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THE DONS ARE UP

S

IN ARMS

-against the snoopers

OON another academic year will begin at Britain's universities. And a new subject of dispute can be expected to crop up in the senior common rooms as the dons reassemble after their summer vacations.

Should the State exercise closer control over the public money spent by the univer sities?

Or woudel such

control threaten their highly prized Bendemic freedom and inde- pendence?

A body of M.P. which watches over the administration of the taxpayers' money has suggested that the State should know more about how the universities spend the cash they get. The Dons—or some of them-ard up in arms. They think this is the thin end of a wedge that will open the academic door to

a political Inquisition,

by RUDOLF KLEIN

J I McKie, Senior Tulor of Brasenose College, Oxford, goo on record stating: "The threat to acudente freeduin is a real uns

&

The case put by Mr Benson

convincing one. Before the war the universities were largely Independent of Government aid. Then State grants accounted for

more

now two-

| skd Mr Benson to reply only third of their incom?. The lesue has been forced on

of Today the position has been the attention of the dons and to this argument on behar

Committee of

The Publie reversed,

Treasury latest the of the public by the

An contributes

thin answer: His 01

of Acounts, the Committee report

thirds of their revenue. Pubile Accounts, a body of MPs emphatic "Nonsense!" The com- whose job it is to see that the mittee, he explains, is not con- "What It taxpayer's money is not wasted cerned with policy, by inefficient administration.

concerned about is proper necouming. 10 500 thai the money la spent for the purpose for which it was granted and with economy."

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The membership of this com- mitice is significant. Its chair- man is Mr George Benson, the ex-Manchester grammar school boy who in now Socialist MP for Chesterfield. But a majority of the members are themselves that university graduates nine aut independence?" of 15with Oxford and Cam-

bridge predominating.

No one could therefore think thai the committee's recom~ mendations-which are unanim- prompted either by hostility to the universities or by a spirit of envious molice.

Qusare

The Government's Auditor- General, days the committee, should be allowed to examine the accounts of the University Grants Committee. This is the body, made up largely of dons, which distributes the Treasury's money to the universities,

Moderation

"How," asks Mr Benson, “can interfere with academic

NOW

Immunity

to a campaign for a cut in the grants themselves,

M's may well ask themselves; Why should we dole out moncy to the univesities if we hava no of checking how it is means spent! No other body in receipt cnjoys sucti of public funds Immunity-excopt the Secret

Service

Of course there is no reason why the

should universities oppose the proposals put forwardi by Mr Benson and his fellow MPs.

It is absurd to presend th acudimde freedom is so jopardy. Academie freedom is the right to teach what one wants in the It is not the

The demand for clawr finan- cial checks can therefore be expected to grow more powerful, not less so, if the universities way one wants.

inspection oppose

of right 40 spend other people's accounts. Continued refusal by money in one's own way--which the universities may even lead may not be the most efficient.

the

THAT

EXPELLING

THE HOLIDAY HAS DONE YOU GOOD, EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED

By CEDRIC CARNE

"HAS yourself the question when you have been hit by those TAS my holiday really done me any good?". You must have

after-the-holiday blues that affect most people at times.

How grim It can be, that return to reality. Children tired and fretful. Shoulders score from unlikely sunlight or just from carrying too many bags. Muscles stiff from, unaccustomed walking or swimming.

No wonder so many people say, "I could do with another holiday straighi

away.

I need a rest. “

No wonder you vemo nero people like my patient Mr B.44.

"I #ayod at home, doctor" Me Bater said when I un cross him the other day. "Organising the family on the bench raises my blood pressunt. Going abroaci makes me verish from those rich foods.

"No, holidays don't do you my good. It's an illusion. What I want is pomo pills, ixt a holliday, to buck me up."

But he was wrong you know

Even if you took a holiday in the Sahara (1 would do you some good, For it was a wise man who wrote, "A change in aa good

as a rest,"

*

Let me explain it this way. You must have remarked what happens when you go into a room full of flower. At first you love their small, but after a tinyč you do not notice it,

"You just get used to it," said Mr Bates.

But that's not exoctly what happens,

sa

nerve

dir

At first you are conscious of the smell of the flowers becauBE the nose conveys i message to this appropriate centre in the brain, But after a time the nerve gets tired and cannot react to the same continnill stdinuduo,

A similar thing happens with the nerver that rend manges to the muscles. If one of these nerves in stimulated, may electrically, the muscle fupplico will sorgraçi, But if these little shocks are given to the nerve too rupidly, the ngrvo does not pass on the méanges. It gets too tired and the muscle remains slack.

"I see what you're getting at, doctor," Mr Bates said. "You mean if one single nerve needs a change of stimulus to do is work properly, the body and the mind as a whole need this chunga even more?'

The accountant in the bursary Las no danger to the univer- sities, indeed he is probably the best safeguard against the in-

of the lecture vasion

room by The

would politician-which

Once constitute the real threat the

urc accounts

to open inspection no one will be able to sty: Why are the universities so Ceretive if they have nothing discreditable to hide?

The only danger to seadomie freedom B academie servatism.

this Dy opposing

reform, the unl long-overdue

the versities put them ælves in wrong.

to

By accepting it, they would be in mucte stronger positiun defend themselves agulhsi any dangers the future may bring.

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WE ARE

THEM-

SHALL never forget The reporter who flew out of the Cairo after the the flavour of life in Nasser police had tried to "frame" him as a spy LCairo in August 1956. -

It is a heady compound of supplies an up-to-date Guide to Home Town for Messrs Nassef and Kafafi, the expelled Egyptians:

perspiration, of jasmin, of slices of mauve water- one melon and the mad- that only those accounts which doning insistence of Arab

The

commitice makes important reservation. It asks

· By DONALD EDGAR

relate to non-recurrent grants" music. should be open to Inspection. Thus its proposals would affect

where blows.

A

cool breeze

It is fascinating, exciting

is near by.

a fifth of the

in academic circles.

There are times when every-

So the gossip goes on. You can dine there or steamer such na the Khayyam

on the Nite. is charming romantic.

The night that falls coolness. Metropolitan' Hotel. To'

You don't want to go to bed. For you know what awaits you A room so incredibly hot that you spend the night sleepless.

You

ring for A bollie lemonade. The boy brings in

cable from London,

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And then the harsh street crics begin, A radio starts an Arab song that tears at your They nerves.

on Omar

CONTACTS

NEW day has begun and it A wht be calls an the cool, British Embassy; the Moorish palace with ottomans and

beautiful French (DWTS

the

air-corfiioned new

where It diplomnis work; the graceful

Villa In fashionable Zamalok

always $0. That man is one of the richest Jews in town. came to him the other day and the funds which go to pay for the perfect background to That great hotel Menn House, asked him to subscribe to some There are few Nasser charity A matter of buildings and other permanent the drama, either tragedy or Engilh walking through the £2,000. He refused. So the Bixtures about

and or swimming in the tax people came along £34 million which the Govern-force, that is being played gardens

fined him 200,000," ment is this year giving to the along the banks of the Nile, pool, universities.

Though there are Germans The committee's recommenda- thing seems so normal that the though, tording it as if they had tions are therefore remarkable sense of Insecurtly that haunts won the Battle of Alamein.

But it is the nights that you only for their moderation. Yet you as you walk through the

where a friend lives; Lappas to long for in Cairo in

August no one would think so, judging bazaars seems ridiculous.

and by the reception they have had

But you must go back to the meet a contact and have lunch; Times when Moses, the digni- brings a suspicion of

the the clesta hour when you try to спопес отка You babbo and fied dragornan, of, the Metro-

the jour work roof garden where

against a rethargy that At their mildest the protest-politan, bos arranged a trip to so ta the Semiramis,

nalists dircuss the crisis and makes telephone call ingo "done" adopt the tone of the Pyramids, **

eight and nine o'clock the cock the beautifully dressed spies absurd effort of will. embarrassed severity

tail bar on the roof begins to drink whiskies and rodas and And everywhere Egyptians All Up

up.

unashamedly listeft in...

eyeing you as you pass, Sneer- The men of the international Oxford's Vice-Chancellor. You drive out to Giza post set drift in... dark, handsome if you get tired of talking ng when you have passed.

A city full of aims given to Hay reels that the existing charming houses built in wearing willte dinner-jackets. politics-you can go on to the

as Abdin Palace, where French style of 80 years: Their women are elegant

Farouk of untrained. populace by arrangement works no well that the

A city in which a Intervention by the Auditor Past splendid American women can only be in a land once lived. They give quite a NALST Gemerná would only complfonto

insolently where sorvants are still cheap, good cabaret in the gardens false rumour: spread deliberate-

Through Whatever their nationality now. But it's best to go:eate dy would send a wave of fury

an Ignorant and

Vianatio the altuation. The supervision bearing huge burdens of fodder. emireland by the University

You Admir the

is an exciting new macinating. ¿Thond much about Grants ? Comerátion, Mr Smith and find yourself much more quiro

exciting Pér belleros, is adequabaj, aj, impressed than your thought you nationalities they talk French, melody, "Axiba," by one of the

So best of the Europe tape it the sense of im Wouki be

clothes are French,

And the Rfyptian

permanice, of apprehension that 50% e tha:) women over, uider the palms,

usually

reserved for delinquent under-

aduntes. Typical is Mr. A.H.

CONTRASTS

ago.

CATE and camels

Other dons and less re-

And then you have strained. They babaye as though the Inqulation) were about to | drink. iny. Marcu

Between

Pyramids and in Cairo it is unwise to in-for-Samara, the belly-canbus oeople, VA KARERA

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"Yes," I answered. "Holidays do you good, though you don't even notice it“

And that is true, even if it malas solidly, even if you quarrel with the wife, slop the children in exasperation, get inferior food, fod yourself fleeced by the hotel-keeper and use every word in your swear vocabulary,

"Apart from the change." I said, "being out in the fresh air and taking exercise tones up the muscles ne stimulates the cir

culation. And it do you good being exposed to some sunlight, even if it's generally cloudy."

Why? Because sunlight con- verla ม substance called dehydrocholesterol, which is normally present in the skin. Trybus Vitamin D And this vitamin helps the absorption Into the system of calcium and phosphate from what you eat,

"Calcium and Phosphate. That's needed for our bones and teeth among other things, iam ?"

Mr Bates. “Still, you can take those sub- stances in pill form,"

asked

"You can't take a holiday in tablets,"

I replied. "In 1994, maybe, but not now 50 take

1

some time off,

"Incidentally," "what is your job, anyway?"

"I manage

he said.

continued.

a travel agency."

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