~lUS WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY Volume 8, Number 12 March II, 1960 NEW EDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY JEAN ANOUILH FACULTY MANUAL IS TO BE PUBLISHED (The Department of Speech will A NEW .edition of the Faculty Manual, the Faculty Executive Committee. The present "The Lark," by Jean Anouilh, the official statement of the standards publication will include sections on Friday and Saturday, March 11 and and policies pertaining to the employ­ "Administration and Organization," 12, in Bryan Hall Auditorium, at 8:15. ment of faculty members at Washing­ "Faculty Personnel Policies," and on Tickets are priced at $.75 and are on ton State, will be published and dis­ other matters of interest to members sale at the Bookstore and the Corner tributed this spring. The 1960 edition of the faculty. Drug.) wiU contain revisions of many sec­ The point of view of the Manual is tions of the previous edition of the perhaps best expressed in the "Intro­ TWENTY-THREE years ago, in 1937, Manual, and the policies set forth are duction" to the publication, where the the- young French playwright Jean those determined upon after discus­ following statement appears: "It is the Anouilh was the subject of an inter­ sion with all interested groups, either policy of the Board of Regents to pro­ view appearing in a leading French directly or by representation through vide terms and conditions of employ­ literary periodical. "When I was ten," ment as liberal, depei1dable, and ex­ Anouilh is reported to have said in the DANCE AND BRIDGE plicit as state laws and sound man'age­ interview, "I was , already writing ment will allow. The purpose of such plays, and they were in verse. But I explicit understandings is to insure only managed short plays-one-acters, THE FACULTY Wives' Club will hold conditions under which qualified fac­ or plays where three acts would play a semi-formal dinner dance and bridge ulty members may wish to come here for much less than an hour. I was party on Saturday evening, March 19, and to remain here. sixteen before I wrote a play that was at P.M., in the CUB ballroom. 7 :30 "The Board of Regents and the as long as a real play. I found that Mrs. Bradley's four-piece orchestra President are agreed that, in matters play and read it recently-it was not will play for dancing between nine of concern to faculty and administra­ bad. The title was 'The Woman on o'clock and midnight, and bridge with tion alike, such as appointment, pro­ the Mantelpiece'-it is the story of a prizes will be available for those who man who has too much respect for a motion, salary, and termination of wish to play. The dinner will be a service, the policies outlined in this woinan and stands her on the mantel­ served meal. piece, if you see what I mean." Manual will be followed in faithful Members may secure tickets at the adherence to the principles stated. It In the years following 1937, Jean Chamber of Commerce office in the must· be recognized that there is no Anouilh has become an internationally Washington Hotel from Mrs. Milton intention of permitting liberal employ­ known playwright. His plays-Eury­ Mosher between 8 :00 A.M. and 4, :00 ment or tenure provisions to become dice, Antigone, Colombe, Waltz of the P.M., Monday through Friday. Table a refuge for the incompetent faculty Toreadors, Thieves' Carnival, and The reservations should then be made with member. Such provisions insure the Lark-have been important contribu­ Mrs. W. Frank_ Scott by March 11. rights of those who will contribute to tions to the world of modern-day the development of the institution; drama. They must not become a safeguard for Anouilh's own life has not been CHAMBER MUSIC those who can make no such contribu­ particularly dramatic. (There is a tion." story that the only difficulty he ex­ perienced quring the German occupa­ THE PULLMAN Chamber Music Series, tion of Paris was when he was dis­ now in its fifth year, has arranged covered u~ing a telescope to see what for a return engagement by the Ama­ VESPERS fresh veg'etables had arrived at the deus Quartet, the group that inaugur­ market. f His father was a tailor and ated the series in November, 1955. THE SuNDA Y afternoon vespers, March his mother a violinist in a casino or­ The program will be given in Todd 13, will feature the seventy-voice WSU chestra. · In his search for a career, Hall Auditorium on Thursday evening, Choir known as the Crimson Choral­ Anouilh 1\attempted the study of law March 17, at 8:15 P.M. Admission is iers. Included on the program will be but after a·y~ar and a half threw it up. by season ticket or single admission a group of selections sung by a twenty­ For a time, i:i~ worked in an adver­ ticket available at the music office or four-voice ensemble selected from the tising firm in P1it-i!:l"- where he wrote at the door on the night of the per­ larger group for touring purposes. copy setting forth the-'"~rtues of par­ formance. Included on the program Sunday afternoon's program will he ticular brands of automofil}fs and un- are quartets by Haydn, W altcin, and given in Bryan Hall Auditorium at ( Continued on page 3)"-. Brahms. 4:00 P.M. A TIRADE "DOWN WITH PHILOSOPHER-KINGS" OFFERED AS ANTI-FACULTY SLOGAN BECAUSE I lack confidence in most down a manhole," and are united in answers, this has been the intellectual ( people's common sense, I am seldom support of a "doctrine endorsing social fashion since the thirties. Styles amazed at anyone's strange behavior. illiteracy for the bulk of mankind." change, however, and this one is about I usually anticipate the worst, and if, In doing this, they have set themselves to. .not in the sterile direction of contrary to my expectations, some­ against the rest of American society. philosopher-kingship, but in a more thing less than catastrophe occurs, I Moreover, "what can they offer the optimistic democratic direction alto­ am pleasantly surprised. Hungry Societies of Asia and Africa, gether." (Although it may be hard to Occasionally, however, I am shocked pregnant with revolution and gestating believe, this is word for word what ( out of my customary lassitude. This with freedom in the midst of a popula­ Mr. Stern has written.) tion explosion?" And one might well happened last week when I. stumbled ask: "What indeed?" Now what is one to make of all this across an article entitled "Down with hodge-podge? First, it must, I think, Philosopher - Kings," by Milton R. But professors are guilty of more be admitted that Mr. Stern doesn't Stern, Assistant to the Dean, Division than mere attempts to restrict educa­ know a great deal about professors of General Education, New York Uni­ tional opportunity · in order to create and that some ( ? ) of his statements versity. This was as angry a rash of a new educational elite. Mr. Stern are just pure bunk. It is probably words as I have fought through in suggests that their crimes may be even true, and certainly understandable, some days, and if Mr. Stern's rage more heinous. He writes that "some that most professors ( although not all) sometimes gets the better of his logic, intellectuals are corrupted and become prefer bright students to dull ones. there is no question but that he has corrupters by the very fact that they But I have heard no professor ever the ax out for someone. And, after purvey trash in mass communications defend the proposition that "the pur­ reading his article three times, I · sus­ for money and publicity-celebrity." suit of excellence," as Mr. Stern calls pect I know who his prospective vic­ They have become "somewhat seedy, it, should become the first step in the tims are. intellectual Quizlings on television," creation of an elite based upon birth Mr. Stern is unhappy with the aca­ and, perhaps to the surprise of some and class. There has been a great deal demic profession. In fact, he is down­ uninformed persons, Mr. Stern warns of talk about raising the standards of right peeved at college and university that "power and its modern by-pro­ university education. But this has professors, and when he completes his ducts, publicity and celebrity, are seldom carried the inference that edu­ bill of particulars against them, one temptations that beset those who would cational opportunity should be restrict­ wonders how the rascals have escaped live the life of the mind." ed to a few. In fact, most proposed hanging. If Mr. Stern is to be be­ Also, educators have not provided schemes for raising educational stand­ ( lieved, these academicians are ugly enough answers, they have not been ards are quite timid and are hardly \ fellows indeed, and it is well we have positive enough, but have devoted their designed to prevent large numbers of been warned against their designs. time to the asking of silly questions. qualified students from gaining a col­ lege degree ( and in some cases even The charges against the professors On this point, Mr. Stern writes two a college education) . Most professors are so many that I hope I may be paragraphs, and I must admit that I are more lenient than they should be. excused if I dwell only on the most find these extremely rough going. But (I cannot hazard a guess as to what important of our author's accusations.