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Outlook The American University of Beirut

Vol. XLIII, No. 5

| Tuesday, Oct 26, 2010 | The Independent Student Publication Since 1949

Social Club Soap Soccer Turns Wednesdays at AUB Fun

The Former Mongolian President at AUB

Giovanny Reaidi Staff Writer

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n Thursday October 21, 2010, Mongolian Former President Nambaryn Enkhbayar visited AUB’s campus to give a lecture titled “History of Mongolia and Topics related to International Politics and Economy.” As a Professor, Enkhbayar is described by Theodor Hanf to have come from a wide experience in academia, having received his education in Leeds, Russia, and Mongolia. Enkhbayar later served as a minister in the Mongolian parliament, a minister of culture, and of course, the president of Mongolia. After sharing his feelings about AUB, Enkhbayar presented details about the geography of Mongolia, saying that being strategically situated in between Russia and China, it is quite conspicuous amongst Korea, Japan, ChiCampus News Arts & Culture Spotlight Out Loud

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na, Russia and Kazakhstan. Mongolia is a large country, about 1,564,115.75 km2 in total, but comparing it with its neighbours, it is relatively small, yet rich and interesting. Of the most renowned of Mongolian men was Jenghis Khan, who expanded the empire from Korea to the mideteranian. Only shortly after his death however, his empire was divided to small size empires and conquered by Chinese tribes, who after taking over Mongolia, inherited the Mongolian alphabets. In 1911 Mongolia gained its independence from China however only legally so by 1921. In 1917 the Russian revolution was on fire and they were eager to expand their revolution around, so the Mongolians requested the help of the Russians to fight off the Chinese which continued on page 4

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UBites cannot seem to get enough of soccer football and, with the weather’s help, everyone was looking to a friendly match in the blistering sun, covered in cool, soapy water on Wednesday, October 20. Fifteen AUB teams and an LAU team competed for the prizes up for grabs: free open wings and beer for all five team members of the winning team at Treesome, Gemmayzeh. The runners-up also got a Dunkin Donuts voucher for free coffee and donuts over a five day period. Due to popular demand, a friendly girls-on-guys match opened the tournament, much to the crowd’s delight. Naji Ibrahim and Roy Chaaya, AUB’s official Soap Soccer commentators cheered on the participants and spectators till it was time for class.

Joe Kanaan and myself carried on the commentating torch, until the fun and music was far too loud for classes to proceed and the organizers had to turn the volume down. Soap soccer has become the unofficial AUB pastime after two tournaments being hosted in the same week, with immense success. Dozens of students witnessed the players fall on top of each other,

slide out of the pool and even watched the field deflate as Lebanon’s infamous electricity went out at 3:00pm. Loud music, hot weather and the Social Club trademark atmosphere made this event one to remember after the resounding success of the club’s ‘Welcome Back Party.’ We can only anticipate what the club has in store next!

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CCECS and Beeatoona Partnership Raises Awareness on E-Wastes

Tala Kardas Staff Writer

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nvironmental issues have become a concern worldwide and the case is no different at AUB. This was demonstrated by the E-waste Awareness Seminar and Collection Day held on Wednesday, October 19 in Bathish Auditorium, as part of the first EDay in Lebanon. This event, which was under the patronage of the Minister of Environment, Mr. Moham-

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mad Rahal, was organized by the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS), Beeatoona, and the Environmental Club. As explained in the presentation given by Mrs. Nadine Haddad from Beeatoona, Ewastes are any object containing an electronic board or battery, which have to be disposed because they do not respond to the current demands. They are harmful to both the environment and human health because

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they contain lead, mercury, and chromium (among others), which have proven toxic effects. With the advent of technology, these materials are abundant and therefore must be handled in a specified manner in order to reduce their adverse effects. As Haddad stated, in Lebanon, these wastes are either disposed of in landfills or are burned in the open, especially in rural areas, leading to contamination of natural recontinued on page 3

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