Power Outage!

Roaming around campus and shifting classes from HUSS and BEC to CORE...This was the state of AUC students moving from one building to another on Nov. 10th. They were questioning working power plugs following a sudden campus wide power outage that Monday.

"We couldn't take our excel quiz in the morning due to the campus blackout," said Ahmad Hbous, a finance senior. "We have waited the entire class period for the power to come back. Then, the teacher canceled the quiz."

In an interview with campus newspaper the CARAVAN, Osama Zayed, one of the university's head engineers, blamed construction loaders outside of the campus for cutting the main power line. When the power is cut, generators are used to backup areas with electricity loss. When this procedure was followed that morning, however, generators were not enough to supply energy to power the entire campus.

"Most of the mass communications classes were canceled that morning and more classes have been canceled later in the day," said lab technician who refused to mention her name. "Students take their classes in the labs because they need the computers and definitely the internet to do their research."

The power outage is another issue to be added to the problems that AUC is having already.