After the $400, What is Next?

by Muhammad Chawsawa

A lot of times, parties, and a number of occasions, most notably, the Ramadan Eid had elapsed, but, far away from my whole family, I have started a job in Sulaimani in the evenings. Even though I have to work at 5:00pm until 12:00am, I've taken to it like a duck to water because it is in a very salubrious part of the city.

Here is My Penny…!

By Dara Ali

A strange and so called “New Change” AUI-S has recently asked its residential halls students who are from other parts of Iraq to pay on extra $400 for books and dormitory fees for the year. This decision has been hard for many students to swallow while others struggle with the reality that they might no longer be able to afford their AUI-S education.

When you ask me to .........

      

An open letter to Dear AUI-S!

By Afan Osman Halabja    

Having heard the same stories over and over and over and being really tired of reading the same essays, almost all EWPLI instructors banned the students from writing about The American University of Iraq-Suliamani. Whenever it happened to the students to write about our most significant moments in our lives, abruptly we would write about our first days at AUI-S. The most repetitive reasons were, "AUI-S is the best university in the country to choose," "AUI-S applies the best education system," "Students at the other universities are like slaves, but we feel free here, "AUI-S is an international university," and so on! The instructors saw the same writing every semester, so some of them would not accept those essays anymore.

We MUST not pay $1 for the books or the dorms

by Afan Osman

As we all know that AUI-S has asked us to pay $400 for the dorms and the books. As a friend of all of you, I want to express my opinions if you guys let me. The amount of money is really very much for many of us, and it absolutely increases next year. As you guys know, this is Kurdistan, no so many people are rich enough to pay all of this money for studying.

This is not a developed or rich country, but it is a really poor region. There are many illiterate people in the country, and there are also many students who can't study at the universities because of money. We need to decrease the alliterated-people rate in the country not to increase the number of these people. And this new AUI-S policy will increase the number of those people now or in the future.

We Will not Pay a Penny!

We, as a group of American University of Iraq-Sulaimani students, announce "We will not pay a penny" campaign against AUI-S's decision to ask another $400 from the students.
Mnay of us came to this university being promised to get a full scholarship, and many others are already paying thousands of dollars to the administration. But AUI-S is not satsfied and asks for more money!
$400 might be an irrelevant number for some and small for some others, but it is an unfair amount of money for us. Thus, we will not pay a penny.
American University should understand that taking more money from the poor and low income students has never been a solution to the financial problems. There are many other way in which the university can increase its budget and AUI-S knows those ways very well.
We ask our fellow students to participate in the campaign and show their disagreement to the decision by giving zero penny to the finances department.
The more students join the campaign, the stronger our will becomes...


We will not pay a penny campaign