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By   Aboul Seoud Mohamed and Mohamed Kamel    17/ 10/ 2008

Students who belong to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Group said they would stage a mass demonstration next Monday at all universities all over Egypt to protest against dropping their names from the final electoral rolls of the student elections.

They plan to make the protest day as a day for general mourning in all universities, according to their statement. The day the protest will start is the day university administrations will appoint the heads and the assistants of the student unions.

Mohamed Mohei, spokesman for MB collegians at Cairo University, said the demonstrators will be dressed in black T-shirts and will carry black flags and a symbolic coffin of freedom.

Moreover, MB students at Cairo University launched a campaign entitled ‘a drawing of a heart’ in response to excluding their names from the elections. In this action they made a heart-shaped sitting at the center of the Faculty of Commerce.

They said their message is that they would continue their social and human activities at the university even if not under the legitimacy of the administration.

During the campaign, MB collegians would talk about Allah’s graces, how to quit bad habits like smoking, visiting porno web sites, indecency and abandoning prayers and the necessity that students must feel ordeals of other ill-lucked people, such as the people of Doweiqa.

Universities yesterday ended phase II of the student elections to select the head and assistants of the student committees. The phase to be held next Sunday will elect those of the student unions.