<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space;-khtml-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=Section1> Well put, Jeff!<o:p></o:p> Joy!<o:p></o:p> Elwood<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Rev. Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT<o:p></o:p> Piano Technician/Technical Director<o:p></o:p> Department of Music<o:p></o:p> 145 Fine Arts Building<o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Martin<o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Martin</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">TN</st1:State>  <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">38238</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p> Office: 731/8811852<o:p></o:p> Fax: 731/881-7415<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:49 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">College and University Technicians</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [CAUT] bummer<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> On May 2, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Elwood Doss wrote:<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> Hi Wim,<o:p></o:p> That's a shame!  The U of A just does not know what they are losing.<o:p></o:p> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </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.<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> One of our problems is we work with, and I'm making a broad<o:p></o:p> generalization here, university musicians...moody, self centered,<o:p></o:p> jealous, picky, demanding. <o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <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.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </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.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </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.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </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.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div> Jeff<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> Jeff Tanner, RPT<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>