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On Thursday morning, an unidentified student sent a Blackberry message urging students to litter the campus in the hopes of pressuring university administrators to cave in to custodial staff demands. Some students complied with the message, and within a few hours, AUC was turned into a garbage dumping ground. Washrooms were vandalized with faeces and urine on the floors and walls.

Mark Tusay, a graduate student studying at AUC, wrote the following guest commentary on his impressions of the staff strike and student reaction.

The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to appoint Lisa Anderson the 11th AUC President, making her the first woman to assume that role since the university was founded.  

The results of the vote, which took place on October 21, were announced in an email sent out from the President’s Office early last week.

Media advocacy groups have been alarmed by the recent shutting down of 12 private TV stations for allegedly inciting religious extremism, and say the closures come at a critical time for freedom of the press.

Some 20 other satellite broadcast stations have been handed license violation warnings.

These developments, taking place in quick succession, have raised concerns among some journalists that they are designed to curb news dissemination. With parliamentary elections just weeks away, media professionals are questioning whether these new regulations will significantly curb the free press in Egypt.