From: moller@austin.ibm.com (Chris Moller)
Newsgroups: austin.general
Subject: Re: HS Band Recommendations
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:17:13 GMT
Reply-To: moller@austin.ibm.com
Organization: As little as I can get away with.

With respect to:

In article <1992Sep29.154725.18730@news.vanderbilt.edu>, sayre@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu (Frank Sayre) writes:
> >
> >
> >In article <lbqpi5INN5oh@ai.cs.utexas.edu>, tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony
> Yen) writes:
> >|>> 
> >|>> I have a friend who is thinking of moving down here with his
> daughter,
> >|>> and he's looking to settle near a high school with a good band
> >|>> program.  Does anyone have any recommendations?
> >
> >With all due respect to your friend, aren't there a few things a bit more
> >important in a high-school curriculum than "a good band program"?  You
> >know: math, literature, computers, biology, history, things like that? 
> Or
> >have they quit teaching that kind of stuff?
> >
> >
> And you're just the person the we need to explain it to us, eh Chris?
> 
> You are arguing ex silentio (i.e. fallaciously) that a failure to mention
> a broad curriculum indicates a disregard for same. But there are other
> plausible reasons, starting with Mr. Yen's apparent desire to find an
> answer to his friend's specific question. Chris, a little brush up on
> logic 
> might save further embarassment.
> 
> BTW, I choose to post these comments to suggest to outside
> readers of austin.general that Austinites (present or former) are not 
> all captious hot shots looking for the nearest target.
> 
> Anthony, I'd recommend that you or your friend call the University 
> Interscholastic League in Austin and ask which high school won last 
> year's band competitions; also call Austin High and Johnston High 
> (perhaps also Westlake and McCallum) and request the names of the 
> band directors and address the question directly to them.
> 
> Good luck to your friend.
> 
> ================================================================
> Frank C. Sayre
> sayre@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

And:

In article <1992Sep29.153603.15311@watson.ibm.com>, johniac@johniac.austin.ibm.com (John Iacoletti) writes:
> In article <1992Sep28.152701.25345@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, moller@austin.ibm.com (Chris Moller) writes:
> |> With all due respect to your friend, aren't there a few things a bit more
> |> important in a high-school curriculum than "a good band program"?  You
> |> know: math, literature, computers, biology, history, things like that?  Or
> |> have they quit teaching that kind of stuff?
> 
> If she wants to be a professional musician, then a good band program
> might be the most important consideration.  Do be so parochial.
> 
> -- 
> John Iacoletti       IBM AWD Austin       Internet: johniac@austin.ibm.com
>         My opinions do not reflect the views of the IBM Corporation
> "It takes a big man to cry.  And it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
>                                                               -- Jack Handey

Enough already!  Of all the various slings and arrows I've fired into
these newsgroups, this one, which I'd thought to be fairly innocuous,
has gotten me the most flames.  In addition to these follow-ups, I've
gotten irate e-mail and passing strangers stop me in the hallways to
tell me to quit being such a compu-dweeb.

I'm sorry!  I didn't mean to offend anyone!  Really!

-- 
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					|   with the dictates of reason."
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