Ahmed Aboul Enein

For 30 years, AUC has hosted Egyptian antiquities from different eras of history, yet most students, faculty and staff have never seen them or even knew about them. The existence of these antiquities was only revealed to the public after they were stolen in late 2010 and the media publicized the theft. The Caravan has conducted an investigation into this matter.

In this third article in our four-part series, The Caravan examines the roots of AUC's collection and how Egyptian artifacts came to be stored on university grounds.

For 30 years AUC has hosted Egyptian antiquities from different eras of history, yet most students, faculty and staff have never seen them or even knew about them. The existence of these antiquities was only revealed to the public after they were stolen in late 2010 and the media publicized the theft. The Caravan has conducted an investigation into this matter. We publish this four-part series answering questions like where these objects came from, where they were housed and how they were stolen.

Egypt's first presidential elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster will be held on May 23, head of the Supreme Committee for Elections Farouk Sultan said in a press conference last week.

A first round of voting will take place on May 23 and 24 and a runoff in case no candidate garners more than 50 percent of the vote is scheduled for June 16 and 17. The committee will declare a winner on June 21.

Egyptians living abroad will be allowed to vote at embassies and consulates from May 11 to 17, and from June 3 to 9 in case of a runoff.

Hundreds of students from different universities marched last week to Parliament. They had four main demands: No constitution under military rule; no presidential elections under military rule; swift trials of all those responsible for killing protesters; and finally, student representation on the committee that will draft the country's constitution.

SCAF divides opinions amongst students.

A recent Caravan poll shows that the majority of AUC students disapprove of the ruling military council's performance.

Newly appointed Executive Director of Human Resources Leila Khalil and her team have been meeting with the Workers' Syndicate since November 13 to resolve concerns and grievances from workers and staff.

But Khalil says that the majority of the workers' demands, especially those that came to the fore during the campus-wide strike in September, had been met before she assu

In the wake of the campus-wide strike at the beginning of the semester, administration reached two separate agreements with students represented by the Student Union, and AUC workers and staff represented by the AUC Independent Syndicate.

Both agreements included a number of deadlines that administration promised to honor in their bid to meet demands and compromises reache

There is a famous mantra about the failure to know one's history. "He who knows only his own generation remains always a child," Roman scholar Cicero once said.

As Egypt rewrites its modern history in the wake of the January 25 Revolution, its successes and failures of the 20th Century become more crucial than ever.

One of Egypt's most pivotal events in the past 40 years - and which was recently marked with much fanfare by the government and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces - is the October 1973 War.

 

The Caravan interviewed AUC President Lisa Anderson following the suspension of the student-led strike

How do you feel about the agreements reached with different constituents?