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all the responsibilities that are a part of his process of thinking. The university that encourages him assumes these same responsibilities. This level of education has an unpredictable quality about it that la both trial and its promise. To be helpful, a university will risk the trial in order to gain the promise. The general morale that is generated in the reaponsibla educational entorprAse is the best afs-guard aga;n3t the misuse of educational frdom. Translated into classroon t,cras this vitsal.;s that teac,hers mast b6 gnhampered jn their exprion, that, their he1 of mading materia112, for their students must be wide-rang.A.ng and that /4hey nust sneourag6 individuality of thinking and exproe,sion among their 3tulens. When eithev toachers or studeni%s fear to do this, the essontial character of a university is lost- It is understood, of cours% that the frcedom of both teacher and student is exerciged within the general bouLdari5a of the university's nature and purposes. Thu specific fe3ponsibilitios of the Amerif;an University at Cí,vn A, To serve Egypt, the United Arab Republic end t.he Middle East The very existence of the Amerioan University at Cairo i evidnuce of 1.“ intention to be helpful to the Middle East. The iyìstitution is predisposed in faIior of the ArLb. Its otagf, mombes, bath Middl6 Eaatorn and Western, naturally reflect this N.edispot31tIon, and work as coni:erned. friends. The forty yeeTs of lifo of the University b6aP witness to its basic orientation, It program has nc.-yer bQen ia-sensitive to araa influences and com;epts. Program suLAtions are and have been welcome from any soureo mnd havo always been givan carc3ful consideration. The University roaches out to the world fro