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ELECTIONS cont'd from p 1 committees will take place between November 25 and December 4, daily between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in the Office of the Dean of Students. I nterested candidates are urged to submit in person a written nomination to a specific class to the Office of the Dean of Students, and must present his/her 1.0. Card. Eligibility for nomination is explained in Article II of the Constitution The details of eligibility are posted in several appropriate places on campus, and are available in the Office of the Dean of Students. Final date for withdrawing nominations is Tuesday, December 8, at 12:00 noon. Final list of candidates by class, by alphabetical order, will be distributed by the Office of the Dean of Students.
TALENT SHOW The Music Club will be holding soon a talent show. Those interested in performing are invited to go to the Club room in West Hall.
READERS FOR THE BLIND Volunteer readers for the blind are needed. Please contact Mrs. W. A. Ward, extension 3412.
REGISTRATION cont'd from p 1 AU B 's computer chose registration time to break down. In two hectic days operations we re transferred to an MEA computer. But a number of the resulting cards turned out wrong and had to be corrected by hand. Dr. Haddad, himself an AUB graduate (BA, 1957 - MA, 1960) with a PhD from the University of Chicago, wants to transfer more operations to AUB's present computer or the more sophisticated one the University hopes to acquire. But th is takes technicians. programming, and money, none of which are in adequate supply. And even a computer could not solve such problems as that of the desperate business school student who sought relief from one professor after another because of the three courses she needed to graduate, two conflicted. Just plain time is in short supply too. Here is the final registration round-up: Arts and Sciences 2,350 Medicine 446 Engineering and Architecture 783 Agricultural and Food Sciences 366 Nursing 122 Public Health 200 Special 26 Extension 192 OCP 380 --"4865
cont'd from p 1 cooperation between AUB and universities in the Gulf, and on the academic services offered through the University's faculty, and in particular AUB's Research and Development Administrative Center (RA[}AC). The importance of financial support to AUB to maintain its academic services to the Gulf and the Arab world in general was also discussed.
PROFESSOR SAGHIR WORKS ON WEED CONTROL PROBLEMS IN U. S.A.
Page from ibn Sinan's original manuscript.
PROFESSORS KENNEDY AND MUWAFI PRESENT PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL 'CONGRESS AUB's contributions to the study of Arab cultural history continued this summer with the presentation of two research papers at the 16th International Congress of the History of Science held in Bucharest , Rumania from August 26 to September 23. Retired professor of mathematics Edward Kennedy gave a paper on "Mathematics Appl ied to Astrology" and Professor Amin Muwafi presented one on "Ibn Sinan's Treatise on the Construction of the Three Conic Sections." Dr. Kennedy, editor of the Journal of Arabic Science (published in Aleppo) and author of many related studies, is world renowned as a scholar in the field. A few years ago he inspired Dr. Muwafi to follow along the same intellectual route. The latter's PhD from the University of Florida was in straight math, the numbers theory, to be specific. For his debut in the historical field, new to him but old in fact, he took the Baghdad mathematician, Ibn Sinan, who lived from 908 to 945 A.D. To describe his subject he quotes a biographical article by Roshdi Rashed. "Ibn Sinan left a
Dr. A. R. Saghir, Professor of Weed Science at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences is currently spending a 6-month sabbatical leave in U.S.A. which started last July. Dr. Saghir spent six weeks at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center at Prosser Washington, working with Dr: Jean Dawson on the parasitic weed Cuscuta. After that he joined the San Joaquin Valley Ag ric ulture Research and Extension Center at Parlier, California to work with Dr. A. H. Lange on various weed control problems in vegetables and fruit trees for four months. During his stay on the west coast, Dr. Saghir visited with weed scientists from Oregon State University at Corvallis, Washington State University at Pullman, and the University of Idaho at Moscow. He presented seminars on his work conducted in Lebanon on the biology and control of Orobanche to the weed science groups at WSU Prosser, and the University of Idaho, Moscow. Prior to his trip to the United States Dr. Saghir served for tw() weeks last June as an FAO consultant on weed problems in Algeria. During his visit to the FAO headquarters in Rome, Dr. Saghir met with Mr. Lukas Brader, Chief of the FAO Plant Protection Service, and Mr. L. J. Matthews, FAO Weed Specialist. He also met Mr. A. AI-Jaff, Chief, Regional Operations Service (AGON), and Dr. S. Badawi (AUB alumnus, B. Sc. Agric, '56), Country Project Officer for Algeria.
notable body of work, the force and perspicuity of which have often been underlined by} biographers and historians ... He intended to revive classical geometric analysis in order to develop it in a separate treatise ... The author may be considered one of the foremost Arab mathematicians to treat problems of mathematical philosophy." The study analyzed by Dr. Muwafi was reprinted with commentary in a Hyderabad pub I ication. But Dr. Muwafi found it so full of errors he turned to a photocopy of the original which Dr. Kennedy had had made. The Congress meets every four years in different parts of the globe. Twelve hundred scholars attended this last one. The Arab world was represented by Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia as well as AUB's two participants from Lebanon. Because of its location this congress had large delegations from the Soviet Union and Rumania. In fact several papers in the volume of abstracts are printed in Russian.
JAMES JOYCE CENTENARY In anticipation of the James Joyce Centenary Commemoration in February 1982, the Beirut Centenary Committee of the Vlllth James Joyce International Symposium and the Department of English of the American University of Beirut present a public lecture on Irish Poetry from 1600 - 1900 : Poems of the Dispossessed by His Excellency Gearoid 0 Clerigh, Ambassador of Ireland in Lebanon, at 5 p.m., on Wednesday, 2 December, at West Hall Auditorium. The lecture will include poetry readings by Professor Suheil Bushrui and Mrs. Nadia Bushrui Malarkey.
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Volume XXIV No.5
Monday, December 14, 1981
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FIVE YEARS OF RESEARCH
One hundred and eighty-five pages of research titles and publications by AUB Faculty over a period of five years (1975-1980) is indeed a remarkable achievement. The works cited in the 16th Research Report cover the University's five Faculties and their various departments, as well as Pharmacy and the Divison of Educat~on and Extension Programs. In his foreword to the report, Acting President David S. Dodge says: "That the American University of Beirut has continued its operation all through these difficult years in Lebanon is a reflection of the determination of the Faculty to provide an education to those who seek it.
JOYCE'S CENTENARY COMMEMORATION The James Joyce Centenary Commemoration next February brings to the campus several distinguished and world renowned scholars. Varying international activities are planned to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial and impressive creators of prose in modern times. It is an indication of Joyce's world stature that such momentous events are being organized not only in Ireland but also at AUB in Lebanon, and throughout other Arab capitals. The Department of English is sponsoring the commemoration together with the James Joyce Foundation of Ireland, the VIII International James Joyce Symposium 1982, and the Centenary Committee, Beirut. James Joyce was born in a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, on 2 cont'd p 2
That the Faculty should, in addition to its teaching duties, and in spite of serious financial, technical, equipment, and supply difficulties, maintain its research activity, is an indication of the importance our Faculty attaches to research. This report represents the effort of the Faculty who, during six very difficu It years, have managed to keep the tradition of researc," llive." The introduction to the Report, "Whither AUB?" is by Professor George Fawwaz, Dr. PhiL, Dr. med., who describes it as an excursion through the campus lasting 110 years. Dr. Fawwaz pays homage to the pioneering work of the early missionaries, noting that such names as Van Dyck, Calhoun, Bliss, Dodge, Jessup, Post, Eddy, Ford, Wortabet will forever be con nected with the cultural history of this part of the world. Dr. Fawwaz goes on to discuss the indivisibility of teaching and research, the making of a scholar, and AUB's place and usefulness in this part of the world. He says many AUB graduates emigratedto U.S.A. and attained academic positions of great distinction. The Philip Hittis, Victor I\lajjars, Nicola Khuris, Alfred Farahs, cont'd p 2
L.L. 5 MILLION FROM KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA FOR MEDICAL CENTER AUB has recently received L.L. 5 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a contribution to the Medical Center. This gift was presented by H.E. the Saudi ambassador, General Ali Alshaer to Acting President David Dodge, during a ceremony at the Embassy. Mr. Dodge was accompanied by a number of University officials including Mr. Nazih Zeidan, Assistant to the President, Dr. Raja Khuri, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, Dr. Samih Alami, Chairman of Laboratory Medicine, and Mr. Munthir Kuzayli, Director of the Medical Center.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been a long-time supporter of AUB morally and financially. In 1978 Ambassador Ali Alshaer presented on behalf of the Kingdom a check for L.L. 5 million as a token support from the Government of Saudi Arabia to AUB's Hospital which has been offering its services to people of the Arab world. Mr. Dodge thanked H.E. the Ambassador for this donation and requested him to convey to His Majesty King Khaled the Un iversity's deep appreciation. Ambassador Alshaer praised AUB's role in offering educational and health services to people of the Arab world.
STUDENT ELECTIONS 85 ELECTED OUT OF 200 CANDIDATES Student elections, the first since 1974, took place in a most calm atmosphere last Wednesday, 9 December. The elections of student representative commi ttee s were the subject of extensive coverage in the local media, with papers highlighting the success of this important student event. A special coverage of the elections was shown on TV, with shots of students voting. The program producer stressed that democracy continues to prevail on campus. The distribution of candidates was by Faculty and Class. There were five voting booths, each supervised by a Faculty member. Classes were not interrupted. Out of 200 candidates 85 students were elected. The Dean of Students, Dr. Fawzi AI Haj spoke in a statement to the Bulletin of his pride of the discipline shown by students, and of the democratic spirit which prevailed. Dean Haj pointed out that a high
Sophomore Arts, Sciences and Business: Fady Abbas, Wail Abu
prnportion of the student body participated. The followi ng have been elected to the Student Representative Committees in the five Faculties:
Junior Arts, Sciences and Business:
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Freshman Arts and Sciences:
Muhammad Ajam, Wail Asi, Mahir
Miss Dina Masri, Samih Nasr.
Hamzah, Walid Alami, Amir Daouk, Basil Fuleihan, Fadi Kabbarah, Muhammad Khatib, Miss Rula Muwaffak, Ahmad Zayn. Labib Abu Zahr, Safi Harb, Ali Jaber, Ziad Khatib, Nadim Ladki, Ziyad Saba, Rabih Suki.
Senior Arts, Sciences and Business:
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JAMES JOYCE CENTENARY cont'd from p 1
February, 1882 and died in Zurich, Switzerland, on 13 January, 1941. Though he lived outside Ireland from 1904 until his death, Irish life was to be the subject of all his prose writings. Dubliners, a collection of short stories, was published in 1914, and his autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, in 1916. His epic novel Ulysses was published in complete form in 1922. During his last years, fighting against poor health and bad eyesight, he completed his final novel, Finnegans Wake. The guests of honour include Professor and Mrs. Bernard Benstock, Professor Maurice Harmon, Mr. Patrick J. Long, Professor and Mrs. Augustine Mart in, a nd Professor David Norris. The great Nobel prize-winning playwright Samuel Beckett has sent from Paris the following message to the chairman of the Beirut Centenary committee: "I welcome this occasion to bow once again, before I go, deep down, before his heroic work, heroic being." Committee members are Mr. Nabeel Ashkar, Professor Suheil Bushrui, Miss Arminee Choukassizian, Dr. Vincent Dolan, Mr. Ibrahim Kankashian, Mr. Zahi Khuri, and Professor John Ryan, all of AUB. The four-day (February 2路5) commemorative program begins with an exhibition, in Jafet Memorial Library, of 200 photographs, with a bi-lingual (Arabic and English) commentary. It is held under the auspices of the Lord Mayor of Dublin Alderman Senator Alexis Fitzgerald and will be opened by H.E. Gearoid O'Clerigh, Ambassador of I reland in Lebanon. As Lebanon's and the Ara b world's contribution to Ireland's own festivities, the exhibition will be transferred to Dublin next June. The program also includes a film and a concert. Admission is by ticket obtainable free of charge from Professor John Ryan, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, or the West
SERVICE AWARD FOR MRS. KABAKIAN Mrs. Zarouhie Kabakian of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics was last month awarded a service pin for 20 yea rs of service. Faculty members from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and non-academic personnel were invited to attend this ceremony. Mr. Salam Rayes, Director of Personnel, was also present. Dr. Joseph E. Azar, Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics presented the pin to Mrs. Zarouhie Kabakian.
Hall countE;!r. Five public lectures are scheduled to be given by Ambassador Gearoid O'Clerigh; Professor David Norris, Trinity College, Dublin; Professor Augustine Martin, University Colleg,e, Dublin; Professor Bernard Benstock, University of III i n ois at Urbana-Champaign; Professor Suheil Bushrui, in Arabic. The program will end by a panel discussion, chaired by Professor Benstock and Professor Bushrui. Two centenary publications am to appear in June, and in December 1982. The first, James Joyce: an International Perspective is edited by Suheil Bushrui and Bernard Benstock. The second, AI路Dubliniyyun is a translation of Dubliners by S.B. Bushrui and Ahmad al-Khateeb. Other activities include TV and Radio Broadcasts, a special issue of "AI路Adab", feature articles in the Arabic press of Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, together with public lectures in Amman, Damascus, and Kuwait. The centenary exhibition will also be on view in Amman, Kuwait, and Riyadh.
630 YEARS OF SERVICE Nineteen employees and workers, each with at least 30 years of service, were awarded pins and/or watches early this month. The presentation was made in Ada Dodge Hall. Acting President David Dodge, Mr. John Saba, president of the AUB Staff and Workers Syndicate, and Mr. Salam Rayes, Director of Personnel spoke in appreciation of the long and loyal service of the 19 employees and workers: Mr. Murshid Shahda (45 years); Mr. Yusuf Mansur (40); Mr. Hannibal Rubeiz, Mr. Naim Shami, Mr. Mufid Eid, Mr. Michel Abdo
TWENTY ACTIVE STUDENT CLUBS
West Hall where student clubs are located.
The University has currently twenty student clubs: badminton, cartoon and comic art, chess, camping and hiking, cine', drama, debating, fight pollution, folk dance, judo, karate, music, modelling, photography, red cross, social services, table tennis, tae-kwon-dc;, ushering, and yoga. Other stuclent activities are undertaken by the Student Cooperative, and the Civic Welfare League. There are also three sports clubs: tennis, diving, and canoe and life-saving.
Around one thousand students are members of these clubs. The director of Student Clubs and Public Functions, Mr. Nabeel G. Ashkar has explained that the purpose of these clubs is to bring together students who enjoy a common activity, irrespective of their discipline and field of study. It is such extra-curricular activities, Mr. Ashkar said, that make AUB different. from other universities or technical schools. Students find that the time they give to club activities is really well spent.
Keep your campus clean
Rubeiz, Mi~ Rose Subhiyeh, Mr. Nicola Nehme, Mr. Hanna Hanna (35); Mr. Suleiman Haddad, Miss Angele Hirmis, Mr. George Baddoush, Mr. Seifud-Dine Karam, Mr. Simon Khoury, Mr. Tanius Sa'd, Mr. Hanna Araj, Mr. Naja Beiruti, Mr. Elias Abdallah, and Mr. Said Bassil (30); a total of 630 years of service.
DR. R. T. HOWLING DIES The sad news of the decease last September in Milford of Dr. Robert Tunis Howling, 60, Professor of English at the Un i versity of New Haven in U.S.A. has reached his friends here on campus. Upon receiving his doctorate in English, Professor Howling was appointed chairman of AUB's English Language Program. He also had a two-year teaching assignment at the College of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Professor Howling was a member of the Shakespeare Association of America and the Modern Language Association. He is listed in the National Register of Prominent Americans and I nternational Notables, 1970路71. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Lung Association or the American Cancer Society.
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Saleh Wakils, Mansour Armalis, Ramzi ,Cotrans, Khalil Wakims and Philip Khairallahs_to mention but a few - would not be what they are without the stimulation they received at the hands of their undergraduate teachers at AUB, Dr. Fawwaz points out. He quotes President Daniel Bliss who wrote in his Reminiscences: "We were not anxious to appear great, but we were anxious to lay foundations upon which greatness could be built." Dr. Fawwaz concludes by asserting that AUB has been consistent all along, true to the ideals of its founders more than a century ago, true to itself. Free copies are available at the Office of University Publications Ada Dodge Hall.
Volume XXIV No.6
Monday, January 4, 1982
TAG SCHOOL NEW DIRECTOR Beirut Business Forum Newsletter, Volume 1, No 1 (December 1981) is an attractive new publication which will be appearing on a quarterly basis. Future BBF Newsletter issues wi II cover the "Petroleum Studies Program: AUB's new look at the Middle East". The p resent issue however includes the following article on TAG Graduate School of Business and Management: "We are the Harvard of the Middle East in business studies and we are trying to be a better Harvard". This is the comment of Dr. Clement M. Henry, new director of the school of Business and Management at the American Unversity of Beirut (A U B), himself a Ph.D. from Harvard University. In September 1981 he took over direction of the three-year old school from Dr. Fredrick T. Bent who returned to teach at Cornell University in the U.S.A. A quasi-autonomous unit with a venerable history as a department within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the School was started with a major initial grant from Talal Abu Ghazaleh, an AUB alumnus; "TAG", after whom the School is named, is also a member of AUB's Board of Trustees. Last aut u m n the School moved into its own building, the former Medical Building built in 1873, now handsomely renovated; it contains three classrooms, a conference hall, and office space for faculty and staff. The School has about 500 students enrolled with well over 125 graduating each year in the B.B.A. or M.B.A. programs. The great majority of the students are Lebanese. The proportion of women to men (2:3) is slightly higher than in most leading American schools of business administration. A major recent change in the School's program concerns a revision of the curriculum to bring it more in line with those of American Schools of Business. More changes will be introduced during this academic year, notably in computer application to business. Last spri ng, for the second time, an Employment Roster (underwritten by contributions from important companies) helped bring graduates into contact with prospective employers. In this context it is noteworthy for readers in U.S.A. that AUB is an entity cont'd p 3
SECOND STAGE OF STUDENT ELECTIONS
FAMIL Y MEDICINE PRACTICE CENTER The Family Medicine Practice Center, a new discipline at AUB, was inaugurated last month. The Center was opened by H.E. the Minister of Public Health, Dr. Nazih Bizri in the presence of Acting President David S. Dodge, Dean Raja Khuri, Mr. Radwan Mawlawi, Dr. Caesar Shediac, Mr. Munthir Kuzayli, and senior professors of the Faculty of Medicine. Speaking on this occasion, Dr. B izri referred to health development in Lebanon and the Arab countries, stressing that the Faculty of Medicine's graduates will look after the country's health units, and provide health care to all. The Minister hoped all necessary equipment would always be supplied to the Center and Faculty to teach the discipline of public health and maintain their medical and therapeutical services. The work of the center's graduates, the Minister said, will be looked at with gratitude and appreciation by Lebanon. In his word of welcome, Dean K h uri said the inaugural ceremony of this mUltiple-phase venture was the culmination of three and a half years of work at several levels. "We firmly believe that family medicine is extremely important to the
we I fare of Lebanon and the region, and that work in this field is only just beginning", he said. Dean Khuri thanked the Minister of Public Health for the countless ways in which he always assists the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center. De a n K h uri expressed the Faculty's gratitude to Acting President Dodge, whose major contribution made it possible to open this Center. The Center's head, Dr. Caesar Shediac said in a brief speech that Family Medicine is now a department in its own right. Family Medicine, he explained, has been gaining tremendous impetus over the past twelve years in U.S.A., and recently in Europe. He defined this new specialty as comprehensive med i ca I care with particular emphasis on the family unit. It is a specialty in breadth, he said, which builds upon a core of knowledge drawing heavily on internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetri cs and gynecology, surgery and psychiatry. The physician trained in Family Medicine is qualified to practice in several fields of medicine and surgery. Seeing a great need for this type of medical specialist in cont'd p 2
H.E. Gearoid 0 Oerigh, Ambassador of Ireland in Leban.on w~o. del~vered last month a public lecture on Irish poetry from 1600-1900 In antiCipation of the forthcoming James Joyce Centenary Commemoration, together with Professor Suheil Bushrui and Mrs. Nadia Bushrui Malarkey both of whom also gave poetry readings.
With quiet satisfaction the Dean of Students, Dr. Fawzi Hajj commented on the successful carrying out of the December 9 elections within each faculty. Interviewed in his spacious office at the northeast corner of West Hall, Dean Hajj remarked that this was the first election for the whole AUB student body since 1974 and, to his knowledge, the only election in any Lebanese institution, especially academic, during these last troubled years. The participation rate was high, for more than half the students made their wishes known, allowing for student representation at the grass roots level. The constitution for the Student Representative Committee and the University Student Faculty Committee was approved by the Senate and the President of the University in June 1981. The elected representatives are to constitute the faculty's Student Representative Committee, and the first stage has been completed. I n the second stage each Student Representative Committee will elect its representatives to the University Student-Faculty Committee' as follows: Arts and Sciences, 5; Engineering and Architecture, 3; Medicine, 2; Agriculture, 2; Health Sciences, 1, the ratio be i n g based on the number enrolled in each faculty. This university wide committee will also include six' faculty members elected by the various faculties and, ex-officio, the Dean of Students, the chairman of the University's Student Affairs Co m mittee. The President of the University or his designated representative wi II be the Chairman of the Committee. Dean Hajj called the election experience "an encouraging one in the sense that every group of students was able to express its position freely whether it was for or against the election process. The campaigns for candidates we re we II thought out and acceptable by any standard of a sound democracy. The rate of participation in each faculty varied from 50% to 75% and the results fairly reflect the diversity of student opinion ." In conclusion the Dean remarked: "As students progress in setting up their committees I look forward enthusiastically to cooperating with the rep resentat ives.
Volume XXIV No.9
Monday, February 15, 1982
SYMPOSIUM ON CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO TEXT ANALYSIS
TAG CAREER WEEK TAG Graduate School of Business and Management is organizing its annual "career week" early next month. The week is open to Business and a~iness Economics juniors and seniors and to Business graduate students. It consists of six panels - introductory, marketing, management consulting, accounting and auditing, finance, and insurance - to be held in Van Dyck Hall Amphitheatre, 16:00 - 18:00 hrs. iI ntroductory Panel. Monday, March 1 C h air man: Pro f e s so r Clement Henry Panelists: Mr. Atef Jubayli, General Manager-Administration, Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co. (Tapline);' Mr. Tom King, Consultant, Industrial Development Co. (Indevco); Dr. Abdo BardawHr Assistant Vice President, Middle East Airlines Airliban S.A.l.; Dr. Richard Macken, Senior Analyst for Middle Eastern Affairs, Gulf Oil Corporation. ii - Marketing. Tuesday, March 2 Chairman. Professor Nimr Eid Panelists: Mr. David Farsoun, Marketing Director, Charles E. Frost & Co. (Middle East) S.A.l.; Mr. Leonard Maestre, Vice-President, Citibank, N.A.; Mr. Fouad Racy, Manager Market, The Coral Oil Co. Ltd.; Mr. Samir Hawwa, Manager Lebanon, Jordan, Libya & Egypt or Mr. John Langdell, cont'd p 3
PROFESSOR SCHOEN ADDRESSES CSP FORUM The paper presented last month by Professor Schoen is rev i e w ed below by Professor N. Matar, C.S. Forum Coordinator: The C.S. Forum held its second meeting on January 28, in the Conference Room, Observatory. Dr. Ulrich Schoen, Professor of History of Religion at the University of Mainz, and currently Visiting Professor at theology institutes in Lebanon, read a paper on "Messianic and Pseudo Messianic Movements in Middle Eastern Religion". Having defined messianism as the idea of the end of this world cont'd p 3
Guests of honor
JAMES JOYCE CENTENARY COMMEMORATED ON CAMPUS The James Joyce Centenary Commemoration has been widely covered by the various local and foreign media. The impressive program was a notable event involving distinguished scholars, and drew many admirers and guests. It was organized by the VHI International James Joyce Symposium 1982 Centenary Committee in Beirut, and AUB's Department of English. The opening ceremony was
PROFESSOR HAW I APPOINTED TO MARGARET WEYERHAEUSER JEWETT CHAIR OF ARABIC
addressed by Acting President David S. Dodge who said in his word of welcome that AUB, which is dedicated to bring closer together the cultures of east and west, was very pleased to host the program. A centenary message sent by Nobel prize-winning playright Sa m u e I Beckett to Professor Suheil Bushrui, and a tribute by Richard Ellmann, were read by Mr. D eclan HoI mes, First Secretary, Embassy of Ireland, and a recording (1929) was played of James Joyce reading part of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" extract from Finnegans Wake. An introduction followed of the Commemoration's guests of Honour: Professor and Mrs. Bernard Benstock. Professor Maurice Harmon, Mr. Patrick J. Long, Professor Augustine cont'd p 2
PROFESSOR HENDERSON GRANTED LEAVE
Professor Khalil Hawi of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages has been appointed to the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic at AUB. In his letter informing Professor Hawi of this appointment, Dean Elie A. Salem of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences says it was made after consultation with his colleagues, the Advisory committee, and the Board of Deans, and that all concerned look upon the appointment with approval and enthusiasm. Dean Salem presented his thanks for Professor Hawi's past contributions and his congratulations on this appointment. The Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic was cont'd p 2
Professor Henderson
Dr. Harry D. Henderson, Professor and Cha'irman, Department of Soils, Irrigation and Mechanization, was recently granted a leave of absence for one year from the University. His leave was granted as a result of a request from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) so that he can assist in the establishment of an agricultural engineering department at Luyengo cont'd p 2
Professor James Malarkey has kindly supplied the Bulletin with an extensive review of the interdisciplinary symposium on contemporary approaches to text analysis which the C.S. Program held in Marquand House last month. Below is part of the review; the remaining part will appear in the next Bulletin. If you begin to study any great text such as The Odyssey, The Peloponesian Wars, Oedipus the King, The Divine Comedy, The Muqaddimah (of Ibn Khaldoun), The Critique of Pure Reason, Waiting for Godot or Midaq Alley you will quickly realize that the number of pages of critical commentary on anyone text by far exceeds the number of pages in the text itself. Criticism proliferates. Yet, the student is dismayed to discover that the "true" and "complete" meaning of such texts remains elusive or seemingly inexhaustable. The aim of the recent symposium on "text analysis" held at AUB was not to arrive at conclusions., concerning the best guide to understanding the classics of East or West, but, rather, to investigate some of the most influential current approaches to text analysis in both the humanities and the social sciences. The proceedings were held on 20 - 22 January in Marquand House and the occasion was dedicated to Professor Richard Scott for his many years of meritorious service to the University. Following introductory remarks by the moderator, Professor Tarif Khalidi, Dean Elie Salem and program coordi nator, Professor James Malarkey, a series of papers were presented designed to illustrate the different theories and methods of text analysis. In the first lecture Professor George Khairallah showed us that, despite the immense changes in the world during the past two millenia, Aristotle's principles of literary creation remain of suprising relevance. Oedipus the King and other modern classics were taken as examples. Professor Scott discussed the way in which social and economic factors influence the "production of texts." After explaining the principles of the cont'd p 3
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SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND COURSES
Lady Cochrane speaks at exhibition opening
JAMES JOYCE CENTENARY COMMEMORATED ON CAMPUS cont'd from p 1 Martin, and Professor David Norris. Two addresses, by H.E. Gearoid O'Clerigh, Ambassador of Ireland and Professor Bushrui were made. H.E. the Ambassador said no other town was more propitious than Beirut for the commemoration of the James Joy c e C e n ten a r y. He read a letter of thanks to AUB from Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs. Professor Bushrui, Chairman of the Beirut Centenary Committee, said the entire programexhibition, lectures, film, concert and panel discussion-together with the Centenary publication James Joyce: An International Perspective, edited by Suheil Bushrui & Bernard Benstock, are all dedicated to the memory of Sir Desmond Cochrane, who was Honorary Consul General of Ireland in Lebanon from 1948 to 1979, and who did much to encourage and promote scholarly research in the field of Anglo-Irish studies in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab World. The Centenary celebrations were opened by his widow, Yvonne Lady Cochrane. The exhibition, held under the auspices of His Worship the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Senator Alexis Fitz-Gerald in the Central Jafet Memorial Library was opened by H.E. the A mba s sad 0 r of Ire I and. The exh i b i ti on, assemb led, designed and edited by Professor Bushrui, consists of 200 photographs of aspects of Joyce's life and of the Dublin of his time. As the contribution of Lebanon and the Arab world to Ireland's own festivities, the exhibition will be transferred to Dublin and open the r e n ext JLI1e 16. Six Centenary lectures were de livered during the four-day program: The Literary Heritage of Ireland, by H.E. Gearoid 0 Clerigh, Ambassador of Ireland in Lebanon; An Introduction to James Joyce, (in Arabic) by Professor Bushrui; A Turnip for the Books: A Centenary Tribute to James Joyce, by Professor David Norris, of Trinity College, Dublin; James Joyce: An Irish
Point of View, by Professor Augustine Martin, of University College, Dublin; "Ulysses" and the Human Problem, by Professor Bernard Benstock, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; The Achievement of James ,Joyce, by Professor Maurice Harmon, of University College, Dublin. A panel discussion, James Joyce: A Hundred Years after, had Professors Benstock and Bushrui for moderators.
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University, Mbabane, Swaziland. Dr. Henderson's duties while there will consist of developing the curricula for agricultural engineering and mechanization programs, outlining courses and developing teaching materials. In addition he will be doing demonstrational teaching. Dr. Henderson began his assignment with a week of briefing at FAa Headquarters in Rome, after which he and Mrs. Henderson left for Swaziland. Dr. Musa Nimah is now serving as Chairman of the S.I.M. department and during Dr. Henderson's absence, his academic duties have been assumed by Dr. Alexander Bartosik, Visiting Professor of Mechanization. In December, Dr. Henderson attended the winter meeting of the American, Society of Agricultural Engineers in Chicago. He presented a paper on "Comparison of Private Owned and Government Owned Tractor Operational Costs in Jordan". The conference marked the inauguration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Society. The theme of this co mmemorative year is Food, Fiber and the Future. While at the conference, Dr. Henderson attended meetings of two working committees of which he is a member and conducted interviews during the personnel session.
The Office of Extension Programs, Division 'of Education and Extension Programs (DEEP), has announced a variety of special courses and programs for the period March-June, 1982. The i r purpose is to pro vi de opportunities for adults of different interests to continue their professional development and" enhance personal growth through further study. The Office of Extension Programs is keen to provide continuing and adult education to the community. Students enrolled in Extension courses are entitled to use reading facilities at the Central Jafet Memorial Library. Books may also be borrowed in accordance with library regulations covering Extension students, and upon payment of a refundable deposit of LL 300. Five certificate programs are offered: Essentials of Business Certificate: An eight-course program consisting of principles of accounting, management, marketing, personnel administration and hum a n relations, finance, statistics, money and banking, and managerial economics. Accounting Studies Certificate: F 0 u r courses offered over a period of two years - one course per semester: principles of accou nti ng I a nd II, cost accounting, and control and aUditing. Computer Programming Certificate: Six courses - two in informatics and mathematics (CP1-CP2) , two in business
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established by Mr. James R. Jewett in 1929. The previous incumbents were Professor Anis Khoury AI-Makdisi, from 1930 to 1949, and Professor Jibrail Jabbur, from 1949 to 1972. "As I make this appointment," Dean Salem wrote to Professor Hawi, "I know that you will carryon the traditions of scholarly endeavor established by your two predecessors in the Chair." Dean Salem quoted Mr. Jewett as saying in a letter to President Bayard Dodge in 1929 " ... a strong Department of Arabic will in itself be a distinct asset for the University." Dean Salem added saying: "What Mr. Jewett felt to be true in 1929 is equally true over a half century later; and I know that your appointment as Jewett Professor of Arabic is a recognition of your contribution to the strength of the Arabic department in the past, and a recognition that you will conti n ue to be a pillar of strength for the Department and the University in the future."
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programming and applications (CP3-CP4l, and two in scientific programming and applications (CP5-CP6). Certificate in Computing Systems I: Four courses in information science, and two courses in quantitative methods. Commercial and Fine Arts Certificates: Courses offered in this program include painting, life drawing, printmaking, lithography, ceramics, graphic design, and advertising art. The Special Courses include English and business English, translation, French, Spanish, colloquial and literary Arabic for beginners, personal and home co m p u ters, environmental program for youth, a psycho-anthropological inquiry, automobile diagnosis for mechanical failures, mass media and society, basic health education, bases of business law, labor legislation in the Lebanese and comparative laws, and other courses. DEEP includes the Department of Education, the Sci e n c e and Mathematics Education Center (SMEC), the Office of Tests and Measurements (OTM), the University Orientation Program (UOP), and the Office of Extension Programs.
CARICATURE AND COMIC ART CLUB CABINET The following have been elected members of the new cabinet of the Caricature anc::f Comic Art Club, effective 1 April: Sari H. Salibi, Muhamed Hamaouieh - coordinators Usama Abi Mirshed - president Miss Rula Jamil - vice-president Marwan Tabarani - treasurer Elie Nahas - secretary Shadi Dahir - member-at-Iarge The Club is planning a big exh i biti on of cartoons next April.