Campus Caravan, Vol. XXVII, No. 21

              Official Student Publication of the American University at Cairo
.. M„» CAMPUS
CARAVAN
Number 21
Anniversary
Issue
Volume XXV
Caravan is Result of AUC Review and Bore
AUC Journalism First
by President John S. Badeau
I was present at the original meeting in which the project of establishing work in Journalism at A.U.C. was first discussed. Dr. Watson, Fuad Sairuf and Dean Galt were the other memheis of the group. Up to that time no institution, so far as we knew, had attempted to train journalists in the Middle East. The main question to be settled was whether ngally hr^lnnprd in university education. Was it
First Review Born ^Afttfe-^futore Hop^
30 Stuc^nts Cdifne 7 7nJ .
1	A quurter of a century ago Tpj
From
Fifty per cent of the 30 stud?nts now enrolled in the journalism sequence are Egyptians. The remaining 15 represent four other nationalities as follows: Palestinian, 10 ; Transjordanian, 3 ; Sudanese, 1 ; and Iraqi, 1.
The junior class has the highest enrollment, 12; there are 10 seniors and 8 sophemores. Men outnumber girls 6 to 1 ; there is one coed in each of the juni^ and senior classes, but the sc omore class has a trio of botjiOr-roll girls.
Journalistic studenu' jdc not restrict their extra-pwFKular activities to the Cc«pus Caravan;/ this is shewn by jrfie offices th have held tlfiy year and years in otner campus izations. A number of them are also working [part-time for Cairo newspapers, tweby gaining valuable experienK in the commercial press prior tb ! graduation.
Seven stu<Mts are working with Akhbar|_
2^ein El Abdin, senior; Izzat Fahim Yu.sif, Mohamed Ibrahim —Continued on page 2b
A.U.C. Review, publication on t peared; it was tj sincere efforts o listic-mir.dfd st Though mi
aUte^ra
'Off
meographed A.U.C. Review that made its appearance ‘way back in 1925’”.
simply J. kind of trade — like that of a good mechanic — that could best be learned by experience ?
As we debated this question several clear convictions emerged. The first was that the world of publishing and writing in the Middle East needed a greater sense of professional and social responsibility. While the out-
Zontinued on page 3b
taravan Merger of eview
first stud(|nt campus, dp' result cf tjh^ few jourt^-dints.
raphed, this
issue inclv.dfd^rtoons, ncvvjit^s, club new^^imd an editotdft^ The first D^^rd been sen(^6 a printer ^tfiat a cut of inp main en-tjMCc might bc/»ld.
ts four fool^p pages spoke of /the efforts cTwcsc who produced that issue^Fd the rditcrial, entitled	day Remarks”, gave
exprc<s|i(m to the realization of a neic^f a medium of student ex-ision r.r.d eximmunication. It ^appealed warmy*to Uk strrflen body for fina^ial and support.
conclud
with ; ‘‘We dare to hor>e tf this sheet may prove to be the \e humble beginning cf a futi great student publication that be a source of pride to the <x)lle and will refer sometimes in
tic
itely 7,000 wc Cara\'an, incoi and tllci A.U.C.
r
12 pages and 000 words, the incorporating Review, on Thursday,
Consisting aroximately
fpus Jore and first issui 28, 1937 rhere is a story behind its pub-
I.tion, a story of difficulties t had been overcome by cooption and the sharing of respon-
Paper’s 25 Year Growth Reviewed
Approximately 25 years ago — April 9, 1925, to be exact — the first A.U.C. student publication, The A.U.C. Review, appeared in mimeographed form. ‘‘In today’s Caravan supplement this year’s Editorial Board, staff, and advisers salute those who started The Review and all those who have contributed to The Review, The Bore, and the Caravan”, stated Jacqueline Kheury, editor-in<hief.
wiat ai^~lo extend our congratulations tel A.U.C. graduates now workii^in journalistic fields and to offer! flur best wishes for their continue success”, shq added.
[1925 was the TesntT of diTigent work by five enthusiastic students erKouraged and advised by Mr. Cloyce Huston, a member of the English Department, who offered a semester course in journalism. The five
itiudents
Ibjlities. The
stoiy
.’fiCBt
was told editoii
In 1936-^7 tKere had been *"t’ rival publications appearing simultaneously on the campus and claiming an identical authority. the one on the basis of its long past, the other on the basis of its cultural superiority”.
The Review ‘‘had lost a number jracteristics and lefinltely aSUdoned a portion ^s tradition,” s^id the editorial. ftt| had ceased a t|> jsatisfy the individual taste of i student. It had ceased, more-iv^r, to be a literary publication I I any recognized sense of the ir^. And it was fast degenerating iht^ a paper whose sole aim was
tie campus supplied. It died a lingering death, only three standard —Continued on page 2b
Isaac M. Husseini David Lisha, and Two years lati ced mimeographi that Edmund Ale: inted editor-in-t an end to rating the edito^skip The Review’s contents during ose first few yws were of a
n Arslanian, aul Guiunian, rbis Artinian. printing repla-A year after ider was ap-f; this choice the system of
ried nature; car ok reviews, pc
ials on such subjects as the
rit de corps
>ns, puzzles, iSj and edi-
A.U.C.
The bi-weekly Arabic-English ue appeared in the fall of 30 under the djr|ction of Eva [abib el Masii, ^e first coed
editor-in-chief. Review appeared i the exeption of a numbers.
The size of the p with the years.
fore that the English, with e,w odd Arabic
ication varied e small size t^at currently used ; the medium form was about the size of an American tabloid; —Continued on page 2b