Caravan, Vol. 68, No. 6

              
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Voi.68, No.6
The Student Newspaper of the American Unlvaralty In Cairo
Week Beginning:
Sunday October 25, 1987
Soliman: AUCians can afford higher prices
By Khaled Dawoud
Khayria Soliman, the head of the food services department, admitted that AUC cafeteria prices are higher than those of other Egyptian universities, but she justified it by saying, "we are serving students who pay $6,000, or L.E. 2,500 a year. Therefore cafeteria
AUC Ian in too deep
Karim Shoukry
Randa El Nabarawi
Karim Shoukri, an AUC mass communication graduate student, narrowly escaped injury, or even death, a week ago when he and six friends were engulfed by the floods that struck the Sinai resort town of Noweiba'a.
He and his friends were camping on the beach that faces the Gulf of Aqaba when they saw the flood waters, caused by torrential rains, coming in their direction from the mountains behind them. Realizing they were struck between the flood waters on one side and some sand dunes on the other, they jumped into their car and managed to drive through the dunes just in times.
Shoukri, who is the son of Doris Shoukri, chairman of the AUC English and Comparative Literature Department, said he felt that press estimates of the nuber killed in the floods were far too low. A leading Cairo newspaper put the number of those who perished in
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prices must not be very expensive for them. They are not like Egyptian university students who pay only L.E. 6 per year."
Nonetheless, the prices of three types of sandwiches , chedder cheese, white cheese and luncheon meat, were cut recently.
But so was the amount of cheese or meat used.
"You asked for sandwiches like the SU's and
this is what we did," she	_____ ^ ^	> m
sS! NEW LIBRARY SECURITY SYSTEM
puts in." She added
Smith Richardson talks to students at library.
that she was not cheating the students, since she had said that she would not decrease prices, she had reduced the fillings and consequently the price went down. The cafeteria had sold a luncheon meat sandwich for 30 pts. They removed on piece of luncheon meat and the price dropped to 20 pts.
Soliman said that she was not saying that one piece of luncheon meat cost 10 pts, but that was
the price she had to sell it at to cover budget.
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By Dahlia Sawwan, Randa Abdou and Ousama Abdel Raliman
The AUC library instituted a temporary security	system	Wednesday
morning following the theft of five student bags left unattended next to the library's circulation desk.
The five bags were stolen	Tuesday	afternoon
while the owners were inside the library. The library was to have completed putting in a new security system in the near	future,	in which
student bags	would be
No barrel of jokes. Caravan readers say
By Marwa Moneir and Rania El-^war
What AUC institution ignores the arts, delights in using slang and lacks a sense of humor? You guessed it:	the
Caravan.
A random poll of readers suggests that while the paper is widely read, its English could be plainer, its contents sometimes are questionable and it takes itself a bit too seriously. It also has too much news about the Student Union and AUCTs various clubs.
.At least, that's the opinion of Amal Abu Thabl, a computer major. She says the Caravan needs to devote more space to students' problems.
Says Gulnar Esmate, a Business junior, "1 think the Caravan should have a bit more humor, thou^ it does cover events pretty well."
Amany Hassan Bassyouny, a Mass Communication junior, complains that the Caravan uses too much slang that's difficult to comprehend.
John Baracat, a freshman who Intends to major in engineering, says the Caravan needs to inform the reader of future campus events rather than ' reporting on ones that have already taken place.
Tardc Salib, a freslman who has yet to select a major, said there don't seem to be enou^ copies to go around. "It isn't easily available on all Cont. on p.4
tagged in much the same way they already are at the AUC bookstore on the Old Campus.
The temporary system installed by the library Wednesday consists of paper tags rather than the metal tags currently in use at the bookstore.
The first student to discover that his bag had been stolen was Adham Hassan, a Mechanical Engineering representative in the Student Union. After searching in vain for his bag, he said he asked a library attendant if he had seen anything unusual but got no reply. His voice rose to a shout as he then asked: "Who do I speak to?"
Students who overheard the exchange crowded around to see what was happening. Students on upper floors then rushed to the main floor, some of them shouting that perhaps other bags had been taken. A check of the storage area showed that, in fact, four other
The other students who lost bags were Hatan Za-zou, an economics major; Mustafa Hilal, and Berhan Bankashi.
By this time, there was near panic as students picked up their bags and left the library or insisted on taking them inside the library while they continued their
studies.	„	,
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bags were missing.
Hassan said his bag contained his driver's license and other important documents. Omar Agha, a Mechanical Engineering junior, said his bag, which was among those stolen, contained books and notes for a mid-term exam he was to have taken Thursday.
Ousama Abdel Rahman By Randa El Nabarawi
Ousama Abdel Rahman first learned he had a nose for news last sunmer when he worked as an intern for the Cairo bureau of the Middle East Times, the weekly news magazine published in A thens.
Abdel Rahman, a Mass Communication,junior, got the internship as part of a course conducted by S. Abdullah Schleifer, director of the AUC Television Center. He admits Cont. on p.4