Thursday, December 01, 2011

AUB Alumni magazine

As I was reading the new issue of the magazine, which succeeds in irritating me as much as the alumni magazine of Georgetown University, I realized that the reactionary streak at the university has been constant.  There is a reference to George Edward Post, for example, and no reference to the Darwin affair.  There is an interview with a former professor at AUB who now lives in Austin, and she laments that students were active in politics in the 1960s.  Excuse them if they were outraged over the loss of Palestine and lack of social justice in Lebanon.  There is an interview with the president of AUB in which he claims that there was never an objection to the citation of the bible in the motto of the university.  What does that say: it only confirm my conviction.  One day when I was a student at AUB in 1980, I woke up furious.  I wrote several signs in Arabic: "The solution...the Solution: Nationalize AUB".  I still believe that firmly.