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It is great to see so many people joining the protest against the tuition increase and I hope we will see protests in other universities because the same thing is happening there too. A 37% increase in four years (If what the students are saying is true) is unacceptable.
Hundreds of students at the American University of Beirut turned out Thursday to protest a planned tuition hike scheduled to take effect next year.
Students rallied in front of College Hall chanting ‘We won’t pay!’ into microphones as they hoisted colorful signs featuring slogans both serious and playful.
“Our wallets strip for AUB” read one sign in a tongue-in-cheek reference to the recent viral campaign to support Lebanese Olympic skier Jackie Chamoun.
Others read “Raise cost, we raise hell!” “Students sentenced to debt,” and “Show me the money.”
“Over the years, the university has been increasing the tuition with no evidence of why they need it,” said Youssef Samdakil, a third-year mechanical engineering student and one of the protest organizers. Samdakil is also a member of the University Student Faculty Committee’s Tuition Increase Committee, which organized the protest. [DailyStar]
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Hi Najib,
I was hoping you could check this out and share if possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nlt9TwjX3k
#STFI #Occupy_AUB
nice video. What I find fascinating is the sign at min 00:24 where with a typo “skatehoder” instead o “skatehoLder”. Oh the irony!!!!
i used to work inside AUB offices and heard once one of the presidents saying something like “i have no power to decide or change many things on the campus” the faculty of arts & sciences and board of trustees w hal 2osas has more power simply because many relate back to political parties in lebanon.
i was very shocked that period as i thought AUB was a good model.. its as lebanon, all corruption and WASTA.
concerning the strike…. i think the very rich students (who wont really care about 6% more or less since they r very rich) must also participate in the strikes so they can show that they are also affected..otherwise iam not very optimistic
Yeah there is a lot of ‘wasta’ in AUB. I knew a few students who used to get financial aid without even being needy, just because they knew a few guys at the financial aid department.