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Responding to your particular query about piano labs, our department =
has a course fee for group piano courses for that precise purpose. It =
paid for the current equipment (Rolands, beginning as a hybrid loan =
program in which we bought an instrument or two each semester), and =
builds up now to pay for any maintenance and replacement as =
needed.</DIV><DIV> Course fees, course fees, course fees - we =
couldn't function without them. We have one college wide (College of =
Fine Arts, including theater, dance, art and art history as well as =
music) devoted to "technology" (used for computer labs, for staff to =
take care of computers, for software, for LCD projectors, etc); one =
applied to all music department courses, dedicated to acoustic piano =
replacement and maintenance; various fees attached to individual courses =
or programs, with money collected dedicated to those courses or programs =
(eg, jazz history uses its fees to have a couple live performances each =
semester, as well as for purchase of recorded music; orchestra pays for =
rental of parts and scores, guest conductors and soloists, extra =
musicians to fill needed parts). I have mixed feelings about the =
principle of "socking it to the student" at a "state-sponsored" =
institution, but as a practical matter, course fees have transformed our =
department from unbearable to "quite reasonable, thank you very =
much."<DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: =
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"><DIV>Regards,</DIV><DIV>Fred Sturm</DIV><DIV>University of New =
Mexico</DIV><DIV><A =
href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</A></DIV><DIV> "Art is =
not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape =
it." </DIV><DIV>Bertolt Brecht</DIV><BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct =
31, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Richard Murphy wrote:</DIV><BR =
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT =
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px">Hi =
Wim, <BR> How about a budget. Is there anyway =
to have monies building up over a period of years to replace the piano =
labs when all the pianos start to die at about the same time. Equipment=
requests are a yearly yes or no and when we get a no, then the piano =
lab continues to fall apart yet for another entire academic year. The =
justification for this equipment seems obvious to everyone excepty the =
budget committee.<BR> Richard<BR> <BR> <BR> On 10/30/05 11:19 AM, "<A =
href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@aol.com</A>" <<A =
href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@aol.com</A>> wrote:<BR> =
<BR> </SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN =
style="font-size:12.0px"><FONT face="Arial">As a member of the =
Economic Affairs Committee, I've been asked to write an article about an =
economic concern CAUT's have. I am not sure what to write about, so I am =
asking you guy for suggestions. What concern do you guys have, besides =
your salary?<BR> <BR> Wim<BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT =
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