tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491874048251592212024-03-12T16:06:39.568-07:00We Will Not Pay A PennyThe Student Voice campaign against the AUI-S administration's decision to charge $400 for books and dormsStudent Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-16638481177701479532010-10-07T01:55:00.000-07:002010-10-07T01:55:27.462-07:00Student Voice Poll: Students are more into not paying the $400.<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The result of the last Students voice reveals that most of the voters are against the $400 required by AUI-S for books and dorms. <br />
Question of the poll was, “Should AUI-S students pay the $400 for books and dorms”. Each week Student posts a question online to see how students respond. The question sourced from the last change in the AUI-S payment policy. </span></div><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">This step of the university has been considered by most of the students as unlawful quest.<br />
52 voters participated in the poll and 41 or (78%) of them say that they will not pay the money, while 8 or (15%) of the voters are ready to pay the money and still (5%) is not sure. It is worthy to mention that the decision raises a disagreement voice among students, as they think they don’t have to pay for the books or dorms tow times. The results of the poll, once again, show the illogicality of the AUI-S’s proposition. </div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Furthermore, a group of AUI-S students started “We Will Not Pay a Penny” campaign to stop implementing the imposed $400. Therefore, students are advised to share the group actively as if one has no problem in paying the money many others have to suffer and bear unbearable conditions.</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"></span></div></span>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-8277432449650970752010-10-06T14:06:00.000-07:002010-10-06T14:41:06.129-07:00Back to Page 37 From the Academic Catalogue of the American University of Iraq-Suliamani<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 17pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">by</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 17pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Bahman Abdulrahman</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div align="left" dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="margin: auto auto auto 12pt; mso-cellspacing: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Universities are striving to take steps forward in accordance to the rules they are founded upon. Whereas, for most, enduring these rules is the measure of triumph and a gentle guidance for future, replacing them, for a few, is a clear indication of failure.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="more"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Logical principals of an epoch may fit future eras with no retouching. The American University of Iraq- Sulaimani, in a matter of three years has not step in line with its fundamental polices. Perchance, the university’s recent decree illustrates this point evidently. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The university, ironically, asks for an extra $400 for books and dorms which is apparently against what the university is built on and asked before. It may seem normal for some, yet, for the rest, it’s a question of enduring or leaving the university. Hitherto, it appears like husbands who want to get laid through seductive gestures, this may work for some but not always for all. The university, on one hand, is not ready to give any explanations and it expresses a grave need of money. Meanwhile, it, on the other hand, is against the university’s Financial Regulations. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">AUI-S in The Academic Catalogue, page37 addressed student studying payments in a moderately understandable manner and stated, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">AUI-S admits only full-time undergraduate students. Tuition and Fees for the 2009-2010 academic year are as follows:</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.25pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">·</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tuition: $4,500/semester </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.25pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">·</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Books: $400/semester </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 2.25pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">·</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Fees: $ 100/semester ( computer lab, IDs, English placement test) </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5.25pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">·</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 7pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><i><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Total: $5,000/semester </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5.25pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5.25pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I believe it’s time to ask, what is the essence of this illogical quest? Why AUI-S does not want to admit its lacing cash and its prior huge money</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> s</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">quandering? Numbers above should evidently testify in opposition to the newly imposed sum for the books or dorms. Last year or years before, AUI-S, each semester, charges students $5000 including $400 for books. I would like to ask why more $200? If last year the real price of the books with tremendous profit costs students $400 (per-semester), why from now on extra $200? Book contends increased or their shipping prices doubled? While the university is into increasing tuition fees, students must understand the university paces. EWPLY students, for example, must pay $4200 (per-semester) as the new price of the provided books is $200 annually. Meanwhile, the new quest is not only inacceptable, it raise a more practical question. Academic students, as far as I am informed, don’t have English placement test in any forms, why should they pay $100 for English placement tests? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5.25pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 5.25pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">All expensive goods or services are not labeled with workability. While, neither collages with high prices are signed with success, nor less priced collages end with failure. If, which is seemed to be an accurate perception, AUI-S is keen on doubling tuition fees, the university must reconsider its stand. The American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, with the tuition fees of Harvard is still AUI-S. AUI-S should not take steps that cost only student and turning irresponsible eye to the faults. It clears that the university need solid based on realty polices not cash, as money can be gained easily but erecting pillars need commonsensical steps. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-34817525604294519172010-10-06T13:23:00.000-07:002010-10-06T14:32:13.804-07:00"We Will Not Pay A Penny" campaign started moving<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAoNPBpN9EdTmikm00iHvy6vjTUJB3EYwAeqGOuU5LOcyfGfUILuBe2DQdKh3_WId8dR6qdKNyfOq1DmpQZB4-puYKYEKEoOnv8Oot6CAf4BWF4YjXevOOJEzu7nLjoGrCai2D1V10w8g/s1600/no-penny-150x150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAoNPBpN9EdTmikm00iHvy6vjTUJB3EYwAeqGOuU5LOcyfGfUILuBe2DQdKh3_WId8dR6qdKNyfOq1DmpQZB4-puYKYEKEoOnv8Oot6CAf4BWF4YjXevOOJEzu7nLjoGrCai2D1V10w8g/s1600/no-penny-150x150.jpg" /></a>Today, Wednesday Oct 6th, celebrating with the last group of the EWPLI level four students, “We Will Not Pay a Penny “complain activists began the first move toward not paying the $400 imposed by AUI-S.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="more"></a> While most students finished their last classes in The English Writing Program and Language Institute (EWPLI), in joy and gratefulness welcomed the campaigners. <br />
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<a name='more'></a>Together with the activists, the students collected signatures. Activists unclouded the facts and asked students for support with their cause, which is clearly to be for the sake of students and only from the students. Campaigners, rebut rumors and accusing them with being distractive. Also, campaigners insisted on logical, lawful, and respectful ways in their march. Moreover, the campaign will continue and further formal announcement is expected to be published until the university understands its illogical pursuit. Campaigners see their success in the students’ support therefore they plainly ask students to maintain helping them. </div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: #fefdfa; direction: ltr; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
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</div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-62227817508825256992010-10-04T04:41:00.000-07:002010-10-04T05:07:58.815-07:00AUI-S:This is not what We came for.<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">Hemn Muhammed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> 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. </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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$.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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.</span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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. </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">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. </span><br />
</div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-83536996430013545752010-10-03T22:38:00.000-07:002010-10-03T22:38:33.491-07:00AUI-S Asks Students to Buy Their Books in the BookstoreAccording to an e-mail sent out by Paul Craft, Deputy to the Provost, AUI-S students will not be given books in the classes. They should go and buy the books from the AUI-S bookstore instead. <br />
The e-mail says, <br />
"Your textbooks will NOT be distributed in class this year by your professor, as they were last year.<br />
Instead, your textbooks will be available ONLY through the AUI-S Bookstore. The Bookstore is located in CABIN 36."<br />
Paul Craft also asks students to bring $100 with them while coming to the bookstore. <br />
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We will not Pay a Penny campaign asks students not to give the money and wait until the issue is solved. The students' popular demand is not to give this new tuition which is nothing but a preface to more and more money.Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-39033601619721084942010-09-26T04:44:00.000-07:002010-09-26T04:47:41.199-07:00After the $400, What is Next?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJz4JtNXKouwuOEGvIpeFYgQV2l5IpvPrn22YN_-EeX2627tE85HL_FIk20N9EN4W3NQ7f6mAU0z4QQq0KqJLs6hLCH1qD44suODwz2mOk45oFdhe-LFqgP6cMieXkr5NvmXP8OdeIWc/s1600/21+5+2010.+Holly+Komalayatee+Slemani.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJz4JtNXKouwuOEGvIpeFYgQV2l5IpvPrn22YN_-EeX2627tE85HL_FIk20N9EN4W3NQ7f6mAU0z4QQq0KqJLs6hLCH1qD44suODwz2mOk45oFdhe-LFqgP6cMieXkr5NvmXP8OdeIWc/s200/21+5+2010.+Holly+Komalayatee+Slemani.JPG" width="159" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">by<strong> Muhammad Chawsawa </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">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.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"> In fact, having taken out the entire-summer loan to pay for the AUI-S’s last tuition, I was thrilled with my forthcoming academic year. Unfortunately, AUI-S capriciously put me in agony of suspense when I got a couple of calls from some college friends that we are supposed to pay $400 for <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">both</span> the dorms and books. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">It was the most devastating news, and we were all bored silly by that unpredictable decision. Since no one would expect that before, we have the right to ask what the AUI-S’s next unexpected plans or decisions would be. Some of them are clear and were revealed by what the AUI-S has already done. The obligation of paying the $400 for the dorms and books is a palpable example to declare the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%;">unlawfully demanding money with menaces</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; unicode-bidi: embed;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">Although it's exceedingly difficult to accurately find the right words to express this demoralizing decision, on the behalf of the most AUI-S-dorm students, I'm pleased to divulge some AUI-S surreptitious future schemes! We don’t need to have another lesson because we can plainly perceive what the AUI-S is driving at. By this strange quirk, we can be able to understand that a day will come when we will be forced to pay for the electricity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">Within this framework, we will also be obliged to pay for the water we use to take a shower, do a laundry, and even to wash our disgusting socks. To become worse, the price of the electricity and water would be expensive because WE ARE THE AUI-S STUDENTS. It's worth mentioning that the AUI-S students are the elite, specifically those who live at the dorms!!! So, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">if you don’t pretend that you don’t mind,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">no one should be extremely eager to know what is going to happen because everything is clear. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We will be charged to pay for the 100-papers we print out every month as well. We should, guys, strongly complain that this kind of decisions is useless and frustrated. It aggravates our situation, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we remain as silent as the graves any more, we might also be forced to pay for the transportations, the water we drink at the university, the court, the internet, and the ink of the printers. Then who will put us out of our misery??? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Muhammad Chawsawa is an International Studies and Political Science freshman at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani </span></div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-15890889578143693302010-09-23T04:53:00.000-07:002010-09-23T04:59:00.078-07:00Here is My Penny…!<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">By <strong>Dara Ali</strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOu0bMPMKAmvsSTgdnGtsIVeEyr-kBYrLcjTkm9d2g702nt6mvxyKMrffuzIkvUAIPab3x8Ru2P5mP4EWDfUqKZQlgqYTKgvqG4SNlRcwZa__QPkUMt_mb6R-VMdiS-9neHyPVFzJA8LI/s1600/12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOu0bMPMKAmvsSTgdnGtsIVeEyr-kBYrLcjTkm9d2g702nt6mvxyKMrffuzIkvUAIPab3x8Ru2P5mP4EWDfUqKZQlgqYTKgvqG4SNlRcwZa__QPkUMt_mb6R-VMdiS-9neHyPVFzJA8LI/s1600/12.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">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. </span></div><a name='more'></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: large;">Why do students need to pay this money?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Here are some possible answers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The first one, as it is obvious for all of us, it might be useful for solving the financial problems that AUI-S is facing now. But can a very limited amount of money, from poor students, solve AUI-S’s financial problems? If so, why does AUI-S push poor students to pay more money when they are already paying their tuition fees? Don’t you think it brings distinct problems for those families that barely can afford to pay for their children’s education?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The second is that the AUI-S officials might have thought about new methods to push students to work to connect them to their natural environment of hard working. If it is, without a doubt, it might be constructive. But what about the students who had already been supposed to work to afford their tuition fees? Will it help them? Or make them suffer because they cannot work more despite the very high costs of living in Sulaimani? Can AUI-S find another way to help its students to work hard and become real students? I believe it can!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: large; line-height: 200%;">What do students need to do?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">As a part of this matter, all students, who live in the dorms, should stand together and ask to stop such a request.<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">More to the point, this campaign will be a very good method to stop something which seems rare by all accounts. Also, I think this is exactly what needs to be done by students for now. Let’s all ask to stop it. It is the time! I </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">unquestionably</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> agree and support this campaign because I feel that the decision of asking money for dorms and books is unfair. For some students, of course, the $400 is only a small amount of money. For some, however, besides paying tuition fees, these additional fees may have devastating consequences.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">* Dara Ali is an International Studies at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-28078419419903456042010-09-20T00:19:00.000-07:002010-10-01T05:57:22.844-07:00When you ask me to .........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqmJnu-7hFH_zAS2ozrqPjCDuAsQhwvmJSzaI3lC8k4JD7fjEuP1ycmUxwn-wc8K_e82ahwLT27x9DwRDBD-4cx59MG4T83b3a3TnkE7G2Zx6p2DAiBI4Hh1mOo4YN3UUjCAI306xGB4/s1600/ERFAN.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbqmJnu-7hFH_zAS2ozrqPjCDuAsQhwvmJSzaI3lC8k4JD7fjEuP1ycmUxwn-wc8K_e82ahwLT27x9DwRDBD-4cx59MG4T83b3a3TnkE7G2Zx6p2DAiBI4Hh1mOo4YN3UUjCAI306xGB4/s200/ERFAN.bmp" width="181" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br />
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">An open letter to Dear AUI-S!</span></b></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By Afan Osman Halabja</span></b> </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">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. </span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The enthusiasm and the hope for the university have created a real educational environment at the campus which the newcomers were amazed rapidly. That is all because AUI-S always asked us to do the best. When they asked me to study hard, I did not just study hard, but I also encouraged all my </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> mates to do so. </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dear AUI-S, when you ask me not to cheat, I will prepare myself to make everybody hate cheating. I will have plans to ban the cheating at the university, and I will work harder than you do for that. It is us who obey and practice all your new policies. When you ask me not to plagiarize, I will have articles telling the students such a scandal to plagiarize. It is us who help the university how to ban it. Yes, we will keep the good job, and we never regret. When you ask me to work hard, I will work harder than you expect. Whatever you have asked me, I have done for you. This is my promise not just for one day but forever. </span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But my dear AUI-S, if you ask me to pay hundreds of dollars to have a book or to live at a dorm, how can I follow your orders? Don't you know that I have to go and find a job to pay that money? Do you want me to study hard, to do my best at AUI-S, to develop the university, to make it famous, to have activities inside the university, or you want me to work for money? Which one? Just be the judge. How can a student study to get 3 points per semester and work at the same time? Do you think that living at a dorm, far from everybody is so easy and funny that we should pay for it? Why won't you come and listen to hundreds of sad stories out there at the dorms from the students coming from the distant cities instead of asking hundreds of dollars?!. Psychologically the new policy will have bad and penitent impact on the university guys.</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dear university, if you can't give us a book, so how can you ask us to study hard? You don't give us a book freely, so how can you ask us to volunteer ourselves to develop our best university. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No, this time you are not right, so we are not supposed to follow you. This time you need us to help you when you make such a decision. Dear AUI-S, be informed you are located in Kurdistan, Iraq. You absolutely know about the situation here, so you don't have to be very strict to ask that amount of money. We are sorry because we can't pay the money. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span dir="ltr"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"></div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-81437379290136929922010-09-18T14:54:00.000-07:002010-10-01T04:18:21.447-07:00We MUST not pay $1 for the books or the dorms<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by</span></b></em><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Afan Osman</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background: white; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">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. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">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. </span></span></div></div><a name='more'></a><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Students from different devastated parts of the country have come to Sulaimani to study at AUI-S. Their destroyed cities have no advanced universities to study, but all they have is AUI-S. Such a sad and unbelievable story it is to live in a poor country and pay thousands of dollars to study. What do they think of us? This is Kurdistan, and this is Iraq. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">How is it possible for a poor student, who does not have a job, to pay $400? Who will agree to receive money from those orphans whose fathers were killed at Iraqi wars or at the Civil War?! How does a humanitarian think of getting money from those students who lost all of their childhood and life because of working for money or to buy new clothes for their schools? I don't know how a rich and millionaire government wants us to pay for a dorm or some books? This government is able to provide the money for all of us. We are Kurdistani or Iraqi students, and we have the right to be at the government dorms and pay no money for the school stuff. I blame both the university and KRG or the Central Government to ask us for that money. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">It is an unbelievable and unfair requirement. We need to talk with both AUI-S and KRG or Iraqi Government to solve this new issue. That is not just because we can't pay the money, but it is also for how we can solve our problems. That is not just because we are Iraqis or Kurdistanis, but it is also the way we can stop the corruption in the future. That is not only because we are students, but it is also the way we should choose to stop anyone who wants to ask money from us. Last year I was thinking about a project to ask Dr. Barham to give some salary for the dorm students. Alas, this year he asks for that salary, and we are supposed to pay money. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">My dear AUI-S students, why don't we begin a campaign to refuse to pay the money? We can change our country if we work for it today, so the campaign is our job now. Some of AUI-S students will meet both the university admission and KRG or Iraqi Government to ask them to regret and solve that issue. As it is said, "If not we, so who, and If not now, then when?" I hope we can all make succeed! </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Afan Osman is a Business Administration Freshman at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani. He is one of the managers of the We Will not Pay a Penny Campaign</span></b></div></div>Student Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349187404825159221.post-33887640767983782962010-09-18T07:14:00.000-07:002010-09-18T07:14:14.450-07:00We Will not Pay a Penny!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4V9GC53NIyGRh3zjseL0yRRuic8jWo7QxyCBQjaxCHmfGeMuFidov7UqHqUrzzpSMHsQJ16lUk7dCsO1sTUr2R035ioRebVtVbae695O3zNUpkqTq4rwHIuCXdKyw-klSd5t6hfAqeck/s1600/no-penny-150x150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4V9GC53NIyGRh3zjseL0yRRuic8jWo7QxyCBQjaxCHmfGeMuFidov7UqHqUrzzpSMHsQJ16lUk7dCsO1sTUr2R035ioRebVtVbae695O3zNUpkqTq4rwHIuCXdKyw-klSd5t6hfAqeck/s320/no-penny-150x150.jpg" /></a></div>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. <br />
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!<br />
$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. <br />
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. <br />
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. <br />
The more students join the campaign, the stronger our will becomes...<br />
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We will not pay a penny campaignStudent Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10742885744283848055noreply@blogger.com0