The Internet and Donations…

Internet is the secret key for spreading any word, story, or even request. In wartime, connections are cut in many countries and no one can know anything about this country and what is happening for their habitats and the enemy themselves... To be more realistic, journalists and reporters who take photos and report videos are the only source for a country like Palestine, Darfur, or Iraq...
That was before the appearance of the Internet and its applications that permit all the world follow the current events and the state theses countries have reached to...
One of the things that are mostly affected by the Internet and the wireless connections is the donations and the aid the Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or the voluntarily institutions provide for the countries in wartime and the ones under sever situations like drought, famines, and natural disasters.
However, there are many situations that could result in an adversely fruits. We all know how Darfur is affected with war and how their people got hurt and all countries money spent ignoring health, education, and many important services. With all these crises, we can find that the aids they receive are concentrating on the cloths and they are in a bad need for the primitive needs…
Sometimes, when we miss general information about certain population or special customs, our help can’t benefit their needs and consequently, donations won’t be considered useful. Aids that are brought for the Asians are all cloths and mostly jeans trousers. For the general knowledge, Asians don’t wear jeans as most of them have custom cloths. In addition, most of them are short and the exported trousers were the long ones. This misunderstanding can be translated into missing in information resulted from the less communication contacts, or may be more intelligence came from the helpful institutions that make them export the extra products they don’t need…
I think in all cases, the missing of connections and awareness networks make this huge gap…

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Parking is one pack take it or suffer

This is a printed article for the problem that faces the students, faculty, and visitors in parking inthe new campus

EGYPT-THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO-Parking expresses big issue between students, faculty, and stuff which pushes the administration to lower the fees from 3,000 LE to 1,500 LE per year.

Transportation in AUC is permitted through buses also with the cooperation of Family Transport company, but students are still insisting to take their cars. “I prefer my car as I finish my class early and bus schedule is very late and doesn’t suitable me,” Lara said.

In response to that the Student Union presented the student forum to the administration and they succeed to solve the problem by changing the time to fit the classes in Ramadan as from 2:15 to 2:45 and after Ramadan, there will be buses departing almost every hour or half an hour. But the students still taking their cars and they face great problems even in parking or the regulations.

“My major problem in the first week in the new campus was the parking and finding classes, but new it returned to the fees of parking,” El Shamy, senior student, said. Parking is still one of the transportation problems in AUC despite the good new about lowering the fees.

“For this year only, the administration will reduce the parking fees by 50 percent for faculty, staff and students…,” President Arnold said. This was a good news for the whole AUC, but the responds were expresses what’s the planning after this year. “Another petition will reduce the fees to the next year also, believe me,” Manar, junior political science student, said.

Away from the main problem for many students, there are now available parking lots. According to official AUC website “Parking at AUC”, “There are 1,500 parking spaces provided across twelve different lots… 150 parking spaces in a visitors only lot… an additional 500 parking spaces will be built…” and the lack of parking spaces isn’t a good reason to violate AUC trafficking regulations.

The office of Parking and Transportation (OPT) put a list of violation and parking policies. Speeding, Careless driving, Blocking driveways, unauthorized parking, and any property damage can cost 220 LE only for three times. After more than three violating times parking permit will be suspended.

Regarding to some driving regulation of OPT, “…the speed limit on campus streets, driveways and parking lots is 25 km per hour. Luckily, the visitors have a good chance to park their cars as a short-time and in the special events the university held.

Not only visitors are permitted to park safely, but also AUC society are safely considered. “The Parking Office reserves the right to cancel a parking permits at any time in response to operating a vehicle on campus in a manner that present a danger to members of the AUC community”.

Parking permits will be in the form of ‘hanging tag’ that is working by radio identification chips. This card will be verified when the car pass through the electronic gate that permit parking in AUC. And this license will begin on Sunday, September 28th, 2008.

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Virtual Reality... Web 3.0

Everything created in our day to day life is resulted form a human special needs. When the primary human being felt hungry and he is in a bad need to eat anything, he thought materials and pins to bit the rabbit and shot the bird. When the United States defense department felt that there is a serious danger on sending its messages and aids during wartime, it began thinking in something else for communication other than telegram and the traditional equipments, so it created the Internet. In fact, the Internet was very old and following very aged systems, but it improved by the days to reach us with its shape and structure. As the human interests developed and they became more aware with the world’s news and the globalization phenomena made the world as a small village, they began to ask for more access to information. Books became the old way of getting the information and it is now considered the most interesting thing for the old, it isn’t my opinion at all as I am one of books’ fans but that what my friends tell me about books. These young want the animated pictures and the updated videos from everywhere. They want the Interactive Internet. As a result, web 2.0 appeared as the new technology that make youth able to play video games, the adult are able to follow up which president will catch up with a pair of shoes in his head first and who will follow matrix movement!!! The businessmen can follow their money banking and the stock… Every one can use the Internet to follow up with his work, entertainment, and education. However, any request is being put on the line, we need something to interact with us synchronously and give us the solution virtually; we need Web 3.0
It is still in progress till we reach a virtual achievement in making you set on your computer having your head wearing and see yourself with your body doing your matrix in your own life, only with the people who will wear there electronic heads with you…We want to do as Laurence Fishburne in his science fiction Matrix film did and the scientists are working to introduce us to the Virtual Reality: Web 3.0…

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Two Days are Enough

This is a printed atricle shows that students tend to schedule their class times only on two days, becasue the amount of problems they still face in moving to the new campus is very intorable.

EGYPT, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, SEP. 15, Students are suffering the first important right for going to their university. “I have a big problem in transportation outside and inside AUC even in parking or finding my classes”, freshman Biology student said.

Many students are going to university by their cars which make them in a bad need for available parking places. “The parking is the problem. The fees are too much”, sophomore student said. The administration puts about 3000 LE per year to encourage students to take the bus, but many complains stood to change this case.

“I had a bad experience in waiting 6:30 shuttle which get filled and I lost the first class”, screaming from a bus victim waiting to go to AUC. That is one example of many who have miserable incidents in their first week in university. Not only the late and unorganized bus time, but also the departure time is uncomfortable. “I finish my classes at 12 pm, so why I should wait till 2:15 bus?”, freshman student said.

Students from other hotels are going mad by their bus schedule. “I want to go to Zamalek as I tent to study downstairs, but there isn’t any buses to go with”, junior student said. Everything is changed in students’ life and adaptation will be their process.

Some students tend to have only two days working and the rest in home, but we still find others are comforted by their moving to the new campus. Transportation to the new campus has many problems and we live in a changeable world every day new inputs, so wait and see.
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Large distances cause accidents

This is a printed atricle written for the difficults the AUCians face as moving to the new campus in El Katameya...

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO (AUC)-Wide-spread spaces in AUC new campus became more tired than beneficial and disabilities students suffer a lot.

The new campus is the gift the president David Arnold gave his students before leaving, but it didn’t get admired many of them.

“Yesterday, I went to the old campus and I felt much more comfortable,” says Omar Khedr, Business student last y ear in the university. “Here, it’s all about the image, but in the old campus they’re really trying to teach their students something”.

The old campus was very small and all classes are near each other except for the Falaki, said Mohamed Khalil, economics student. However, this campus is designed for the sack of student health care.

Specialists in AUC taking for EGYPT TODAY magazine, “the campus is orientated to take advantage of the prevailing north-easterly wind”. That was the aim of distant spaces and huge areas along the new campus compared with the historical one.

In addition to 27 fountains whose pools serve to cool the air and university gardens are the main sources for fresh air in this huge desert with 260-acre plot, EGYPT TODAY.

This is a good aim for the large distance between buildings, but these fountains were also the main cause of serious accidents. “I was walking beside the fountain and my leg misbalanced and I fall in the pool”, Mira Hassan Engineering student. “I got absence for a week as my leg gets broken”.

One accident of many we saw just due to getting proud of the new design of the new campus and the early transporting from the old.

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