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Vol. XLIII, No. 24

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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AUB holds fair for high school students.

AUB student Mohamad S. Dimashkieh immortalized with scholarship fund of ‘hope’ Mohammad Yaghi Staff Writer

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ohamad S. Dimashkieh will be deeply missed but not forgotten, thanks to his family who are now establishing the Mohamad S. Dimashkieh Endowed Scholarship Fund at the American University of Beirut in his memory. This scholarship will go towards helping students complete their education at the Olayan School of Business.

Fouad Badaoui Senior Staff Writer As they represent their alma mater in international competitions and compete with other universities, AUB varsity teams find it impossible to travel without having to pay excessively large sums of money from their own pockets, and many students are finding it hard to keep up financially. In an email interview with Outlook, Director of Athletics Ghaleb Halimi said that, with the exception of some special events that get sponsorships, most of the Athletics Department’s funding is an annual budget. Halimi admitted that some activities are “unfor-

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‘The 24 th Annual Islamic Book Fair’ and Sheikh Amin Al-Kurdi lecture

A special person loved by many, passed away on January 14, 2011 because of a tragic car accident. Dimashkieh joined AUB in 2007 and would have graduated this year from the OSB. Two of Dimashkieh’s close friends were approached to comment on their friend, however wished to remain anonymous in symbolizing that their sentiments towards Dimashkieh are shared by all those who knew

The Insight Club invites to the “24th Annual Islamic Book Fair” which will run from Wednesday April 13 up until Thursday April 21 between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at West Hall, Mahmoud Malhas Common Room.

tunately not funded enough, including foreign travel.” This year, his department plans on sending 15 varsity teams abroad with an allocated budget of no more than $35,000 and the expectation that student athletes will come up with the rest. “With the available budget we send the maximum number of students with fixed numbers in each team with a higher cost on the individual athletes,” said Halimi. A guideline in the Student-Athlete Handbook reads as follows: “While student-participants need to assist in payment of some trip expenses, every attempt must be made to continued on page 4

Sheikh Amin Al-Kurdi will be opening the fair and giving a lecture on April 12 at 6:00 p.m.

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Varsity sports teams: Representing AUB on a shoestring budget

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Engaging Change in the Middle East, Reflections on Regional Transformation panel discussion Caterina Belardi Staff Writer

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ngaging Change in the Middle East”; this was the chorus of the panel that gathered Thursday April 6th in Bathish Auditorium, as the audience and speakers reflected on the recent regional transformations in the Arab World. AUB’s Provost Ahmad Dallal, also sponsor of the event, opened the floor explaining how “at AUB, as a thriving and resilient institution as it is, we have the duty to think and try to understand what is happening around us.” Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public and Internation-

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al Affairs (IFI), emphasized how the hunger for change in the region was fueled by “the humiliation of the Arab citizen and the deligitimizai-

tion of the Arab State,” making this a crucial moment for Arab history. He referred to continued on page 4

AUB 5th annual Research Day Featuring oral presentations and poster sessions in basic science and clinical research! All members of the AUB community and particularly medical students, graduate students, post-doctoral research fellows and residents or interns belonging to a research team are invited to attend the 5th annual Research Day to be held this Saturday, April16 at the Issam Fares Hall of the American University of Beirut from 8:30 a.m. and up until 2:00 p.m.

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