Cultural Segregation
With the upcoming “Beirut Rock Festival 2009”, certain schools ended up distributing papers addressed to parents that mainly request that their children do not attend such an event. Although this wouldn’t seem troubling if the school actually cared for the students, but this is more of a cultural attack on a certain culture, and especially on select people.
The Letter Addressed to the Student's parents
The Letter states that the event is “Dangerous”, and although they appreciate music and enjoy it, they claim that during the event, certain “Gothic” groups will attempt to spread it’s culture, referred to as “The culture of death”, and will spread and display dark thoughts. The letter also states that there will be a high risk of presence and distribution of drugs, and that there is a severely high probability that there will be practice of certain “satanic” rituals. Finally the note questions the event’s ban on cameras and filming affirming that this will only serves the purpose to have no witnesses. Therefore it advises parents to not let their children attend such an event to “protect and preserve” them.
Filed under Lebanon, Opinion, Society | Comments (15)Political Decay
Wretched dark figures appeared in the sky,
And towards the earth spat drops of hate,
On the mountain people build dams so high,
To undoubtedly feast of that which came
Drunk, corrupted, they slowly decayed
Undead they walk, blinded by hate,
Vision tainted, conscience faded,
Wells of darkness they became
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NDU: A bad fall for Fall 09
“I feel that the university has betrayed me !!” (A CS student)
As the new semester starts at NDU, students line up to register their courses, eager to pick a schedule that would fit most of their time. However if you have been signing up to FALL09 one big disappointment awaits you. I do understand that teachers are limited and have their times, and I do understand that one cannot have too many sections for a class of a small group of people. However there has been a lot of inconsistencies with the offerings this semester, that upset a lot of students, this article tend to show such inconsistencies. After I heard too many bad feedback from my friends, and having experienced the whole process myself, I would like just to put things clear, because such things , and for the sake of professionalism, require an explanation. I would like to point out too that this inconsistency seams to be unique to this time only, and so is not a general habit.
Filed under Education, Lebanon | Tags: NDU, Offerings, Registration, University | Comments (12)The Phoenix Awakens
The world has changed and so have we,
United we would never be.
Consumed by selfish greed our leaders fall,
The propaganda war blinds us all.
Unless we change for a new tomorrow,
The Lebanese soil will cry in sorrow,
Recalling the days we Lebanese stood firm,
Against all odds, fighting by our own terms.
Corrupted Roots
This is why I don’t copy…
It has become a habit and a very well rumor in circulation that there is copying/cheating in the official exams, while this is not valid in some centers, and very outrageous in others, the media remains however blackened by that fact, which means that someone is covering up pretty well the traces.
This article’s main reason is to expose such trespasses and display the consequence of such acts and how it is affecting not only the people that are cheating but the other and even the country.
Green Light
I have at an earlier time this year heard that we – the Lebanese people – are very civilized, although the person who said that comment was very certain, I just wasn’t convinced.
I mean, how could we talk about civilized people when, every day, driving on the road home, we curse almost a few dozen times, because some people don’t deserve to be driving (I wonder from where or how they got their license anyway?). But still, we thank god we came home safe, in one piece, and life goes on.
I still wonder how we could say that there are civilized people when we do not abide by the basic communications ethics, which are to actually listen to what the person is saying until he/she finishes and not intervening before the idea has been said (the concept of raising the hand has not yet been clearly implemented in our lives)
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