BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY STUDENT COUNCIL
Election 98: Leaflets from the Blocs

Change Bloc:
It's Time for Change

Greetings Brothers and Sisters

The crisis facing the Palestinian political establishment is reflected in the student movement making it weak and almost impotent and preventing it from being able to act, behave, or make independent descisions. We believe in the need to face these problems and to change our reality for the better. We hope to encourage individuals take on responsibility for their homeland and their nation and to employ their cultural strengths and intellectual abilities.

As students representing the youth of Palestine, we have the power to change the future of our nation. We have the power to build and to reconstruct. This is not accomplished by following descisions that were made in our absence, but by freedom of thought and by making independent and courageous descisions.

We see that we as students can only act in one of the following ways:

  1. To be followers and let others make the decisions for us,
  2. To stand aside and watch, unable to find a party that represents our beliefs,
  3. To create a movement inside the university and based on the student reality which reflects our thoughts and beliefs.

      Together To Create This Movement..Together To Change.

      Our Election Program

      Cultural Issues:
      • To hold a series of lectures dealing with social and cultural issues that concern a students looking for knowledge and beliefs.
      • To issue a university newsletter .
      Social Issues:
      • To start a liaison program with other univiersities.
      • To arrange activities and volunteer work in order to deepen students' social conciousness.
      Sports Issues:
      • To organize sports activities involving maximum participation of university students and employees.
      Academic Issues:
      • To work on making research the main teaching tool and the basis on which the student is evaluated.
      • To arrange forums between faculty representatives and student councilors on one side and students on the other to discuss the academic regulations and student issues.
      • To create training programs and internships to further student development.
      Art Issues:
      • To encourage students with talent and support them by developing programs, exhibitions and competitions.

      Our Candidates

      Primary Candidate: Lama Abu Zayyaad

      Fayez Emteir

      Ghadah Abu 'Awad

      Mohammad Abu Ghannaam

      Heba Abu Zayyaad

      Tareq Shadeed.


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