University Daily Kansan, October 18, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Speaker tells of Egypt's troubles
By FRANK HANSEL Staff Reporter
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is trying to develop foreign and economic policies that will help Egypt recover from the effects of the policies of his predecessors, a member of the Universities Field Staff International said yesterday at semester's first University Forum.
Speaking to about 30 people, Ann Moseley Leech, the member, said that Mubarak had inherited a nation in which two of his predecessors, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat, had taken opposite routes to achieve their foreign policy and economic goals.
Lesch was the first speaker in a mini-series on International Affairs presented by the Ecumenical Christian Ministeries. The Universities Field Staff International sends Lesch to lecture at member universities
three months of the year. The remainder of the time Lesch lives in Cairo, where she conducts research and writes for the Staff.
"In the 1950s and 1960s, Nasser tried in industrialize Egypt by using the resources that Egypt already had," she said. "Sadat to build up the economy by opening it up to Western investors."
THE SIX-DAY WAR in 1967 between Egypt and Israel destroyed Nasser's economic plan, Lesch said. Egypt was forced to turn to the Soviet Union for aid and ran up a debt of more than a million in economic and military aid.
After Nasser's death in 1970, Sadat attempted to take the economy in a different direction. He opened Egypt to upgrade the economy, she said.
Sadat's policies drove up inflation and only the rich could afford the luxuries the economy was providing, she said. This led to riots in 1975 and 1977 in which masses of people
destroyed shops and night clubs,the symbols of luxury.
"There were a lot of get-rich-quick schemes, and no long-term commitments to the economy by Western investors," Lesch said.
"The government is attacking the problem by teaching the people about birth control and an ad campaign to make them aware of it." Lesch said.
A lot of Egypt's economic problems are caused by its growth rate. The Egyptian population increases by about 3 percent, or 1.2 million people, a year. Leesch said Mubarak was taking steps to curb that rate.
In a country where abortion is illegal, and large families are common, Lesch said, many families are reluctant to start using birth control until after they have four or five children.
Mubarak has worked to recover from his predecessors' foreign policy, Lesch said.
StudEx approves updated rules
The Student Senate now has copies of its own rules after a year of waiting.
The Student Senate Executive Committee yesterday passed an updated set of rules and regulations. Sixty copies will be made and distributed to senators and University of Kansas officials.
"People have been skirting the rules," said William Easley, chairman of University Affairs Committee. "They've done what's convenient because they didn't know anything else to do. We now have rules so they'll have to stop doing that."
The new version incorporates rule changes made this year by the Senate and changes that were made in the summer of 1983 by a committee directed by Jim Cramer, student body vice president at the time.
Jon Gilchrist, Finance Committee chairman, said the Senate had been using a copy of erroneous rules for the past year. No official copy was made of Cramer's version and the Senate had nothing to use, he said. A makeshift copy was composed using several sources, mostly senator's notes.
Cramer found a copy of the original rules this summer. Gilchrist said some parts had been left out of the newer version and old rules had been put in instead of being passed by Cramer's committee.
"We're very happy that finally the Senate can go on," Gilchrist said. "We hope they abide by it, not to hurt 'n't, they need to change them."
Gilchrist said that StudEx had been making exceptions for special cases and bending the rules but that the committee wouldn't do that in the future.
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