AUI-S:This is not what We came for.

by Hemn Muhammed

As a citizen who lives in Suli, I am aware of a policy that most of the restaurants use to attract customers. This policy is so simple, and it is when a new restaurant opens, owners provide the best food, service, and good prices for the people, and when customers go there  think that the person has been sent by God to serve them. However, the restaurants provide good service until they will be sure that the reputations of the restaurants are good among people, and soon they start neglecting the quality of the food and services. Also, sometimes the Ministry of Health fines them because of the bad food and serving expired food. Now, you may ask me why I mention the situation about the restaurants.

 Let me answer. Well I have thought that people has this problem just with the restaurants, but I revealed that I was wrong, because this problem also can be seen in our university. When I came to AUIS the money that they offered for the students with financial aid was great, but after just one year when the reputation of the university filled all the places, the university changed its mind. The students who came last year to AUIS and left it after the university asked more money reveal a clear change in the university policy.

In the middle of the summer break, all the students got an email from the university that the university asked money for books and dorm. While, when the university opened its dorms, it did not asked for any money, and I ask if they had a plan to get money from the students who live in the dorms, why they did not ask any money last year, or why they did not mention anything about the money in the Hand Book.

Also, about the money for the books, the Hand Book mentions that the university will pay 400$ for books each semester, and the money will be taken from the 10000$ that students pay as tuition annually. The question is why they charged students 400$ while they told us that they need just 100$. Also, why we have to pay 100$ for books while some students can get the books free from their friends, and sometimes the money that the university pays for books is less than 100$.

The real worry for us, as students who came early to AUIS, is not the money but it is that the university did not mention anything when we came to AUIS. Also, the Hand Book never mentioned anything about that money, so how can the university charge us for that money.

I am afraid of the day, when the university will charge us for security, sitting in the garden, using stairs, checking books out of the library, being in the class room, using the air conditioners, and using the rest rooms.

I think it is not just about money, but it is also about the rules that the university everyday changes. What I think is the university should act with the students as they promised, and according to the Hand Book.