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Sep 18, 2010

Student Voice starts "We Will Not Pay a Penny" Campaign

Some AUI-S students started a campaign under the new fees imposed by the AUI-S administration under the title of "We Will not Pay a Penny". Student Voice is sponsering this campaign which is designed to increase its acitivities in the beginning...
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Simple and Straight: 3 Bonus Points

by Shalaw FatahI’ve heard much about (but not given) bonus points or grades, but it’s usually given and not taken. Here we have a different situation, at first we came to AUI-S, our minimum was 2.7, and now it’s being raised to 3.0, an additional, or...
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Sep 17, 2010

We and Criticism

By Bahman Abdulrahman Hasan  Plato (427 BC 348BC) prominent Greek philosopher and mathematician, wrote "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Apology 38a) He, Plato, argues all man life should be examined. In other words our live are just...
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Sep 7, 2010

EID MUBAREK

 Dear AU-S students, Student Voice congratulates you on the Ramadan Eid, we wish you a happy nice life. Student Voice is and will remain the first and only indepented student voice at The American University of Iraq-Sulaima...
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Sep 6, 2010

Student Voice Poll: AUI-S Students Divided on Liberal Arts Education Merits

The Student Voice Poll According to the results of the Student Voice poll, which continued for a week and closed today , AUI-S students are sharply divided on the pros and cons of AUI-S's being a liberal arts university.  The...
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My U.S. Memoir- Second Part

by Ayoush Al-Zaidy While we were studying at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond; we were paired with 25 American classmates and spent the majority of our class time working with our American counterparts on social media-focused projects. We...
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Sep 5, 2010

U.S. Embassy Changed Naming from "Non-Kurdish" to "Non-KRG" after Student Voice's News

U.S. Embassy's Correction in its Facebook page Student Voice blog caused United States Baghdad Embassy to change its attitude towards naming the 20 full scholarships granted by the embassy to AUI-S. In  a previous news, Student Voice blog showed...
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Financial Aid System Needs Radical Reform

by Pola Kamal AUI-S has been offering jobs to its students who are on financial aid in order to offset some of their tuitions. Everyone is glad that AUI-S helps its students to pay the tuition, which students might not be able to pay without those jobs....
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Hayas's Goat and AUI-S

by Karwan Gaznay  In the past, there was a king of the villages in Kurdistan. One day the king called the people and said:” I have a goat. I would like to someone borrow my goat and return it with the same weight.” Hayas, who was a resident of the...
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Sep 4, 2010

Fall Semester: New Provost, New Rector and New Academic Dean of Students

Beginning from Fall semester, the three main positions of the AUI-S administration will be run by new faces....
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Miss Daloye, We are not Afraid

 by Bahman  Abdulrahman Hasan “Students are not familiar with freedom, absence of fear, criticism and dialogue, they are not used to healthy relations with their professors. Students in Kurdistan as well as all over Iraq have grown accustomed...
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On Dashnye Daloye's Interview - We Need an American University!

by Mahdi Abdullah Murad In an interview given to Niqash website and published in many other Kurdish media, Dashne Daloye, the student affairs director, said that AUI-S students are not used to freedom and absence of fear. While supporting Ms. Daloye...
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Sep 2, 2010

The 20 Full Scholarships ... U.S. Embassy: It is for the non-Kurdish students .... AUI-S: It is for Students from Outside Kurdistan Region

Student Voice found a big difference between the United States embassy in Baghdad and American University of Iraq-Sulaimani regarding naming the 20 full scholarships granted by the US embassy....
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AUI-S Official Website Confuses Students over Exam Dates

auis.org, The official website of the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, confuses Summer school students on the exam schedule.According to the Academic calendar published on auis.org, the final exams schedule for the summer school students will...
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Sep 1, 2010

To Dr. Barham Salih & Dr. John Agresto: Please Read This and Rescue Our Taxi Drivers

by Dana Jaf Two weeks a ago, on a day with scorching heat, I took a taxi . The driver was a handsome young man who seemed to be flexible with any amount of money. When I opened the front door, I felt the joy in his eyes, something normal to any...
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