Caravan, Vol. 72, No. 20

              Volume 72 No.20
The American University in Cairo
Sunday March 8, 1992
               ’We Don’t Behave the Way They Do at Cairo U’
   By Dina Ebeid
   Every Thursday night one can see the same picture: Cairo’s sueets are overcrowded because Cairo’s youth is out to party.
   "Party" is the key word of this article. Five AUCians organized a private party on Thursday, Feb. 27, in Maadi “ because discotheques in Cairo have too smct regulations and people just want to have fun,”
said Mohammed Sabet, one of the party organizers.
    The five organizers had tickets jMinted. The first 200 tickets were yellow and cost LE 20. The tickets after the first 200 were green and cost LE 25 and tickets at the door cost LE 30, Tarek Ismail, another party organizer, said.
    Tickets were sold at AUC, CAC, the French and German schools, and to their friends. ’’People of the
Students Can’t Find Test Material
    By Ousamah Aldeghathcr
    A number of important articles took over two weeks to be processed for normal access in the reserve section of the AUC library.
    The articles are a critical part of undergraduate and graduate students’ readings for the Political Science courses (PS340 and PS580).
    Three distinguished professors from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oriental Studies are guest lecturers in the courses coordinated by Dan Tschirghi, Political Science associate professor.
    Vitoly Naumkin is responsible for the History section of the course which culminated in an exam, only hours before or after the readings for his lectures were put on reserve, on March 3.
    Tschirgi said, “There was an unfortunate delay on the part of the library staff.” Senior Library Assistant Somaya Rady said that someone put the material on one of the reserve book shelves instead of the shelf for processing.
    Tschirgi said, “Apparently what happened was something to do with the change of personnel who overlooked the material and did not process the material.”
    Tschirgi heard from students that the material was not there on reserve. He sent a student to check and it wasn’t there.
    Some students had what Tschirgi called “informal access” to the material for the course not yet on reserve. Hf said that “On the one hand, I am delighted the students had access (to the articles) but, on the other hand, it is preferable that they (the library) had proper procedures.”
    Hugueite Yaghmoun, head of access services in the library, pointed out that unprocessed
material in the reserve section is lent out for one or two hours in exchange for ID cards.
   Concerning the issue, Yaghmour said that students “should have given us some warning, an echo. If someone would have come and asked, immediately we would have solved this problem.”
                                                                                      Egyptians Join Youth Cruise
   By Fadwa El Semman
   The . Egyptian delegation composed of 10 AUCians and 10 members of other universities were aboard a Japanese ship for 45 days, as members of 13 different countries sailed off in an effort to eliminate all existing ethnic borders, between them.
   ‘The Ship for World Youth Program” (SWYP) is an initiative to broaden their youth’s understanding of world cultures, and motivation, to ensure wise future leaders for Japan (and the world).
   The Egyptian delegation, chosen by the High Supreme Council of Youth and Sports, joined the nip from Japan, to Singapore, to Sri Lanka, then Egypt, finishing in Spain.
   The members were expected to take part in sports activities, cultural activities such as the “International Day." Also seminars, lectures and discussions were presented, these mostly revolving around political, economic, historical, and social issuc.s were planned.
   “You cannot describe the experience in words. It’s once-in-a-lifetime to experience such an event. It’s really unique. I think we created a world of our own. The biggest enjoyment is that Cont. pg.4
same mentality,” Sabet added.
    So far, so good. When the party started, “we found out that someone from Cairo University forged at least 200 yellow tickets and sold them at Cairo University for 20 to 35 pounds,” said Yehia Ismail, party organizer. “This collected the filthiest people from there (Cairo University),” said Abdullah Kakai, party organizer.
    Despite the fact that forging is not a nice thing to do anyway, it did not only harm the party organizers ( who lost LE 2,000) but also harmal people who went to the party and expected to have fun.
    The first problem was that the party was too crowded, to the extent that some people could not even hear the band that was playing on the second floor balcony of the house. Sally Abaza, a Mass Communication freshman, said, ”lt was extremely crowded, so 1 didn’t hear much of the band, but people who stood closer said that it was very good.”
    Mahmoud Baddar, a graduate from Boston University, also said that the band had been excellent but “it was a pity that not a lot of people could hear it because there were just too many people.”
    The second problem was that some personal belongings got stolen. “A bag, a jacket, a passport, and a wallet got stolen,” said Kakai. Ashraf Abdel Hakim, Mathematics sophomore and one of the band members, said, “One of our (mikes) fell from the balcony; we went down immediately to get it, but by the time'we went down, the (mike) was gone.”
    The third problem the organizers had to face was drugs, including heavy drugs, like heroin. “I found even heroin and marijuana after the party, but this must have come from the people from Cairo University because this never happened before in any AUC party,” Kakai said.
    An Economics senior, who prefers to remain unidentified, said that a guy he had never seen before introduced himself by saying, “I’m the devil from hell. Who arc you?” The Economics senior said, “I think he was on heavy drugs, maybe LSD. He had wide opened shiny eyes.” He added that a lot of people blacked out and threw up and some of them had to be carried to their Cont. pg.4
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                  Ahmed Eissa Named Editor of Caravan
   By Shireen Farced
   Ahmed Eissa, Journalism and Mass Communication senior, was appointed     Caravan’s     new
editor-in-chief for the year 1992/1993, last Sunday.
   In his presentation to the Journalism       and        Mass
Communication faculty on March 1, Eissa, the Arabic Production Manager for the Caravan, proposed his ideas of enhancing further interaction with the students and encouraging their cooperation in producing their student newspaper.
   This, Eissa said, could be done by hiring reporters on a permanent or part-time basis and recruiting the Journalism students enrolled in the photography and reporting courses, for the Caravan.
   Ousamah Aldcgathcr, a Journalism and Mass Communication junior and another candidate running for the post, suggested ways of expansion for the Caravan to ultimately reach the news stands.
   Aldcgathcr questioned the feasibility of producing two i.ssues for the paper, one in the ordinary
sense of a campus issue and the other, a longer paper more oriented towards public issues.
   Having conducted a survey on campus concerning the Caravan, Nevine Abu El Dahab, another Journalism       and        Mass
Communication junior and candidate, seemed well-prepared for presentation, basing her recommendations              for
improvements upon concrete facts and figures pertaining to student opinions.
   Another two candidates who termed themselves as aliens competed for the post. Riyad Mustafa, Anthropology junior and Engy Shaaban, Business Administration senior, echoed each others’ opinions to a great extent. They both stressed the coverage of public issues, unrelated to AUC. Mustafa placed special emphasis on cultural events taking place in town and which AUCians do not have any idea about.
   “1 feel great that 1 won,” said Ei,s.sa, as the result was announced, “1 hope that 1 can maintain, and even enhance the .standard of the paper.”              Cont. pg.4