room scheduling

[Ron Nossaman]

>  I will know about them immediately. Now, if I can just get the faculty 
> to plan more than a day in advance....
>
>Wim

Simple. Add the provision in the scheduling software that all piano 
reservations must be made XXX hours in advance - for instance, 36 hours. 
Then when, not if, someone requests a piano for that open slot tomorrow 
morning, it will be denied by the input routine. You can't argue with an 
input routine. I've tried. That's the way this sort of thing is done 
everywhere. Whether it's a layer of impenetrable and unaccountable 
bureaucracy behind a desk, or a software input routine that can't be 
appealed to, the user has no recourse for argument, and no one has to be 
politically accountable for dealing with it. Those with the power to do so 
will bypass the process and go straight to someone with whom they have 
political pull to get what they want, but that will happen where ever you 
go and in whatever situation you will ever be in. Meanwhile, the input 
routine keeps the bulk of the anonymous and powerless irritants on the 
other side of the wall.

Ron N