{"id":4965,"date":"2024-03-13T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T04:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:50","slug":"heavy-rains-close-campus-for-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/heavy-rains-close-campus-for-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rains close campus for weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Annalisa Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Heavy rainfalls forced the American University of Sharjah to shut down March 9-10, with campus events and exams postponed and outlets and services closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university sent an email March 8 warning students and the larger AUS community about expected bad weather, and cited safety reasons for cancellations and closures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides campus food outlets, AUS closed the library and Sports Complex. Delivery services were, however, still permitted, and the testing center operated as scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bus service from Abu Dhabi and other emirates to AUS restarted March 10. Normal AUS operations resumed the following day following the assessment of weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Annalisa Lewis UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Heavy rainfalls forced the American University of Sharjah to shut down March 9-10, with campus events and exams postponed and outlets and services closed. The university sent an email March 8 warning students and the larger AUS community about expected bad weather, and cited safety reasons for cancellations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33],"class_list":{"0":"post-4965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}