged said that the decision was entirely deter-mined by the students.

“[Non-AUCians] don’t have a grasp of the rulesand regulations,” Maged said, adding that the Officeof Student Development (OSD) has no control overnon-AUCians’ actions.

BY HASSAN HASSANCaravan Reporter

SU hopes to standardize club benefit packages

In an effort to resolve fundraising problemsbetween clubs and conferences, representativesfrom campus organizations joined to propose a res-olution that would standardize fundraising regula-tions for all activities.

Many activity representatives complain aboutthe lack of coordination between organizations infundraising and getting sponsors.

“All the conferences and clubs go on fundrais-ing appointments in the same time of the year,” saidMohammed El Taweel, the International StudentLeadership Conference’s head of fundraising. Thisdecreases the chances of getting sponsors to signcontracts, he said.

“The scene is getting very crowded,” said Ahmed

El Naggar, the International Conference onInformation Technology (ICIT)’s fundraising head.“The competition is all about who gets there first andwho has more contacts.” El Naggar thinks that theclubs that think “out of the box” are the ones who getthe sponsors, despite the fierce competition.

The fundraising resolution’s components werediscussed during a summit, organized by theStudent Union (SU), from Oct. 27-28, whichbrought together the Clubs and ConferencesCommittee (CCC) and representatives from differ-ent clubs and conferences, including the Arab YouthDevelopment Congress and ICIT.

“The summit was an initiative by the SU to solveorganizations’ problems,” said Seif Abou Zaid, SU pub-lic relations chairperson and the writer of the resolution.

Abou Zaid said that after discussing the resolu-tion in the first meeting of the summit, he wrote all

the clauses and presented them in the followingmeeting on Saturday.

However, all the organizations present request-ed further clarification on some of the clauses,according to Abou Zaid.

Ali Bouchellih, Entrepreneurs’ Society (ES)managing director of operations, said that they did-n’t sign the resolution because it said that studentorganizations must provide tracking sheets.

According to the resolution, tracking sheets,“express the degree to which their [clubs] contractagreements with such sponsors were fulfilled.”

“ES refused to sign the resolution until we [ES]have a clear defined job description of it [trackingsheet] and what exactly the penalties are that will beimposed on the organizations who don’t give spon-sors their benefits,” said Bouchellih.

BY HANAA AHMEDCaravan Editor

See COUNCIL, 2

See SAAD, 4

See SPONSOR, 2

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Heba El-Bidewy / THE CARAVAN

THRIFTY THREADS: The Resala Club sells and donates clothes to the poor in Oct. 28 and 29 in Mohandiseen. Thegroup was able to raise LE 2,500 for charitable causes.

2 November 6, 2005

On The Wire

The Egyptian parliament, also known as the People’sAssembly (Maglis-il-Sha’b), is made up of 454 members,of whom 444 are elected by majority vote in 222 two-

member electoral districts, and the remaining 10 are appointed bythe president. From every district, there is one representative ofpeople with higher educations (fe’aat) and one for the ‘uneducat-ed people’ (‘omal) in parliament.

The Egyptian parliament is dominated by representativesfrom the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), leaving theopposition parties with weak representation. The upcoming 2005parliamentary elections show an increase in the number of alliedopposition parties running in an attempt to decrease the NDP’srepresentation. Four political groups are competing in the elec-tions: the NDP; the National Front, composed of 11 oppositionparties; the Muslim Brotherhood and the Ghad Party.

The first round of elections will begin on Nov. 9.

Do you think the new

parliamentary elections will be fair?

YES NO16% 84%

“The Egyptian politicalsystem will never befair, simply becausethis is how things go inEgypt.”

-Sanaa El Noamany,JRMC junior

“We are going througha new democraticphase after the newpresidential elections,so I think there is achance that the newparliamentary elec-tions could be fair.”

-Dalia El Tayeby, BADM sophomore

“There is no publicawareness.”

-Mahmoud El Shishiny,POLS senior

“It will never be fair,since we’ve been liv-ing in an illusion for25 years. Why shouldthis year be any differ-ent?”

-Shahira Zaki,Undeclared sophomore

The changes in the rules are a reaction to com-plaints made by AUC students at the beginning of thesemester, said Thabet. The students who complainedsaid that students outside of AUC do not have aresponsibility towards the university and don’t careabout AUC’s image, he added.

“All the activities receive funding from the uni-versity and the main concern should be benefiting[students at AUC],” said Thabet. “However there areorganizations that would benefit from having non-AUC students, and that’s why the limit is 50 percentfor delegates [in conferences].”

According to Maged, some exceptions will bemade for certain clubs that benefit from non-AUCians’ experiences.

“Some [conferences and activities] need moreoutside participation, such as the Model EgyptianParliament (MEP) and Model Arab League. We’reusually a little more flexible so that students can getmore ideas from the public,” she said.

Moustafa Moharram, MEP president and a politi-cal science senior, said that MEP has a problem get-ting AUCians to join the conferences. He said that herecruits non-AUCians because AUC students haveeither minimal political awareness or they choose to

concentrate more on their studies.For clubs who break the rules, the Student

Judicial Board (SJB) will determine what actions willbe taken.

The SJB will apply whatever measures arerequired to deal with the situation, Thabet said.

According to Maged, the OSD expects a com-plete list of the people taking part in the conferencewithin a reasonable time period after the beginning ofthe conference. This time period, though, varies fromone club to the other, depending on whether or notthey are still recruiting members.

“The club would have to have approval and havea special and reasonable reason to allow more dele-gates from outside,” she said.

All conferences are open to students outside ofAUC, but the involvement of students from other uni-versities differs from one conference to another.

For example, the International Conference onInformation Technology (ICIT) has 94 non-AUC stu-dents and only 74 AUCians, according to Karim ElNagdy, the media center head.

The opposite seems to be the case for conferencessuch as the Cairo Model United Nations (CIMUN).

“We actually go out of our way to try to get stu-dents from other universities to join,” said YasmineEl-Rifae, director of the security council of MUN.

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COUNCIL: New rules say 50 percent ofconference delegates must be from AUC

However, Bouchellih said that the resolution isa good idea because it helps bridge the gap betweenthe Office of Student Development (OSD) and stu-dent organizations.

Students have frequently had problems withunderstanding which companies they can contactfor sponsorship because the university already hasagreements with some that they cannot re-approach.

Clause eight of the resolution “calls upon theOSD to be more precise in determining the spon-sors’ list that student organizations are not allowedto approach.”

George Thabet, a member in the AccountingLink club who attended the second meeting, saidthat he didn’t agree with many of the clauses in theresolution, including clause six, which says that theStudent Judicial Board (SJB) will supervise all con-tracts between sponsors and clubs.

“The SJB are not qualified for this job becausetheir authority is limited only to on campus [hap-penings],” said Thabet.

“It [the resolution] was a draft and we [SU] did-n’t finalize it yet,” said Abou Zaid.

Abou Zaid added that there would be anothermeeting after the Eid Al Fitr break to discuss all theclauses that need clarification and to reach a mutu-al agreement between all clubs and organizations.

But some participants in the summit saw thediscussions and resulting resolution as an effectivesolution to their problems.

To Bassem Abou El Nasr, CCC chairperson, themeeting was fruitful for all the attendants and theresolutions that were declared were useful.

“It was a great opportunity for the student lead-ers on campus to sit together and discuss their inter-nal and external problems and to initiate furthercooperation between their organizations,” saidWaleed Abdelrahman, ES Human ResourcesCoordinator.

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SPONSOR: Each club or conferencewould offer same benefits to sponsor

In an effort to support civicengagement and strengthen civilsociety, AUC recently launchedthe Gerhart Center forPhilanthropy and Civic Engag-ement on Sunday, Oct. 30.

The center is designed to be acatalyst for Arab initiatives, par-ticularly those that foster the cre-ation and maintenance of finan-cial resources that will aid inArab public endeavors.

“To promote enhanced phil-anthropic giving in the Arabregion, AUC is committed toassisting in efforts to institution-alize and professionalize whatare still largely gestures of indi-vidual generosity,” according tothe center’s information booklet.

Barbara Ibrahim, senior advi-

sor for philanthropy and civicengagement at AUC, said that theArab world has few grant-makingorganizations that can depend onlocal funding. She added thatmany service organizationsdepend on foreign funding fortheir projects.

“People feel uncomfortablethat their own society is not sup-porting the work that they wantto do. We want to augment exter-nal funding with internal Arab-generated funding for develop-ment, social justice and charity,”said Ibrahim.

Ibrahim said that anothergoal of the center is to expandservice-learning courses at AUC.In these courses, learning takesplace outside the classroom andlibrary, in “a poor community,children’s hospital—somehow inthe real world.”

Ibrahim said that AUC is inneed of more courses of thisnature.

The Gerhart center wasnamed after former AUCPresident John Gerhart, whoadvocated voluntary work andencouraged community serviceactivities.

According to Ibrahim, theidea of the center is not new.When Gerhart arrived to AUC in1998, he was thinking about con-solidating many different activi-ties at AUC that include studentvolunteering in clubs, service-learning courses and intellectualinterests of some faculty mem-bers in looking at civil society.

“He thought of bringing allthese together in a center that cando the work more systematicallyand with more focus,” saidIbrahim.

BY ETHAR SHALABYCaravan Editor

New center promotes morephilanthropy in Arab world

AUC’s community serviceorganization, Resala Club, raisedLE 2,500 to help the disadvan-taged children of poor districts inCairo and their families, saidAmira Maamoun, club presidenton Oct. 29.

The two-day bazaar, wherethe club sold and donated clothesto the poor, was held on Oct. 28 -29 in Markaz Awlad Allam inMohandiseen.

“I think that it was a success.It was [my] first time and if I’mpresident next year, I will defi-nitely repeat this experience,”said Maamoun.

From 10:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.on both days, the bazaar wasfilled with people. Children hadthe chance to select the clothesthey wanted while their parentsbargained and paid for the chosenitems.

The reason behind this eventwas to try to give these under-privileged groups (the MarkazAwlad Allam children) thechance to “buy and choose” theirown clothes, said Maamoun. “Wesold each piece of clothing in therange of LE 1 to LE 5.”

The idea for this event camefrom the parent organization, theResala NGO, which is the regularsponsor of this bazaar.

Maamoun believed thatinstead of donating and givingout the clothes, they wouldorganize the bazaar. Although theclothes were originally donatedto the club, Maamoun said theydecided to sell the items. Theprofit will then be invested intobuying new clothes and donatingthem.

“We tried to clarify that theclothes would be sold at theseprices,” said Maamoun, “Theprofit will go to buying newclothes from a certain factory andwe will pass it out.”

A deal was cut with a partic-ular factory in order to get thecheapest prices.

The Resala Club is one of themany charity organizations with-in AUC but they have uniquegoals and techniques to achievethem. They aim at enhancing thelives of underprivileged groupsthrough various developmentprojects in places like orphanagesand districts such as El Hagara, aneighborhood behind Maadi, andShobak, an hour from Helwan.

The club donated money,blankets and clothes to these twoareas in Cairo. In Shobak, howev-er, the club used a new techniqueto give them the means and theskills to depend on themselves.

Last semester, for example,they organized the ‘cow cam-paign’ where the club donated acow to seven orphan siblings sothey can live off the benefits ofmilking it. The club is hoping toundertake a similar project thissemester.

BY HEBA EL-BIDEWYCaravan Reporter

Resala sells old clothes, raises LE 2,500 for poor

Hard news, soft copy.caravan.aucegypt.edu

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A new voice for WebCTAfter requests from various departments in AUC,

the Academic Computing Services (ACS) haslaunched a voice-activated WebCT system with fourdifferent tools to facilitate communications betweenstudents and faculty members.

ACS purchased the software from HorizonWimba Voice Tool’s new WebCT Power LinkProgram, which enables both faculty and students toaccess four different voice technologies, includingVoice Board, Voice Email, Voice Recorder and VoiceDirect.

The four different tools are integrated inside thecurrent WebCT system, said Marwa Mansour, senioranalyst at ACS. Students cannot access the toolsunless the faculty members add them into the stu-dents’ course on WebCT, she added.

“All files accessed through Horizon WimbaVoice Tools are small in size and can be easily down-loaded on students’ personal computers, in additionto the very high quality of sound [they offer],” saidMansour

Using a head-set and a sensitive microphone, stu-dents and faculty members could use the Voice

Board, a discussion board with voice messages thatcan be recorded and accessed later by students.

Voice e-mail is the standard e-mail text with anadditional vocal element. Students and faculty mem-bers can send external and internal e-mails with bothtext and voice messages. Before sending the text mes-sage, students can push the record button where theycan record a voice message and send it to the recipient.

The voice recorder, the third tool, is a recordedannouncement or a reminder by professors, which issent to students. Voice Direct is an immediate livevoice chat.

“Horizon Wimba Voice Tools allow you to give apersonal and human touch to online courses. Theypromote vocal instruction, collaboration, training andassessment in an online learning environment,” saidMona Kaddah, ACS director.

In addition to these benefits, instructors also havevoice-activated commands with options allowingthem to create and manage their tools. These toolsvary from e-mailing students and other faculty mem-bers to accessing grades and assignment icons.

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BY JENNIFER ARAFATCaravan Reporter

UN director awards three students for classroom work

The AUC security office has recently installednew surveillance cameras and implemented a newphoto ID system for students passing through thecampus gates. According to General Ashraf Kamel,head of security, the university has merely replacedthe old cameras with new ones. “The old ones wereoutdated and analog, and they weren’t workingproperly,” he said.

The security office evaluates its security meas-ures frequently and tries to update them from timeto time, he said.

Signs have been put up at AUC gates requestingthat students show their AUC photo identification.Most gates now have two lanes, one of which is anexpress lane for students who are in a hurry andhave their ID cards ready.

“We are trying to make things easier for stu-dents, especially so that they won’t have to waste a

lot of time passing through the gates when they arelate to class,” said Kamel.

Still, passing through gates is hectic. “The sys-tem is new and students need time to adapt to it,”said Kamel, adding that the problem is mostly withEgyptian and Arab students. “Foreigners adapt wellto the rules while we [Egyptians] always try to bar-gain with the system,” he said.

Some students claimed they were not aware ofthe purpose of the express lane and are merely con-fused by the signs. Lina Ali, a political science sen-ior, said she noticed the signs but did not see anyimprovement. “The gates are still as crowded asbefore,” she said.

The upcoming parliamentary elections willresult in stricter security measures, with AUC beinga center for political action and demonstrations.

“We are always following up with the Ministryof Interior,” said Kamel, adding that the universitywill be taking precautions in the upcoming “intensepolitical period.”

BY OMNEYA OSMANCaravan Reporter

AUC installs new cameras,beefs up security at gates

The activities and conferencesat AUC are usually fairly standardaffairs where delegates learnsomething about any given topic,debate it and come out with a fewgood friends.

But the International Con-ference on Information Tech-nology (ICIT) has taken this a stepforward to give students an evenmore in-depth approach to theworld of information technologyand how it relates to variousaspects of life.

ICIT President Bassem AbouEl Nasr, an electronics engineer-ing senior, “wants to take theconference to the next level andincrease hands-on experience andinteractivity.”

ICIT offers five differentworkshops, all of which stress theinfiltration of information technol-ogy into every possible field.

The workshops are there toprovide knowledge and hands-onexperience with various forms oftechnology in relation to everydayconcerns and issues.

The workshops are diverseand offer the opportunity of aneclectic mix: Art Connection (ITand art), Weapons Against Reality(IT and the military), E-Fence (ITsecurity), Empower (IT and busi-ness) and finally, Juniors

Revolution (a junior workshop). The conference itself is

evolving, with elements of inter-activity and more learning addedto the program. “There are newconcepts in the content itself,”said Abou El Nasr. “People havesome sort of goal to worktowards at the end of the confer-ence, and this goal varies fromworkshop to workshop.”

For example, the goal of theArt Connection workshop is toproduce a creative work of artusing various tools of informationtechnology. The workshop isdivided into three parts, each ofwhich teaches a specific skill.

The first part of the workshopis filmmaking, where studentslearn to use the Pinnacle Studioprogram for film editing. The sec-ond deals mainly with the arts ofanimation, where students areinstructed in the different uses ofanimation programs such as Flash.Finally, the graphic design elementis introduced, where students areinstructed in the intricacies ofAdobe Photoshop. All three partsinclude skills that most peoplewouldn’t learn to use in any oftheir regular AUC courses.

Dina Osman, a businessadministration senior and one ofthe conference directors, said thatstudents not only learn the specificuses of each program, but also howto get them to work all together in

one project. The skills learned throughout

the conference are put to use in itsfinal days, starting Nov. 8.According to Osman, these confer-ence days will be spent in the cre-ation of “design projects that inte-grate the different programstogether.”

Yusra El Imam, an economicssenior and one of the participants,said she values the opportunity tolearn a lot about these programsin an interesting and enjoyablecontext.

“I’ve learned quite a lot. Iprobably wouldn’t have learnedthis anywhere else as it’s so farfrom anything covered in mymajor,” said El Imam.

Other students also found thatthey could learn to expand onskills valuable to their majors. “Iknow some of the skills, but Ithought the conference would be afun way to learn more [that could]help me in my major,” said MahaMakled, a mass communicationssenior.

ICIT integrates interactivityand creativity and is available toanyone with an interest in IT.

“[ICIT] encourages differenttypes of majors to join,” saidAbou El Nasr. “[Diverse majorsare necessary] in order to havedifferent ways of thinking, whichmake the workshops more inter-esting and lively.”

BY HASSAN HASSANCaravan Reporter

ICIT aims to connect technology,life through interactive workshops

Hassan Hassan / THE CARAVAN

STATE OF THE ART: Heba Nawara and Joseph El-Sobky lead workshops for the International Conference onInformation Technology which helps students to better integrate technology into their lives.

Omneya Osman / THE CARAVAN

Two children wear signs asking where their father is during a protest that took place on the morn-ing of Oct. 26 near the Ministry of Interior. The protesters were asking for the release of familymembers who were allegedly imprisoned by the Egyptian government for political reasons.

CALLING FOR JUSTICE

In order to motivate her stu-dents and introduce them to prac-tical politics, political scienceprofessor Nihal Fahmy is work-ing with international organiza-tions to add a professional com-ponent to her students’ learningexperience.

Last June, she collaboratedwith the United NationsInternational Center (UNIC),which she intends to continueworking with in the future, inaddition to other UN organiza-tions like the United NationsChildren’s Fund and the UnitedNations Development Program.

According to Nihal, UNICDirector Dysan Dourani gave apresentation to her seminar oninternational organizations lastspring, and promised the topthree students a UNIC certificatefor the course.

The course syllabus focuses

on current UN issues, such asdevelopment, human rights andsecurity. The issues are tackledfrom an objective perspective,avoiding bias towards certaincountries.

She explained Dourani wasmainly attracted to the coursebecause it offered discussions onthe UN’s internal problems.“When I developed the syllabus,I checked other courses offeredby international organizationsand [referred to] the UN’s aca-demic council,” said Nihal.

The certificates were present-ed by UN Undersecretary GeneralShashi Tharoor to the professorand her three highest-ranking stu-dents, Chotika Suwanwattana,Sarah El Kazaz and Amr Fahmyon June 30.

According to the three stu-dents, the award was an incentivefor them to apply themselves andwork harder in the course. Theyagreed that although achieving ahigh grade and learning the mate-rial were their main concerns, the

certificate was an added bonus.“The award, for me, is some-

thing tangible acknowledging myperformance, especially [since] itis from the UN,” saidSuwanwattana, a political sciencegraduate.

“The award means that thecourse was well-recognized bythe UNIC. I am glad there wascoordination between the facultyand the UN,” said El Kazaz, apolitical science senior.

Amr, a political science grad-uate, said that the certificatewould be added to his resume andthat it would hopefully be usefulif he chose to pursue a career inthe UN.

Nihal regrets not being ableto collaborate with UNIC for hercurrent students. “Dourani leftthe [UNIC]. By the time theybring someone to replace him,the semester might be over,” shesaid. “[However], I do intend toinvite the new director of UNIConce he arrives in Cairo,” sheadded.

BY SHEREEN EL GAZZARCaravan Reporter

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Campus magazine and the EuroDeli restaurant in Zamalek haveteamed up to bring to Cairo yetanother café. Situated in a secludedand quiet area of Degla, Maadi,Campus Euro Deli is the idealescape, offering a hip environmentwith good food in a comfortablelounge.

The café is separated into twoareas. The outside area is furnishedwith beanbags and picnic tables, anoriginal alternative to the usualtables and chairs. The makeshiftpatio is perfect for breakfast plansand is also ideal any time of the dayto enjoy the outdoors.

The interior of the café is aneclectic mixture of relaxation andstyle, with comfortable woodenchairs and beanbags. The ceiling,which is painted with orange, pinkand blue circles and ovals, addsbrightness to the room. The decoralso includes a blackboard, which isadorned with colored chalk sketch-es and contributes to a fun class-room theme. The restaurant usesspace to its advantage, allowing suf-

ficient areas between the tables toavoid overcrowding.

Campus Euro Deli is not only atrendy place but also one that isintellectually stimulating. Themusic is mostly slow and chill-out,but doesn’t drown out conversation.A wide selection of books and mag-azines are also available to cater tovarious tastes.

The café menu is the same asthat of the Zamalek branch, whichis well-known for its quality andflavor. For breakfast fans, theNutella bagels are a must. The frieswith pesto mayonnaise sauce, aEuro Deli specialty, are probablythe best you’ll have in Egypt. Thesilver chicken sub is also quite goodand if you’re in the mood fordessert, the Snickers cheesecake isas good as it sounds.

One of the strong points of boththe Euro Deli restaurant and café isthat there is bound to be somethingon the menu that sounds appealing.

Campus Euro Deli has beenopen for almost a month, and hasestablished itself as the perfect placeto relax and unwind.232 Street, Off 213 Degla, Maadi(Behind CAC) - Tel: 0103529214

Inside Scoop4 November 6, 2005

Q & AQUESTION:

Why do you or don’tyou plan to vote in

the upcoming parliamentary

elections?

“I don’t plan to votebecause I won’t votefor someone who’s a

soccer player.”

- Abdulrahman Farghaly, MENG senior

“I don’t plan to votebecause it will make

no difference.”

- Adham Zidan, CS sophomore

“I didn’t know thatthere were

parliamentary elections.”

- Marwan Mahrous, MENG senior

“It would make nochange. They are justdeceiving people byconvincing them thatthis is democracy.”

- Samira Adel, JRMC freshman

‘Pure and delicious’:Campus and Euro Deli launch joint venture in Maadi

At that point, former chair of the Performing andVisual Arts department Frank Bradley tried to involveSaad with AUC, encouraging her to teach here.

Although Saad has performed professionally andstill acts and directs, she said that she is “very passion-ate about teaching.” She was the first female theaterdirector in Egypt, directing in Masrah El Talee’a(Theater of Talee’a) in 1970.

Saad sees teaching as “a passion, not a job.”Hearing students’ enthusiasm about her teaching, shesaid, “I’m glad it’s contagious ... I give it my all, Iexpect them to give me their all and so far they havebeen.”

Saad, who teaches acting fornon-majors (THTR 215), is some-what untraditional in her teachingmethods. Using small exercises likewriting diaries and answering ques-tions along the lines of “what colorare you?” and “what fruit are you?”are geared to make students under-stand themselves better. She alsoencourages them to think out of thebox – to try and figure out whatmakes them laugh, saddens or angersthem.

Told to call her by her first name,Leila creates a casual atmosphere inthe classroom, said mass communi-cation senior Esraa Samaha. Saadsays that she builds her classes onfeedback and that she feels that it iscritical to “build a safe environmentso people feel comfortable to givefeedback.”

Evaluating her students based onhow much they invest in class, Saadbelieves that students should be “tak-ing risks, going out on a limb, fallingflat and getting up again,” to betterlearn theater.

Saad herself is a risk-taker. Backin 1958, her friends dared her to enterthe Miss Egypt competition as theyhung out one day at El GeziraSporting Club. To her surprise, andeveryone else’s, Saad won. But Saadnever had the chance to climb thecontest ladder and enter the MissWorld pageant. Right after hercrowning, Nasser’s governmentbanned the contest as it was a “friv-

olous concept to him,” Saad said.Saad’s teaching technique is comfortable, yet effec-

tive, according to her students.“She teaches you things without forcing you to do

it. And implicitly pushes you to do things until you doit on your own,” said Dina El Adly, a mass communica-tion senior.

Laila Hosni, a sociology sophomore, said thatSaad’s behavior is infectious. She’s “hyper in a goodway,” causing them [the students] to “do weird things”as well.

Although she is happy to be back in Egypt, Saadhates Cairo’s traffic, and tries to escape it by spendingher weekends in Agami, near Alexandria.

BY PASSAND EL HAMMAMICaravan Reporter

Fouad Hammoud / THE CARAVAN

LOVE OF THE STAGE: From student to professor, Leila Saad has made sig-nificant contributiions to AUC’s theatre department.

Passand El Hammami / THE CARAVAN

MUNCHING IN MAADI: The interior of the new Campus Euro Deli in Maadi. Campus magazine helped the popularrestaurant launch a hip addition to its list of Cairo franchises.

New café combines hip environment with familiar menu

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The new pinkIs pink slowly becoming the

next black? Is it slowly settling intothe category of iconic colors offashion and style in a man’s world?

As style rules are constantlybeing reformed and implemented,new trends such as men wearingpink are becoming the norm. Menand women’s clothing are comingtogether as ready-to-wear lines forboth sexes are moving hand-in-hand. Now you see more menexperiment with their clothing interms of color and material. Men’sclothing stores are now stockedwith bold colors, from pinks to pur-ples.

While some Egyptian men arereluctant to be as experimental withtheir attire, certain segments of thesociety, including the men at AUC,are more open-minded and mayperceive pink, formerly reserved forgirls, as a trendy color.

Student opinions differ on theemerging fad. “I believe that guyswho wear pink are sexually secure,”said Hasnaa Gemei, a businessadministration senior.

“ A

guy who wears pink is a guy withguts,” Gemei said.

Nadin Shilbaya, a journalismand mass communication junior,said, “Girls are pretty in pink. Guysare preppy in pink.”

“If you’re able to pull it off,then why not,” said a pink-wearingbusiness administration seniorMohamed Nada.

While some students clearlysee the craze as the ‘in’ thing, somefind the concept of a guy in pinkconfusing and unnatural.

“It leaves less for us to associ-ate with girls,” said business admin-istration senior Hani Abdel Aziz.

Lubna Al Nahed, a psychologyjunior, said that while pink couldlook ‘hot’ on some guys, “it couldlook really bad on guys who don’tknow what they’re doing and justcan’t pull it off.”

“It’s like a pathetic cry out forattention,” said Amin Moftah, abusiness administration senior whobelieves that there is something‘wrong’ with a guy who wears pink.

But at the end of the day, willpink be the everlasting exotic color?

Salua Mahmoud, an English lit-erature senior and editor in chief ofthe Entrepreneurs’ Society’s news-paper, The Lead, thinks that “guyswho wear pink shirts are trying to

be fashion-forward, but are onlyfollowing what might be ashort-lived trend.”

Guys can find pink cloth-ing, ranging fom t-shirts tosweaters at the followinglocations:

- QuicksilverPink t-shirts (LE 150 - LE

300)Mohandiseen: Tel. # -

3023073

- MobacoPink polos (LE 60-LE 90)Heliopolis: Tel. # - 4042655

- TimberlandPink Sweaters (LE 200)Maadi: Tel. # - 5202170

BY PASSAND EL HAMMAMICaravan Reporter

SAAD: Teaching is ‘a passion, not a job’

Illustration by Hassan Hassan / THE CARAVAN

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Solutions to the word search and crossword puzzle are posted on the Caravan website.

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Op-Ed

The summit of student leaders from clubs, conferences and the SUlast week was meant to help campus organizations solve some of theirproblems. The result of the meeting was a resolution designed to easecompetition over sponsors from outside the university by standardiz-ing the benefit package these groups can offer to sponsors.

The idea received mixed reactions from club leaders, as somewould benefit from the potential change more than others.

Competition for outside funding has become increasingly fiercesince the university began shortening the list of potential sponsors.The logic behind this was that sponsors who are already contributingto the new campus should not be bothered for even more donations.While there is some merit to this reasoning, the decision made clubfundraising significantly more difficult.

Now, instead of clubs and conferences creating their own benefitpackages to present to sponsors, the SU may impose the same benefitpackage on everyone. This will ultimately boost some groups’ capabil-ities to raise mone, while severely depleting the fundraising capabili-ties of others.

If clubs and conferences all have the same benefit packages tooffer sponsors, then what incentive do sponsors have to pick one groupover another to fund? Most likely, the answer will lie in who reachesa sponsor first, eliminating any competitive advantage in the sponsorsystem.

Thus, in an effort to level the playing field and reduce competitionbetween clubs, the SU has merely shifted the competitive nature ofgetting sponsors from one of “who can offer the most for a sponsors’money,” to “who can run the fastest.”

We hope that the SU will reconsider this plan, as every club orconference on campus should have the opportunity to make a strongcase for sponsorship based on what they have to offer.

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TheVoice6 November 6, 2005

Shareen asks:Do women have higher expectations than men?

SHAREEN NASR-EL-DINEnglish Features Editor

All AUCians do is complain.We constantly nag and whine thatprofessors don’t teach us any-thing. And when we find profes-sors who do teach, we complainthat they give us too much workor that they’re not fair.

The best part, though, is thatyou have people who complainand bad-mouth professors fortheir teaching methods and saythat the standards at AUC havegone down hill over the pastyears. It’s these same people,though, who go looking for theprofessor that will give an easy A, or who doesn’t assign much work, orone who doesn’t care too much about attendance. Towards the end ofevery semester when it’s time for us to register for classes for the follow-ing semester, students will crowd around to decide who’s the most laid-back professor, or the easiest grader, or the one who doesn’t change hisexams from previous semesters.

I signed up with a professor a year ago who I heard was awful.Students said that she was a strict grader and that she would make us do alot of work. I had no other option and this was the only section of the coursethat fit into my schedule, so I reluctantly signed up the course. Believe it ornot, this class was at 8 a.m. I woke up every single day, eager to go to classand barely missed any. This professor was probably the toughest there was,but she was also the best. She made sure we were never given any free time.After a semester of getting up at 6:30 a.m. and an assignment due everyweek, I came to realize that after all my years spent at AUC, this one classhad taught me more than any of my other classes put together. I took thehard way and got the grade I deserved.

We’ve all stopped looking for the quality of education and insteadfocused more on what our GPA looks like with all those A’s. I’m sorry tosay that we’ve stopped learning and have become a book-smart society. Asociety ‘hafez mish fahem’ (that memorizes but doesn’t understand).

University has no longer become a place for us to expand our horizons,but a place where people come to hang out and show off the latest trends.

We’ve been taught as a society that we should take the easy way outbecause that’s the only way you can actually get anything done in this coun-try. So why can’t we put this notion to the test? Take the hard way out.Sign up with a professor who will actually make you think, and not some-one who makes you hit the snooze button for a semester.

YASMEEN EL MALLAHEnglish News Editor

So there I was, flipping throughthe channels, watching a documen-tary on spontaneous combustion,when it hit me.

I was on fire with all thethoughts that were burning mymind, so naturally, to cool myselfoff, I phoned one of my chillpals. Rather ironically, mythoughts centered on high expec-tations. Do women in generalhave higher expectations thanmen do?

Based on the answers that Ireceived from several sizzlingladies, many of them hike up the bar and expect people to soar over it.But, unfortunately, high expectations are a bad thing in a world liketoday, a world that is filled with constant let-downs. Now it seems thatit’s wrong to want to fly over everyone else.

The more confusing part is the question of whether the problem is thatpeople have high expectations, or that everyone else’s are just too low.Personally, I don’t believe people are truly giving everything they have.They are just being lazy.

The ironic thing is that with high expectations, expecting a low is aguaranteed high, but when expecting a high, there’s huge potential for a low.Expectations are a way of saying that we have faith in people. People whohave more confidence in others simply end up being labeled as “too pickyand analytical.”

What I want to know is: who sets the standard? It really is difficult tojudge when expectations cross the line and surpass the norm. Are we reallyexpecting what we should be, or are we pushing it? It seems that peoplewith high expectations are doomed to face a life filled with disappointment.And for those of us who have high expectations, it feels like there is no drugfor the low that we end up feeling when someone or something doesn’tmeasure up.

The not-so-hot thing is that I see people (including myself) stressingover high expectations all the time. Which left me wondering if there is asolution to having high expectations. Can people train themselves to lowerthe bar? And by lowering the bar, are we lowering who we truly are?

Maybe the solution for such a hot topic is to just chill. And that wasmy discovery, courtesy of the Discovery Channel.

Happy Hour:Take the hard way out It seems that a central requirement for any mass communications

student is to be able to conduct interviews. Interviewing completestrangers is one of the most degrading and humbling experiences acollege student can have. I’ve had to modestly ask, coax, beg and paypeople to get them to do an interview with me. So when given anassignment to interview AUC students, I thought that would be a walkthrough the park for me … how mistaken I was. For the sake of objec-tivity I decided to interview students who were not my friends, in hopethat they’d provide me with some interesting insights. I cannot expresshow disappointed I was with the students I interviewed. The studentswere cocky, unresponsive, unfriendly and gave me no information tomake it worth my trouble.

If you don’t want to be interviewed, then just say NO. Politelydecline maybe with a smile on your face and, “I’m sorry I’m busyright now,” or something along those lines. Students should under-stand that interviewers aren’t simply asking them questions for the funof it. It’s an assignment and a course requirement. Don’t get too cocky- because you might find yourself in the exact same situation in afuture course.

So the next time someone asks you to answer a few questions,either politely decline or try to be as useful as possible during the fiveminutes of the interview.

-Nevine KarimJRMC senior

LETTERS TO THE EDITORIf you do not want to be interviewed, just say no

The Caravan article, ‘Start Packing: New Campus Well Underway,’(Oct. 2) made it clear that the university is far progressed in its plans tomove all undergraduate activities to New Cairo in the fall of 2007.Assuming that there are sound justifications to give up a prime locationin the heart of Egypt’s capital, I think the students deserve a furtherexplanation: how does the university plan to continue to connect itsstudents with the realities of Egyptian society?

As it stands right now, AUC is a rather isolated place, and movingout of the city will only expand the bubble around it. No longer willpolitical reminders like the People’s Assembly stand next door, and nolonger will students be confronted with the social realities of Egypt inthe form of Cairo’s street-children and panhandlers. Practically speak-ing, with a campus on the ring road, it will also be much harder toattend meetings, plays and lectures held downtown.

This is a significant issue, not only for international students –although many of us chose AUC because of its connection to the city -but also for Egyptian nationals as well. How is the university going toensure that, as its physical environment becomes less interesting andless stimulating, the intellectual environment doesn’t take the samecourse? Are more students going to be given scholarships and finan-cial aid - making the university a more diverse place socially and eco-nomically? Could national and international newspapers perhaps bedistributed to the students free of charge, as is done in most universi-ties in the US? The move out of the city shows that the university hassubstantial resources at its disposal, and fortunately it will only take asmall fraction of these resources to address some of the issues connect-ed with this flight from the city.

-William RitchieEconomics junior

Study abroad from Yale University

New campus location lacks culture, reality

It is my opinion that the Egyptian government is simply using afacade of gradual democratization to appease any underlying discontentand that the government will not deliberately give up any of its power. Itis my belief that political change will not come to Egypt without either avast public demonstration of dissatisfaction, a larger freedom of thepress, a fall of military support for the government, or strong foreign eco-nomic, political or military pressures.

Rather than critique, I wish to pose a question to the editors of theCaravan and to the AUC student body as a whole: Why is there an appar-ent lack of direct political critique in this student paper?

I candidly admit that, as a study-abroad student, many handicapsobstruct me from making an objective critical analysis of the paper’scontent. I sadly can only read the English content. I have no knowledgeof past and alternate publications. I am not aware of the limits to thepaper’s freedom of press and I am not familiar with the exact goals of thepaper.

It would be my educated guess that the main objective of theCaravan would be to cover campus news first, and then local and nation-al information. Nevertheless, it is my opinion that the paper of one of thefew institutions in Egypt that has a decent amount of liberty to critiquethe government, should use this freedom to its utmost limits, at the leastbecause others cannot.

I reviewed the paper’s publication since last September and I foundthat only one article and one to two editorials per issue covered recentelections and the affairs of various political parties. Other subjects dis-cussed varied from male-female relationships, corndog stands to com-plaints about satirical cartoons, and the number of guests that graduatescan invite.

With all the due respect a guest in a foreign country should have, Isuggest that the students who disagree with Egypt’s current level ofdemocracy voice their opinions in this paper as boisterously as they doin the two political science classes that I am attending, and that thosewho think otherwise do the same.

Maybe the Caravan is not the proper site for political dialogue anddebate, but I humbly propose that it temporarily become such a venueuntil alternate ones open in other universities.

-Olivier LewisInternational relations junior

Study abroad from Lehigh University

Caravan should promote more political dialogue

To contact the Caravan, call 797-6743 or come by the newsroom (SS 023).

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