Entries from February 2009

February 8, 2009

Please visit our new home online! www.auccaravan.org

Marhaba!
The Caravan started this blog to publish news about The American University in Cairo. Thanks to your continued support and readership, we’re growing again.
Find our new home at www.auccaravan.org — that’s where you will find the latest news, features, video reports and PDFs of our weekly print edition about life at one of the most important [...]

February 4, 2009

Faculty passwords targeted by email scam

By Sarah Wali and Nicholas Gerda
AUC’s technology services has issued a warning to faculty and students against a phishing scam that appears to be coming from their office.  The scammers are using the University Academic Computing Technologies’ support email to ask for user passwords.
“They are trying to get you to tell them an account number [...]

February 3, 2009

Drivers to undergo training after fourth bus crash

By Ingy Hassieb
A Family Transport bus carrying students and staff heading to the downtown campus crashed into a sand truck Sunday afternoon near the Maadi exit off the Ring Road.
Director of Facilities and Operations Sherif Sadek said that the sand truck was backing-up on the road and the bus driver couldn’t control the vehicle in [...]