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/^Z^ N mmm mmSm D W 1 l i HSHH PH $gj|R IP ‘ ^ 4/ M ^ ■ / A B] v /jI VYC 1 ^ X l l / o l 1 k l ' 11' _ /! u L# [? 1 * 1 1 1 t * > n o Volume 41 Number 50 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Friday, January 28,1977 i S Friday, January 21.1277 In Egypt the hungry child grows into the angry adult A -J Egypt's government quickly called off the price increases poverty surrounding it cannot be masked. It ii as sad a scene as you will see—a young child begging » ‘ At ' ■ . ' /'-j for fxnnies by Egypt's famed pyramids—scratching an open when another day of bloody rioting took place. So for days, sore to exemplify his debasement. months, even a year or two, the poor will be able to survive. Cry for the Egyptians, 75 percent of whom are illit—„ It is equally as sad, the young child in Saccara, three hours But what happens when the country goes bankrupt? It is Cry for the farmer backed against the desert who hs»T~l by camel from Giza, reaching up to you with an open hand on the brink now. What happens to a country whose child each year—another hungry child. * and pointing to his moutly hungry for food. population increases by a million a year? What happens to the poor when nine out of every ten people are just that? In Egypt I ate bread that tasted like excrement and saw The situation does not look bright. The people chinwl cheese crawling with bugs. I ate rice that had dirt in it and “Sadat (Egypt’s PresidentJ^ou live in palaces while sreZ was served some type of bird that had not been gutted. Author, Crain Reem, visited Egypt in the fall of 1971 on seven to a room ” in their riou last week. They oied Living in Egypt is no treat. Neither is visiting it, if you feel an educational seminar that toured part of the world Nassar, their former president, but what they nrerf u . for the ignorant, the poverty-stricken. We visit as Americans Reem is now an associate editor for Mustang Daily. miracle from God. ' who worry about air conditioners. Most Egyptians worry about their next meal. Being a tourist it was easy to take a detached view i, I#»i week, mass riou took place in Cairo and the port city A irony of the situation was the first day's rioting. A large easy to go on a camel ride and drink beer. But of Alexandria, 125 miles to the north when the government group attacked the Nile Hilton Hotel. If you have never been seen such poverty such misery. The poor s w a r m ^ T " announced—by way of the tnoming newspapers—that there to Cairo, that might not mean much. But the Hilton is as and make you feel like a detached king. And you hawiM? would be price increases for a number of government ominous as the pyramids. It stands with its back to the Nile your pocket, a month’s wages for a college Egyptian. ■ subsidised basic commodities. and facing a large square where an inadequate bus system is The commodities included suger, rice, bread and cooking centered. V gas. All are essential items for most Egyptians. The increases—ranging from 5 per cent to 100 per cent— The poor people crowd into the buses everyday. They see What is there to do?The pyramids standasareminderofi represented in many cases just a few pennies. But with 90 per the Hilton and watch as rich tourists come and go. They once-great people. But at the base of those monuments 1m cent of Egypt’s 40 million people living in poverty on a per sweat on each other, packed like sardines, and see a clean the people of today. They are ragged and hungry and pen capita income of |200 a year, an increase of even one cent on building in the midst of a decrepit city. They live off the handouts of harried tourists. There a no a needed food could be devastating. The difference between the richness of that Hilton and the place to turn in this arid land.’There is no pl«*» to go. Highway double standard? It’s proper, enought for the California slow down other motorists may do so, too. Highway Patrol to woo the bus and truck­ The session reporterly ended in a warm ing industries for voluntary compliance glow of promised cooperation and if it with the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, as turns out that Craig has succeeded thus in was done recently by CHP Commissioner slowing down the highway behemdths, Glen Craig. more power to him. s But strict enforcement and meaningful Still, a certain plaintive note is suggested fines are still needed to emphasise the by the meeting, as if the CHP has to plead message. with bus and truck drivers to obey the law. Craig's reason for calling the meeting The average motorist who speeds doesn’t with industry representatives was his con­ get a consiliatory talk from the man in the cern over the fact too many drivers—in black and white car. He gets a citation and autos as well as trucks and buses—are usually pays a stiff fine. We trust Craig ignoring the speed litqit set to conserve made it clear to the bus and struck people fuel. that they are in for the same treatment if He focused on truck and bus drivers. they dont't slow it down. Craig said, because they tend to be “pacesetters” on the highways and if they Reprinted from the Sacramento Bee Our readers write... MET A toast... watching the gat and time fly As (or the library, there is by- nothing students'can do at Here's to: The ticket giver, the university level to get a Editor who doesn't appreciate my larger building. A Toast to The New Year, creativity. New Quarter, on Parking (or The food prices on campus KISS MY BUMPER are leu than or equal to those Not) at Cal Poly: Pam Thompson Here's to: The administra­ of many fast food places off- tion who tells parking per­ campus. (And we don’t pay sales tax. (Granted, prices are mits for non-existing spaces, Editor between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. not as low as in a super­ Here's to: The student An editorial in Wednes­ market. But you don’t get politicians who campaign day, Jan. 26 Mustang Daily low prices by complaining, about "The Parking has the facts slightly slanted. you must justify them. Problem" and once elected Students do speak out, but (Maybe if the students didn't sob the classic political cry they know better than to steal so much dinner ware?) "but I'm only one person, scream. You say there was no If students were as quiet as what can I do? it’s all in outcry about the skateboard you claim, the dorms would Sacramento” ban. Well. SIC opposed it. not have their lobbies today. Here's to: The people who SAC supported it, and three They would have been will not build above, under articals, two letters to the walled up and used for or around to create the editor and 500 signatures on meeting rooms. necessary spaces in the name a petition to SAC later, SAC Students do speak up, they We have a treaty of Beautys' Sake. amended there support. Ade­ do it often. I find it difficult Here's to: The people who quate response considering to believe you are not aware pull in ahead of me, as I wait the minority that ride of it. 15 minutes in an aisle. skateboards. John Pilge About the cover The new Allan Hancock Community College provides a training ground tor students who las universities or c find it difficult i be fully prepared fort Weather Weather (onw l call, for fai, Saturday with little chance of rain. Lows both y the mid SOs to mid 40s. Highs in the 60s with n v winds. r More of what our readers write A nti-apa^y the University had to pay the ■1 would like to set the Editor: last 60 yean. (For continuing audacity of this man, Nor­ rent for off-campus lab record straight for all the In response to Craig students and for new students man Jackson, who by facilities for the School of student body to read. The Reem’s article on the finding their way to the cam­ himself assumes the "non­ Architecture due to the lack "P" still has meaning; it passiveness of the Cal Poly pus.) Have we .become to expert" role of judge, jury f iriieve i response to of available space on cam­ represents Cal Poly. The "P” student, 1 have decided to impersonal and business like and executioner in imposing ^ Reem's editorial in the pus. I believe that the con­ symbolizes polytechnic, the voice my opinion on the emi­ that we must destory or put his own conception oif com­ struction of the new architec­ major portion of this univer­ nent destruction of the Poly 5 26 ediuon of the HpM /V aside all of the landmarks munity standards at the L a g D«ly » necessary. ture building had priority sity’s name. Arfe you, jhe and traditions of our past? It doorway of his building. over construction of a new students, ashamed of this un­ Jtop, for Craig's pace of The "P ” is one of the few the Poly "P" to go the route ^nd—if nothing else.

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