Egyptian Students and Professors Demand University Reforms

March 22, 2011, 12:30 pm

Demands for political and academic reform continue to create unrest at Egyptian universities, reports the daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm. Students and faculty members want the resignation of politically appointed deans, improvements in educational quality, and a decrease in the price of textbooks.

Academics have long complained of the fact that university presidents and deans here were vetted by security forces and often by members of former President Mubarak’s ruling party. In the media department of Cairo University, students are engaged in a hunger strike calling for their dean’s resignation.

Universities have begun replacing government security forces—which interfered in academic affairs and sometimes detained and attacked students—with private security.

And this month, universities appointed the first batch of teaching assistants in Egypt’s modern history to be selected without the approval of the security apparatus.

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schwerdt

And then there’s the model where the President chooses Deans on an interim basis (to see to what extent they will go along with his orders), and then boots them out (or they quit). I have had 5 Deans in 10 years. It’s absurd.
rameshraghuvanshi

Every man is unique so his sex life also unique.How one look to sex life it depend on his attitude..Freud also told after age of 50 that he did not need a sex.Modern science telling us that normal sexual life useful for healthy life.Some people enjoy sexual life in extreme old age some retired from sex at the age 60 how can we draw a conclusion for entire humanity
rhgt

Men who take Viagra are not in the position of those with diminished libido. Their libido may be very strong, but they are unable to perform. Viagra does nothing to increase libido.
jansand

As a young man my physiology was adequate but my acceptable targets were rarely complicit. As an 85 year old, whatever potent ammunition a pill may reload in my apparatus it is highly unlikely a target will appear vulnerable to my aims. Better to leave it to reminiscent dreams.
ibivi

What is the point of a medication that while it gives you an erection which may last for 4 hours it may also make you deaf and blind? This part of their ad makes me roar with laughter.
ibivi

Oh please! All those young women out there willing to have sex with this rutting 80-year old to get fame is rather sad.
ibivi

Not if they don’t change the water!
jansand

If Viagra makes you deaf and blind,an erection is handy if you don’t have a white cane.
Timray

i am reminded here of great literature…Much Ado About Nothing
Timray

Balzac…Love is blind, it is also deaf and dumb
onagarf

Fame, or money?
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/4EE4YZVXFA6EEWTO7ELJ2D6WQM titus

I can see the practical applications of Viagra, like solving illegal emigration on the southern border by giving it free to prospective emigrants, thus making it difficult for them to crawl under the border fence, but Viagra philosophy?
lkvamme

Hey, that was my idea! (only kiddin’…don’t get all excited now…)
hmcleaver

A few years ago I had a student who was paying his way through college by flying pot across the border from Mexico to Texas. I discovered this the day he came to tell me he had been caught and sentenced to prison and to ask if he could complete his work in my course while there. I, of course, said sure thing. Then we discussed other possible independent study courses he might pursue while locked up.

As it turned out he was incarcerated in a low-security prison near Dallas where he was put to work alongside other prisoners making uniforms for the Contras – the illegal terrorists organized and funded by the Reagan Administration as a part of what later became known as the Iran-Contra Scandal. Bored with sewing, this young fella snooped around the prison – which was located on an old Air Force base - and discovered a still-functioning flight simulator. When he proposed to the warden that he could train other prisoners to fly in the spirit of rehabilitation via learning new skills, he lucked out and got an OK which allowed him to escape what he found to be the odious task of supporting terrorism.

Now, guess who were his most enthusiastic students? You got it, guys who had been caught smuggling pot across the border by truck or boat and who wanted to diversify their transport options! Malcolm X was right, it seems, when he called prison the “university of the working class.”

At any rate, “awegweiser” is quite right that while profitable for the prison industry (and the drug cartels, as it keeps supply down and prices up) the so-called “War on Drugs” is a waste a time and resources – both human and monetary. Better to legalize all drugs and then spend time and money figuring out why so many Americans feel the need to resort to them – from alcohol and caffeine through uppers, downers, painkillers, glue and pot to cocaine, meth and heroin to make it through their days and nights. Of course we don’t want to do that, because it would reveal the alienation and desperation that pervades American capitalist society.
achilton1987

so instead of ‘war on drugs’ it will be called ‘war on people who will continue to grow pot but not pay taxes’
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soonerdgs

So did the government refuse to take the $80,000 in drug money that he used to pay down the student loans? And if not, maybe they can take the $27,000 they seized from Vivenzio and finish paying off his student loan. That way they won’t have to come after him for defaulting on his payments while he’s in jail…