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David Zinkin <dzinkin2@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
: In article <9clcad$amd$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
:  Dan Alt <dan@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu> wrote:

:> John Martin <martin@fafnir.astr.cwru.edu> wrote:
:> : conspiracy."  What exactly is this immovable force Dan?  I'd like to
:> : know who this foe you fear so much is that you won't name them.
:> 
:> 	Now you're making me out to sound like Dave Zinkin.. :)

: Doesn't it just enrage you to know that I've been vindicated time and 
: time again, Dan?

	Now that you mention it, no.

: Clearly it would be too painful for you to publicly admit that I was 
: right, and you and your accomplices were wrong, all these years.

	This would be funny, if I didn't know you were
serious.  I have no accomplices.  I still wouldn't know who the hell you
were if I saw you in public.  I have never interacted with you in any
way other than on this buletin board.

  Don't 
: worry... I won't force you to do the right thing.  God knows most of the 
: CWRUgenners of my time didn't care about the difference between right 
: and wrong -- assuming that they knew the difference to begin with.

	There are no great "Right and Wrong" issues involved in posting
on cwru.gen.  I will be the first person to admit that this board is
completely meaningless, except as a mildly amusing diversion.

:> 	I don't think there's a conspiracy of people going out of there
:> way to make life bad.  Fearless Leader isn't in the back room sending
:> out Boris and Natasha to poison the food, unstock the vending machine,
:> and change the blueprints for the Lewis building.

: That doesn't describe all of the administrators and faculty, to be sure 
: -- and I've never said otherwise.  But there are just enough people who 
: fit that description to poison the entire CWRU atmosphere.

	Which description?  Short, Russian accent, wears trench coat and
fedora, with sinister mustache?	 Or tall, with slinky dress and cigarette
holder.  (and Russian accent)  Or did you mean Fearless Leader himself?

:> 	Rather there is an institutional mindset that the students are 
:> fundamentally unimportant except as revenue sources.  This mindset
:> permeates most levels of the adminstrative side of the school.

: And it comes directly from the people described above.

	Mob psychology is a facinating field.  One of the things you
learn is that the mindset of a group is not necessarily directly related
to the individual mindset of any of its members.

:> 	You CAN'T do anything about it.  But feel free to try.

: You can if enough people care.  Unfortunately, CWRU teaches students not 
: to care about anyone, or anything, but themselves -- because that's 
: exactly how the administrators and professors act.  Thankfully, unlike 
: most CWRUgenners, I didn't succumb.

	Congratulations on achieving a personal victory.  That sort of success
is certainly possible.  I meant that you can't change the institutional 
mindset.

: others from a similar fate.  I'm proud of the fact that I've personally 
: talked at least two hundred people out of attending CWRU; even if the 
: school doesn't know the difference, those two hundred people will.

	It's certainly been awkward for me this year as recruitment 
coordinator for the music department.  I've learned to stick with the facts
and make absolutely no comparisons to other schools in my presentation.

-- 
Daniel Alt    Department of Music - Case Western Reserve University

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world
   is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." - Edward Elgar