<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 2, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Elwood Doss wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hi Wim,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">That's a shame!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The U of A just does not know what they are losing.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Absolutely. Whether it is a budget problem or whatever, UA is making a huge mistake. Wim has been very dedicated to that program. I would be very interested in knowing the "why" here. I know that from the beginning there was a budget issue there. I hope for Wim's sake that is the cause for this. If it is a job performance issue, I don't know what else the faculty at UA expects they are going to get.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">One of our problems is we work with, and I'm making a broad</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">generalization here, university musicians...moody, self centered,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">jealous, picky, demanding.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Yes, they live in a very distant world from the rest of us. Not so much the moody, self-centered and jealous part of being a musician. I understand that. It isn't the picky and demanding part. You get that in all fields. It is the disconnected from reality part that spending so much life in academia imparts.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Music can be like a drug. It is habit forming. Addictive. Being addicted to music can cause one to be disconnected from reality in much the same way that addition to drugs or alcohol are. I look at many of the people I work with and wonder how they could possibly survive in this world without academia.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Watch them. They tend to be clueless about what has to happen around them to enable them to live their dreams. And they expect everyone else to give up life and family to further their pursuits, because that is what they have done.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I also sent Wim a private email, but will reiterate here, Wim, that you and your wife will be in mine and Paula's prayers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>