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VUESDAY OL 5. 2012 T , MNAY OL. XLI, XLIV , ON.8, O 4 VTOL . XLIV, NO. 22 1, 2011 UESDAY , NOVEMBER

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AUB Choir and Choral Society fills Assembly Hall Outlook Board As per every semester, the AUB Choir and Choral Society filled Assembly Hall with the melodious sounds of voice and instrument, captivating the audience with the classical works selected for the performance. This year’s concert, conducted by Dr. Thomas Kim and presented on May 7, featured works of Costanzo Festa, JeanPhilippe Rameau, Ludwig Senfl, and none other than Wolgang Amadeus Mozart. The night started off with AUB’s Ensemble Polyphonica taking the stage to bring to life Festa’s “Quis dabit oculis,” Rameau’s “Laboravi clamans,” and Senfl’s “Klein ist mein trost”. This smaller group of singers is composed of some of the choir’s most elite members who had to go through extra rounds of auditions in order to be selected. As Polyphonica stepped down and the choir began to file into position, the stage was slowly filled with members of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra who would be accompanying the choir on the night’s prime piece: Mozart’s “Requiem, KV 626”. However, before this classical wonder

began, the choir delighted the audience with a rendition of a similarly well-known Mozart piece, “Ave verum corpus, K618”. When the time came for the popularized funeral mass to be performed, a hush fell over the audience as Kim stressed the importance of complete silence for the entire piece. The first notes of the orchestra were heard as they carefully crept over pews to reach the ears of anxiously anticipating listeners. The sounds of the choir and orchestra were also met with the voices of the featured soloists: Reem Deeb, soprano, Yara Abu er-Rubb, mezzo-soprano, Rani Ayrouth, tenor, and Wadih Abi Raad, bass. A full fortyfive minutes later and audience members were bursting with applause. Of the performance as a whole, audience member Mira Daou expressed “the concert was great and the choir really gave it their all”; a view shared by many in the crowd. Overall, the night was one to remember in both the delivery and reception of beautiful music.

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Students protest against increased cafeteria prices Nerses Arslanian Staff Writer A group of students wearing predominantly white clothing took to protesting in front of the AUB cafeteria on Tuesday April 24, in response to increased prices of food and drinks. The following day, the number of those protesting grew substantially, most of them students in clubs who formally organized the protest with the consent of the Dean of the Student Affairs. It was clear that unlike Tuesday morning, the students on Wednesday were not wearing identical white shirts but clothing of different colors that distinguished one group of protesters from the others. One group went so far to display the name of their club on their shirts. The protest was initiated when students began noticing the increased prices on Monday. Mario Abou Zeid, the SRC VP, said that he got a call

from a student who wanted to organize a protest in front of the cafeteria as soon as possible. There was no delayed response from the different bodies of students as everyone responded to the increase of prices immediately and all called for action. Before anyone decided to orchestrate an organized protest, a few representatives of the student clubs, among them the president of the Social Club, Jade Dimien, approached the Dean of Student Affairs, Talal Nizameddin, to receive approval of the planned event. Stated Dean Nizameddin, “students have the right to protest for any reasonable cause on campus as long as it is conducted peacefully.” By doubling the price of water from 500L.L. to 1000L.L.the caterers gave the students reason enough to stage

an organized protest. This meant that students had the right to be outraged and that the display of a demonstration against the cafeteria is well warranted within AUB premises. The crowd of students sitting on the steps of the cafeteria on Tuesday was fair in size with students holding square cut pieces of cardboard with slogans. They chanted in unison without the aid of a megaphone. Nevertheless they attracted considerable attention from people all around campus and some students even joined the group of protesters. All in all, it was a peaceful protest with no heated words or pulled punches, just the participation of conscientious members of the AUB community fighting for the same cause. The next day saw a larger crowd, so large that the path between the cafeteria and the “Zoo” was

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