Ii Earts Festi 01 Cording to Bookstore Manager, Merl Simmons
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Explanation and comment Discount decision By Dee Norton, Edit6r "Where can the money be put to its most effective use; in the student's pocket or in a larger single fund?" This is the question of the five per cent Bookstore dis- count as resolved by the Board of Control. Pullman, Washington, Friday, December 6, 1957 NUMBER 4t The motion, a recommendation to President French and the Board of Regents to repeal the five per cent dis- count, was passed by. the Board of Control" Wednesday night and will go to Dr. French and on to the Board of Regents for approval or disapproval. A recommendation by renaissance theme the Bookstore Board regarding the discount on class books Cu and supplies will follow the same route. The next Board of Regents meeting is slated for Jan. 16 in Tacoma. If .the recommendation is approved by the Board of Regents, the discount will be removed just as soon as possible ac- of Ii earts festi 01 cording to Bookstore Manager, Merl Simmons. The effect of the discount to the average student work- ed out to $5 ($26,908.45 - net profits for the fiscal year 1955-56 -, divided by 5,000 students). Before making any type of decision on evaluating the effectiveness of the discount, the Board of Control de- voted six weeks to gathering all possible information of the discount and areas where the money from the five per cent discount could be put to a more effective use for the benefit of the entire student body. This information was compiled into a text of 31 pages. Included in this booklet are the comparative financial statements from the Bookstore for the years 1955-56 and 1956-57, source and application of funds expended in construction of the CUB and Regents Hill, student fees related to the CUB, dis- tribution of resident students' annual tuition and fees, Union fees and budget, past minutes of the Board of Control and Bookstore Board discussing the discount, scholarships to WSC, Bookstore statements of profits, dividends and retained earnings, and where such past dividends were used, Bookie history, Bookstore articles of incorporation, college proposed major capital outlays and the ten-year plan for expansion. A straw vote of. the Band C gave top priority to scholarships as the most effective way of using the now "discounted" money, IF THE DISCOUNT WERE TO BE JIM WATSON and two of George Loisner's pieces of sculpture stand reody for student approvol at REPEALED. Thus, by it's vote passing the recommenda- the CUB Creative Arts festivai this weekend. Wotson will tell the story of a new kind of jazz. Art, tion, the student-elected Board of Control decided that the literature and music will be featured.-(Evergreen photo). arbitrary figure of $5 will be of more value to the en- Music, dance, and literature be the "Ceremony of Carols" of Various displays will he shown tire student body in the form of scholarships rather than will be featured in the "CUB Re- Benjamin Britten performed by during the four-day f est i v a l, in the individual's pocket. The careful consideration and naissance" program beginni n g the Oratorio Chorus, directed by Sculpture by George Laisner of lively discussion preceeding the final vote included the the four-day Creative Arts festi- Dr. C. W. Davis. A piano will the WSCArt faculty, will be pres- amount of student money now being used to payoff the val Dec. 8 through 11. accompany the voices in a musi- ented along with Zaner Miller, CUB. Other possible uses for the money that might be Jerry Standal will emcee the cal setting of old English texts Victor Moore, Harold Balzas and gained from discontinuing the discount included the pro- program. Heading the list of par- dating somewhat later than the Dorothy Marcuse. posed $548,000 further expansion of the CUB, a new foot- ticipants will be the Madrigal time of Geoffrey Chaucer. First floor of the CUB will be ball stadium, the ski bowl, and educational conferences. singers directed by Dr. C. W. An Orchesis presentation by the site of WSC's own student Davis. They will present tradi- Nancy Sheldrup and Margie Wer- art sbow. Paintings by Walter During the discussion, various scholarship programs tional madrigals and less fam- kau, "Study in Black" and "Ab- Hook, famous for his water-color and how the present WSC scholarship program compares liar carols. straction," will represent the work, of Montana University will with that of competitive schools were enumerated. The Madrigals will sing "0 Eyes of dance part of the program. also be shown. Oil paintings of sole source of scholarship money is through gifts and en- My Beloved," "In These Delight- Concluding the participants of farm scenes and historical events dowments. Being a land-grant institution, WSC does not ful Pleasant Groves," "Come All the program Sandra Gillette, vi- by silver haired artist Mrs. Grace have as large a fund for scholarships as private schools Ye Fair and Tender Ladies" and olinist, playing "Girl with the Meek, will be displayed, and are (Stanford, USC etc.) "The Farmer's Daughters." In- Flaxen Hair" and "Banjo and the for sale by contacting Kathy cluded in the list of carols will, Fiddle;" a reading by Annette Kanouse at Wilmer hall. According to information supplied by Dr. Harry Irwin, be "The Holly and the Ivy, "Fum Weissenborn and presentation of Other displays to be shown in- Chairman of Scholarship Standards committee, and Pat Fum" and "A Merry Christmas." prize winning poem and essay. clude a photographic display, Patterson, Alumni director and Coordinator of the WSC Also on the program will be a Refreshments will be served crafts display in the CUB base- Scholarship and Development fund, the most useful schol- West coast progressive jazz sym- during the intermission. There ment, artist of the month (a fam- arship is between $250 and $300 and there are present- posium. This group will present will be no charge for the pro- ous artist from the files) and ly 119 freshman scholarships in the range. There are both comments and live jazz. An- gram, sponsored by the CUB arts Christmas display by the ad- many others but their cash in-hand value has remained the other feature of the program will committee. vanced floriculture class. same as at their time of initiation, and they are quite small. It was painted out that last spring there were 300 Festival introduces applications from high school students with a GPA of 3.4. Police science open house Most of the 300 cited "need" as their reason for apply- new type jazz-- ing. To these applicants, we had less scholarships to give. Something new and fresh in A very high percentage of those that did not receive aids the way of live jazz music will Suspicous of your mate? from WSC are not in college today. be a feature of this year's The University of Washington .is considered our great- Creative Arts Festival, at 7:30 est competitor for high school students in the state, and p.rn., Sunday, in the CUB ball- Dr. Irwin feels that they have somewhere over three room. Po!oygraph won' f lie - times the number of scholarships. Jim Watson, leader of the By Cbuck McGrew ing and educational to the gener- It must be remembered that: cam nus dance band known as Worried wives may have their al public, and will give them some 1. Bookstore dividends will be declared only when the 'Pastels, will provide the spouses subjected to lie-detector concept of behind-the-scenes ac- there are surplus profits. narration for a symposium on tests and expert questioning from tivities of' police work in gener- 2. These dividends from surplus profits are automati- West Coast jass aided by a 4-10 ]1, m. today and tomorrow, al." live-progressive jazz group. cally turned over to the ASSCW fund to be admin- at the police science department's A bootleggers' still will be set "A brief resume of the West open house at Morrill hall. istered by the Board of Control. This is standing pol- Coast jazz movement will be up by Treasury dep art men t icy. Burnell Uptagrafft, open house agents of the Alcohol-TobaccoTax given along with live demon- 3. A repeal of the discount does not necessarily mean chairman, said that the affair unit, who will show its operations strations by the jazz group," should be "interesting, enlighten- a dividend will always be declared but if declared stated Watson. "This music will and explain their problems. Up- tagrafft has said that refresh- will mean a proportionately larger dividend. point up the many changes 4. The portion of the ASSCW fund to be used for schol- which have occurred in jazz ments will not be served at the during the last few years." Huston trip open house. arships is still to be determined. "Arrangements being use d Other displays and exhibits will 5. The Board of Control is elected by the student body. are the latest in modern reviewed by include police ballistics, firearms, sounds and are typical of the police photography, narco tic s, current "gray flannel" type SOX delegates scientific crime laboratory work, ---.,---Hey Pig Slickers!---- jazz," explained Watson. "The FOllr delegates and advisor and educational films. The films compositions are the creative Maynard Hicks will tell of their being shown are "Penitentiary", We the students of the noble and illustrous School of Pharmacy work of such well Imown jazz recent experiences at the Sigma "Defensive Driver", and "Ameri- do accept the presnmptious challenge of the fuzzy faced, puny, pig- artists as Dave Pell"Shorty Delta Chi, national professional can Cop." The film "Boy in stickers of the mud flats of the campus.