The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 216, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1975 Page: 3 of 10
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University in Cairo
Bans Western Dress
I By AHMED SHAWKI
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A1 Az-
har University, a 1,000-year-old
center of Islamic learning, has
banned Western dress for its
faculty and soon may order its
women students to cover up.
“Moslem scholars have lost
their religious dignity by wear-
ing shirts and trousers,’’ said
A1 Azhar Rector Abdel Halim
Mahmoud, 65.
“I wonder why we imitate
the West blindly with modern
dress.”
In June Mahmoud ordered
the all-male faculty to wear a
turban and galabiya, a floor-
length garment that looks like
a night shirt. Both garments
have been associated with Is-
lam since the days of the
Prophet Mohammed, its found-
er, Mahmoud said.
Those who do not abide by
the new rule will not be pro-
moted.
Sheikh Ahmed Badran, a pro-
fessor of religious law who al-
ready wore traditional dress,
supported the decision.
“I would not be respected by
my students if I wore modern
clothes,” he said. “Shirts and
trousers are the dress of non-
believers.”
Another professor, Sheikh Ah-
med Shehata, disagreed. He
said “there is nothing in the
Koran (the religion’s holy
book) or the Prophet Mo-
hammed’s words that described
a special dress for Moslems. It
is deeds that determine the
good Moslem from the bad.”
The rector is also studying
-proposals for women students
fo wear a special dress that
would cover their heads, arms
?and legs, he said,
v- Most of these students were
Private College President
Gives Views
Thursday, September 11, 1975-THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS-3
not happy.
Fatima Ibrahim, a medical
student, said “we belong to a
society where women wear
Western dress. We are not go-
ing to go against this. I would
look awkward all wrapped up
in conservative dress.”
Nawal Hassan, a commerce
student, said “the sheikhs’ sug-
gestions are silly. They argue
that girls wearing skirts that
show their legs embarrass
them. Well, (they should not
look at our Tegs and concen-
trate on theirTectures.”
Some girls : quickly adopted
the long floor-length skirts that
were popular in the West a
year ago and added a head-
dress but not a veil to get
around any new regulations.
This is not the first time
there has been a conflict over
how Moslems should dress in
Egypt, among the most liberal
Arab states where the religion
is practiced.
In the 19th century an Egyp-
tian religious leader issued a
fatwa, or legal decision, that
Moslems could adopt Western
dress provided men kept their
heads covered and women cov-
ered their heads and faces with
a veil.
A reformer, Kassem Amin,
started a campaign in 1891
against the veil, saying it was
Turkish dresf and not Islamic.
Egypt was part of the Ottoman
Empire at the time.
Moslem scholars could not
find arguments to dispute him
and after demonstrations in the
street by women, the veil was
dropped in 1901.
The fez, a flower pot-like red
hat, disappeared after the 1952
revolution that overthrew the
monarchy.
By VIVIAN BROWN
AP Newsfeatures Writer
Bankrupt colleges . . . aca-
demic ghost towns . . . defunct
education-oriented business
communities.
It all can become a reality as
state institutions expand, dupli-
cating facilities that exist in in-
dependent colleges and univer-
sities, and the tuition gap wid-
ens between state and inde-
pendent schools.
Meanwhile, college presidents
concern themselves with finan-
cial matters and must often
postpone intellectual pursuits.
So says Dr. John R. Silber,
49, president of Boston Univer-
sity.
He was discussing testimony
he had given recently before a
Congressional committee in
Washington and his concern
that certain aspects of the aid
to higher education bill “could
destroy the independent sec-
tor.” But the hearing had given
him a glimmer of hope, evident
in his wide boyish grin.
“I had the opportunity to tell
the committee what I thought
would be a better solution — a
grant of $1,000 to $1,500 — an
entitlement to a student to at-
tend either a state or independ-
ent college or university ...”
A student could then choose
the institution that would serve
his interests. As it is (his own
university has raised tuition
$340 this year) more students
may be forced to transfer to
JOHN R. SILBER
the state sector leaving empty
seats in independent schools. In
three years the low birthrate of
the ’60s will begin to be reflect-
ed in college enrollments “that
will fall rapidly.”
Then, too, independent uni-
versities use their own scarce
funds to supplement federal as-
sistance to students. Boston
University (19,200 full-time stu-
dents) provides an average of
$2,000 aid to each recipient of a
basic education opportunity
SIDE GLANCES
by Gill Fox
Ennisites Strongly
Oppose Contract
For Evaluation
Three Ennis industrial
representatives this week
appeared before the Ellis
County Commissioners Court in
opposition to a contract under
study which, if accepted, would
open the door for a valuation
update on large industrial and
utility company property.
Ken Ward and Bruce Brown,
members of the Ennis In-
dustrial Foundation, and Ennis
Chamber of Commerce
manager Jack McKay indicated
to the court that an annual
revaluation of industrial
property would discourage new
industry from locating in the
county.
A contract proposal for the
updating of industrial and
utility company property values
was submitted to the court Aug.
29 by E. M. Thomas of Prit-
chard and Abbott Valuation
Engineers of Fort Worth.
Mr. Brown said industrial
growth has been marked in the
western and eastern portions of
the county and contended that
“the reason they (industries)
come to Ellis County is because
they’ve been successful and
they make money.”
Mr. Brown said the valuation
of property should continue to
be handled by the com-
missioners and the county tax
office. He related that any in-
► crease in tax revenues from a
valuation update will probably
be offset by increases in prices
on the goods and services
produced by the affected in-
dustries.
“You and I, the taxpayers,
are going to pick up the bill,”
Mr. Brown said of the valuation
update proposal.
Mr. Ward added, “We’re
concerned about selecting one
group of taxpayers and raising
their taxes.”
County Judge Joe Grubbs
said the group’s concern stems
from a “communication gap”
and related that the court “is
not thinking of any countywide
revaluation.”
“We’re concerned with large
industries that Bettye (Tax
Assessor-Collector Mrs. Bettye
Meador) does not have the
enterprise to handle,” Judge.
Grubbs continued.
The county official
stressed that the contract with
the Fort Worth firm is “just
under consideration and has not
been accepted.”
Mr. Thomas of the
engineering firm said at the
previous court session that an
update of large industrial and
utility company property would
produce increased tax
revenues. The county would be
charged six cents per $100
valuation at 20 per cent
assessment on all property
handled by the company.
grant. Without the university’s
help the student could not use
the federal assistance program.
It is the kind of thing, he con-
tends, that is breaking the
banks of independent in-
stitutions trying to compete
with state universities where
tuitions are financed by tax-
payers and are “artificially
low.”
“Then, too, there is the budg-
et at the City University of
New York. Assistant professors
can earn $22,000 for nine
months’ work. There is no prec-
edent for the salary scale oper-
ating there.”
Such waste results when
“money that has not had to be
earned may be used without re-
straints that usually are auto-
matic when the responsibility
for producing income is im-
posed.”
A distinguished scholar on
the academic scene — an au-
thority on the philosopher Im-
manuel Kant — Silber begins
his long day at 7:30 a.m. and
ends it at midnight.
“I didn’t want to be a college
president to be a financial man-
ager of a large corporation,”
he says. “I wanted to work on
the intellectual problems of our
time that are badly distorted
“For example, B.F. Skinner
and the whole behavior pro-
gram,” he continued, “where
you treat a complex human
being with a rich consciousness
in lerms of his behavior that is
open to observation and you
treat that which is not obser-
vable as less than ultimately
PICTURE SHOWS steady progress on the new Pizza Hut for Ennis, just north
of Goodyear Store, on W. Ennis Avenue. The business is being installed by
Live Oak Foods, Inc., and is expected to be complete in six weeks. David
Deaver will be manager. He currently is operating the Pizza Hut in Waxahach-
ie. Mr. Deaver has a wife, Pam, who teaches in the Ennis Public Schools, and
a son, Todd, age 5.
real. . .”
Human motivation is fright-
fully complex and there are
glaring things wrong with the
conclusion, he says, “that tele-
vision doesn’t cause violence
because the observation of vio-
lence is available in movie
houses, books, elsewhere ...”
Seeing “King Lear” in a the-
ater knowing you are in a play
world is quite different from
turning on the television set in
your home “and having the
continued hacking away at hu-
man sensibilities. ..
“Instead of asking whether
television causes aggressive be-
havior, we should ask what is
the content of the child’s senso-
rium now that he has been ex-
posed to television for 15 years,
and is that altered sensorium
more prone to aggressive be-
havior ...”
That is what Silber wants to
be concerned with, because the
university curriculum should
enrich students in the study of
the complex concept of human
nature “and not some pathetic
little scientistic residue.”
If such a movement caught
on in colleges it would in time
have a profound influence on
the way in which we think
about ourselves, our society,
our world, he emphasizes.
Silber, a many-faceted,
charming personality and a
popular, eloquent speaker, was
chosen to head Boston Univer-
sity five years ago at a time of
student unrest, and knows he
would not have been appointed
“if there had not been a diffi-
cult situation.” He had left the
University of Texas where he
was dean of the undergraduate
College of Arts and Sciences,
after a well-publicized squabble
with its board of regents.
Born in San Antonio, where
he was graduated summa cum
laude from Trinity, he received
his MA and Ph.D. from Yale
and attended the University of
Texas Law School. He has been
the recipient of many awards
and honors.
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JAMAICA LAUNCHES
A ‘CAMERA SAFARI’
, PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica
• (;AP) — A “Camera Safari” is
tjie Jamaica Tourist Board’s
latest tourist activity in Port
Antonio.
’ The safari is a _ 2V2-hour
guided horseback ride into the
Blue Mountains, through ba-
nana, sugar and coconut plan-
tations. It includes lunch at
Rafters Rest at the mouth of
tjie Rio Grande River and pick-
lip at any Port Antonio hotel.
TEKELL SALVAGE
(The Little Green Building on
West Crockett)
We have purchased a complete
Cook's Paint Store
Free...for all
youngsters 8-13
Sign up now
for the 1975
Punt, Pass & Kick
Competition
SAVE!!
Retail Price
PAINTS
WALLPAPER
CARPET
ALL PAINTERS SUPPLIES
LARGE SELECTION OF PICTURES
There are only a few days left to
sign up for the 1975 Punt, Pass &
Kick Competition. This is your
chance to test your football skills
against other youngsters your
own age. It’s free, and all you
have to do is bring your parent or
guardian in and sign up. You still
have time to register and get your
free Tips Book. So hurry and
sign up today!
Registration
Ends October 3
Date
SAT., OCT. 4
Time
10 A.M.
Location
ENNIS HIGH
FOOTBALL FIELD
A Free Practice Clinic will be
conducted by the EHS coach-
ing staff on Sat., Sept. 27 at
10 A.M., at the Football Field.
Co-Sponsored by The Ennis Jaycees
VIC FREDRICKSON
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 216, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 11, 1975, newspaper, September 11, 1975; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth799413/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.