Campus Caravan, Vol. 31, No. 4

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VOLUME XXXI, No. 4
ilC/C STUDENT PUBLICATION
I'Kin.VY, NOVIOMHICK 4, 1955
UNIVERSITY APPOINTS COMMITTEES FOR SELF-STUDY
HoUenbach Announces Available Scholarships
Opporunities for graduate work in the US and scholarships for further studies are l.eing given special consideration by Lean HoUenbach this year.
Dean Hoi enbach met the .'■tu-dents who are Interested in .®cholar.ships last Wednesday after Assembly and talked to them as to the procedure fol--'owed in applying for scholarship and the different chances offered by some organisations and colleges. Dean HoUenbach also announced that his office will be ready to give information and notices concerning scholarships to those who are Interested.
The Dean also announced the news that he had already secured two scholarships in Bryn Mawr College and three fellowship.'! at "Michigan university. Any student interested in those particular places has his opportunity ready-made.
The schoarships at Bryn Mawr are of doll. 1550 each
Staff 7s Students
A sports week between staff and students will inaugurate the sports season on the Campus. Staff members wi.l meet a se’ection of the students teams in basketball, voUeyball, tennis and ping-pong.
covering expenses for tuition, loom and board. Candidates should have had three or four years of university work and a good knowledge of the Engli.sh Language. (Brynn Mawr College is for women exclusively)
Through the generosity of the Saudi Arabian Oil Industry, three fellowships of doll. 1660 each are offered to students from the Near Eastern Countries, at Michigan University. The students wiU have to specialise in graduate study of the Near East.
These scholarships are offered for the coming 56-57 academic year.
Staff And Students Go To Sedra
The Shell Co. is inviting next Saturday a group of 13 teachers and 2 students for a picnic on the oi field at Suez and Sedra.
The group is composed of Mr. McLaine, Dean HoUenbach Dr. Province and a group of teachers. The trip will start at 6 a.m. and they will visit the oilfield and the refinery. The return is scheduled for 8 pm.
Oil Company Asks For AUC Graduates
An Important oil company has contacted Mr. Manucher asking for graduate student to work in their offices after a set period of training.
27 Nationalities In University
The Registrar office announced that there are 27 nationalities recorded among the students of the Faculty of Arts ands Sciences. They are as follows:
Egyptian	178
Jordanian	57
Palestinian	41
Greeks	33
Libanese	17
American	13
British	8
Italian	6
Iranian	5
Iraqui	4
Saoudi Arabia	4
AOanesc	3
Bahranian	3
German	3
Sudanese	3
French	2
Indian	2
Syrian	2
One student representing each ol the following nationalities ; Albanian. Beige, Canadian, Dutsch. Indonesian, Kuwait, I>y-blan, Melanese, and Siamese.
The young men must be no younger than 22 years, not older than 25 and must be full Egyptians. They will receive their training in the different branches of the company in order to get an overall idea of how the company is run.
They will start by the oilfields in the desert to see and learn how the experts search for oil and how well are perforated to extract the fuel. After that first stage they will do office jobs in order to rasp the mechanism of the administration.
The training v/ill not stop at that point but the trainee will be sent to Europe for a period of six months in the different branches of the company to compare and study the different problems, while in Europe the trainee will receive the same wage his camarade of the same category will be rotributed.
After such an extensive training the young man will come back to Egypt where he will be holding one of the key-post in the Company with a start of sround 900 L.E. per year. «We already have provided two AUClans» said Mr. Manucher «and we are contacting some more graduates of last year*.
President tells staff about committees.
V s«‘lf-stiiily program carried through the work of different specialize*! Comniitleos will start in AUC this year. This self-study program has boon authorized by the Board of Trustees in Philadelphki so a.s to establish some specialized help In the different elements of the University life.
FIXCTIOX
The Curriculum Committee ■will establish policy concerning degree reciuirements: core, major and elective courses, introduction of now courses, development of new areas of study, academic regulations and procedures.
’Ine Student Life Committee will bo concerned with the ex-tra-cunlculer actiidties and the general rule.s of conduct for the college community.
The Assemblie.s 'Aimmittee will establish the policy of the Assembly programs, such as attendance, nature of program etc.
The .Adnibssion Committee will be in charge to formulate and recommend admissions i>o-llcies :
The Administrative Committee i'*ill act as a coordinating body for the general policy of the University. Matters like financial policy, academic regulations in exceptional cases, disciplinary ca.ses are in the bag of the Administrative Committee.
The Library Committee will advise tile library administrators on .sucli policies as Library hours, budget distribution etc.
Other Committees like the Committee on location and 1 uilding. on university events, on ■ylsitors and delegations, on relationships will serve ea<^ its specialized purpose.
Registrar Says X Might Be F
Mr. Michel Wahba, acting registrar, announced that students who had an X in a course at the end of the second semester of last year should sec t-a it that their X is changed to a grade by the end of this semester. In case the X is not changed it will mean an automatic F in the course.
The different specialized Committees which will be established to carry on tliis self-study program will include all the teaching staff of AUC, and their ■work will be carried under the direction of the President.
NATURE OF CO>LMlTTKSES These Committees might be
Gossett Head Of Admissions
■ Mr. Freemam Gosett, Chairman of the Social Science Department and Assistant Dean has also been appointed Director of the Admission Bureau of the Univers'ty,
Mr. Gossett’s new office is in t^e Faculty of Education building.
discharged or consolidated and their functions modified during the year. Committee members will work on a rotation base so as to Insure continuity and fresh viewpoints. All these Committees will be discharged unless It l)e determined that certain ones have a continuing function to jrerform, In which east they may be continuer! as standing committees. It Is not intended that the Univer.sity committees parallel or take the place of any of the standing or special committees of the various units of the University.
These Committees have as tlieir chief responsibility policy formulation, but some may also have designated administrative functions. Meeting will be held at regular intervals. probably once- a month and will be headed by the Committee Chairman
Naamany Flies To Beirut
Mr. Abdel Keider Naamani, Head of the Mathematic Department, is leaving Cairo by air, to-day to attend the wedding ceremonies of H.H. the
Emir Abdullah el Gaber el Sab-bah, Kuwait minister of Wakfs, Education and Justice.
Mr. Naamani will be back to Cairo on Monday.
Extension Substitutes Panels Plays And Concerts For Movies
DIVISION OF EXTENSION
Two kinds of public programs will be presented by the Division of Extension this semester.
Public lectures dealing with Fine Arts and their effects in the life of the Nation will be presented on Fridays in Ewart Hail. In this series of lectures, music, poetry, literature, drawing, sculpture, architecture, vocal a'ng'ng, theatre will be dealt with by outstanding speakers on the matter.
Most of these lectures will be Illustrated by recitals or exhibitions.
The movie program that made part of the Extension public programs in past years wll" be substituted for an educational movie program for Faculty
staff members and students exclusively.
«This decision was made on the basis that the University should engdge free from en-tional programs free from entertainment >, explained Mr. Hanna Rizk, director of the Division of Extension who added that popular story films is shown ail over Cairo cinema houses which have bettor pio-.lection equipment. Therefore, (he Extension .should limit it-.self to the purely educational type of movies.
The substitute educational movie programs will be pre-.sented on Thursday at Ewart Hal’., 5 pm. Other substitutes will be concerts, plays, pan-nels and debates presented on
Tuesdays at Ewart Hall. FORUMS
A series of Forums on Juvenile Dellnquints will be given on Saturdays in the Oriental Hall. Speakers will be members of the Egyptian delegation which attended the Juvenile Delinquints Conference in Geneva few weeks ago. I.ECTURES
The Division of Extension is organising Jointly wlUi the S.O.S. a series of lectures on everyday life among the Ancient Egyptians. Dr. Ahi-ne<f Fikry, the well-known Egyptian archeologlqt will be the .speaker on that topic.
Another series of lectures on Family Relationships will bo given by Mrs. Coffman, wife of the Director of Point Four educational program.