Caravan, Vol. 54, No. 21

              VOLUME 65, No. 21 MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1975 TM O PIASTERS
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Food boycotted— Gourmet sales drop
by WAP AA ABDEL NASSER
AUjC student assembly attended by about 200 undergraduates and graduates voted unanimously to boycott the University’s food service last Thusrday. The aim of the boycott was to improve the quality and quantity of the food.
Dr. Frank W. Blanning, dean of students, objected to the move citing the hardships that would be visited on the hostel residents if the motion was implemented.
The boycott was carried out immediately. Signs urging students not to do business with the food services were posted all over campus doors and inside the cafeteria.
The boycott appeared to be successful. The sale of soft drinks and sandwiches dropped by 60 per cent, and hot meal sale dropped by more than that percentage (about 66 per cent) according to
Mrs. Amal Rabie, kitchen supervisor.
In order to provide an alternative lunch service, the High Board purchased
Political economy lectures
The Department of Economics - Political Science-Mass Communication amiomioed two lectures by Dr. Roger Owen, Distinguished Visiting Professor, lAliddle East Center, St. An-tonjrs College, Oxford.
The first lecture is on «The Political Economy of the Ottoman Egypt» and will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Oriental Hall today.
The second lecture Ls on «The Political Economy of 19th Century Egypt* on April 7 at 3:30 p.m. in Oriental Hall.
No probation in major
now
by THEA YANNOU
Under a new procedure adopted by the Registrar’s office, students will no longer be placed on probation due to a deficiency only in their major subjects.
This was disclosed during the Undergraduate Committee meeting last Wednesday by a representative of the Registrar’s office, who said: «There is no probation in major. It’s only a warning*.
Under the new rule, which applies to students admitted to the University from September 1973 onwards, only the cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) is considered in determining probation.
The Registrar’s office will send letters to students each semester informing them of their deficiencies. Advisors and students will see that the deficiencies are cleared up before graduation.
L.E. 20 worth of «fool* and «tamia» sandwiches from a nearby restaurant. They were sold throughout the afternoon at the Student Union Room.
The boycott’s success seemed to generate considerable enthusiasm and support among the overwhelming majority of students.
Some professors, sympathetic to the boycott, refrained from patronizing the food service. Most of the business done at gourmet was by foreign students who were either unaware of the boycott or didn’t sympathize with its purpose.
Several students volunteered to use their own cars to bring food items to the cafeteria, others were selling food while some of their colleagues were explaining the purposes of the boycott to their fellow students.
«This step is intended to prove to the Administration that the student body is a force to be reckoned with and that they can be rallied to lobby on their own behalf when it comes to matters affecting their lives. It is not a strike but rather an expression of displeasure with an intolerable situation*, Ahmed Farouky, High Board President said.


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Student Union offers
needy, not clever
by OMAIMA HATEM
The Student Union is offering a limited number of scholarships for those students who will not be able to afford the future increase in tuition fees, according to Ahmed Farouky, president of Student Union.
To achieve this goal, Mr. Farouky added, the most widely - attended shows will be tax exempted. For example, 40 percent of the Talent Show’s revenue will be devoted to the financing of this project.
Furthermore, the Uni-
versity will be selUng space for display advertisements on campus, the revenue of which will be added to the project. Also the income of the book-cooperative system will help.
Mr. Farouky explained that the choice of candidate for scholarships would be on the basis of financial need only, disregarding the criterion of merit. «A committee including student and administration representatives will be supervising the whole project*, he said.
SRC gets $69,000 for enltnre project
by MUTAZ DAJANI
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has approved gfiving the SRC a grant in the amount of $ 69,000 to conduct a project in Egypt to study the role of cultural values in population policies.
The Project:	«Cross-
Chjltural Study on the Role of Qiltural Values in Population Policies* is taking place in the Phi-
^ TUITION ALTERNATIVES (PAGE 3)
*	NEW LIBRARY PROGRAM (PAGE 3)
#	BOYCOTT IN PHOTOS (PAGE 5)
^ BREAKDOWN OF FACULTY VOTE ON STUDENT REPRESENTATION (PAGE 6) AKHNOUKH TROUPE SHOW (PAGE G)
lippines, Kenya and Mexico (in addition to Egypt).
It attempts to investigate how cultural values and personal values affect the formulation of population policies and family planning programs and the acceptance or rejection of these programs on the parts of the rece-piants. In addition the project attempts to analyse the historical backgrounds and circumstances which lead to the formulation and implementation of population policies and family planning programs in the countries under study. It also studies the role of international agencies and internal decision makers in these programs.
In Eg3T)t the SRC has
completed the research design for the project, the specific methodologies to be followed and the instruments to be used. Needed literature has been compiled and at the moment reviewed. Field research and data collection is expected to start within two months.
The project in Egypt will involve interviews to be held with top personnel who have been involved in the formulation of population policies and family planning programs; with family planning clinic personnel (including physicians, social workers and nurses); and with the representatives of the international agencies in Egypt who have been providing assistance or con-sultance to the family
planning programs. One hundred family planning clinics will be selected from thr^ governorates: one in Upper Egypt (probably Menia); Menoufia in Lower Eg}rpt: and an urban governorate (Cairo or Alexandria).
On the problems that might arrive in the future Dr. Gadalla, SRC associate director and co-director of the project, commented, « Although we have received the approval of the director of the National Family Planning Board in Egypt, to conduct the field work for this project, we still did not receive the full clearance to start the field work. Once we receive the full clearance I do not expect any problems in completing the research*.