Students from the Kefaya [Enough] and Haqqi [My Right] movements as well as the Labor and the Democratic Front parties are going to stage a protest today at 1 p.m. at Cairo University on International Students' Day. They are going to protest at the ban from exercising politics inside the university and to denounce the declining role of Egyptian universities in political and partisan life. They are also going to call for the university security to be appointed by the university administration rather than by the Ministry of Interior. The protest is also going to be joined by the Momkin [Perhaps] movement, which first showed up on the sidelines of the Democratic Front Party conference on students' problems last Thursday. This movement calls for reducing carnet fees and replacing the current student regulations with others allowing students to freely exercise politics. The chairman of the Democratic Front Party, Dr. Osama el-Ghazali Harb, said one of the crimes against university students was to ban them from exercising politics as well as poor education. He said students have moved away from politics and education and are instead keeping themselves busy with other things that have nothing to do with their reality. Dr. Karima el-Hafanawi, leading figure of the Kefaya movement, said a joint committee had been formed by socialist revolutionary students as well as students from the Nasserist, the Labor, the Democratic Front, al-Ghad [Tomorrow] and al-Wafd [The delegation] parties and from the Muslim Brotherhood [MB]. She also said this committee was tasked with preparing the protest.
