Elections were held Thursday (first delayed for bad weather). The good fact is that the Islamists have issued a political brochure with a big Jordanian flag and they defined themselves as 'patriots', it was a very appreciable action, this means they finally discovered there are some Jordanians here in this university... Another good fact is that my friend (a CS candidate) I strongly supported last week won with a very large margin (nearly 70% of the votes)... And most important is the fact that the deanship of students' affairs has prohibited the attachment of any form of electoral posters, for the first time we have clean walls during the electoral campaign!

GOOD THING

Our university finally decided to render public the laptop offers for students. Our president, Dr. Oweis more than one year ago announced that several laptops will be distributed to students for reasonable prices, the university has now a wireless network in which every student is able to connect to the net from his own laptop, in a near future, lectures in the IT faculty will be given 'digitally' to students, who can make and submit their works through the net.

However, it seems the prices of the pc's will be high... but, to be serious, the offer is quite good, some student-related features include an anti-theft feature to alarm students in case of notebook theft, voice recording feature with two array microphones to enable clear recording of the lectures and a finger print ID to secure notebooks from access by others.

Our faculty's stupidity is well known, but this time they've exaggerated... The DCCA2007 conference, one of the most important in my university during last years, was held during first exams, I've seen some instructors were not happy of the small numbers of students that have attended the sections, however, they wanted that, in the 4-day conference I had 4 exams, if there was any form of intelligence in this department they would have postponed the exams... or even better annulled them :)

Some volunteers told me they were not treated so well, the university did not offer them even a mean of transportation to the airport; in addition some said that the conference was only a promotion to put a big quantity of $$$ in one instructor's pocket (?)