The End.

I woke up today, sad to have to come to university but knowing that this is one of my last 8:30 classes in AUC. The semester is ending in a couple of weeks, my 4 year journey is ending in a couple of weeks and to me now my life is literally ending.

When I come to think of the past four years and how they impacted my life, changed it, in other words reformulated it, I come to discover that university years are not the ending however they are the beginning.

Even though I sound quite optimistic about it right now, this is not what I really feel inside. I am actually freaking out from the fact of graduation, having to leave my university, the people I got used to knowing and seeing everyday is what freaks me out. The fact that I will have more responsibilities on top of my shoulders, more committment and more expectations from people freaks me out.

Graduation is a big deal, getting into "real" life is a big deal and that is assuming that what we are going through is not real. It is considered real to a certain extent yet post graduation to me at least in considered the reality real, as in there is no way back, as in you have to continue, not looking back untill you reach the end of this very long, hectic, tiring, disturbing race.

I DO NOT WANT TO GRADUATE!!!

What is the Importance of the Student Union?

When I first thought of writing this article, I decided to talk in it about all the accomplishments of the Student Union since I have ever heard about which was four years ago in my freshman year. Then it struck me that it is not its accomplishments that make it the most important and powerful organization on campus in fact its importance exists in the essence of how it works.

The Student Union started in around 1985, while before it was a student council. Both the Student Union and Student Council started for one reason which was to represent the students in front of the administration and try to provide them with some services they needed. Along the years this idea progressed, it developed and formed a Student Union which had a formal structure, an executive plan and sufficient HR to implement that plan.

Representing, Serving, Entertaining, Developing and connecting the Students is what the SU aims at doing right now. Representing the Students, in my point of view, is however the most important, it can make a Student Union or Break it. When students suffer a certain problem on campus whether with the different AUC services or with different administration offices there must be an entity responsible to help them find a solution for their problems and having a community of more than 5000 students makes it impossible to have them all solve their own problems. So here intervenes the SU, there is a whole committee inside the SU only responsible for representing the Students, advocating their rights and finding solutions to their daily academic and administrative problems. Which is the Reason the Student union exists from the first place.
Some people when they start observing the Student Union, they do not see except the concerts and the events. Even though this is not a negative but it is not the reason why the Student Union is here it is one of the aspects where the Student Union fulfills its role. The student union is not an agency that is present to organize parties, to form conferences and to publish newspapers only it is here to do all the previous but for a cause which is the Students.

According to the student constitution, the Student union is the highest executive body on campus and its mission is to represent, serve, connect and entertain and for all that to happen it needs perseverance, vision and belief.

This is what the Student Union is all about….

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Listening Journal #4: Long form audio documentary: Love and Morals in Mangalore

Love and Morals in Mangalore

This documentary is a BBC production that was recorded in Mangalore, South India. A reporter narrated the documentary and there are sound bites added of people involved in the story and of actors imitating those involved for safety reasons. The documentary was about 23 minutes long.
The documentary is about relationship problems across religions in Mangalore in India. It is said that the “Moral Police” in India beat up and punish any Hindu woman who is sitting with a Muslim guy or any couple that are standing together must identify who hey are and what is their relationship status. The moral Police defend themselves saying that they are doing that to defend their women and to make sure they are protected from minorities such as Muslims and Christians. It was said that Muslim boys do that so as to make Hindu girls do not convert to Islam under what is said by Muslims “Love Jihad”.
The documentary was produced professionally, the sound is very clear and the narrator is very assertive, engaging and her voice is strong. She succeeded in interviewing people who know how to describe which engaged me a lot in the topic and I felt I was present with them in Mangalore in India. The documentary was quite too long however it was very interesting which made me enjoy listening to it till the end. What made this documentary interesting was the topic itself, which was different and quite unusual. Also the way it was tackled made it very engaging as the reporter got all points of views; those being beaten up, the police who do so, Hindus, Muslims and even higher authorities.
I believe that this documentary used very suitable music to the topic and I enjoyed listening to all conversations and interviews she had with people in Indian streets. The way she described the setting and atmosphere was very engaging and interesting.