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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 11:49:17 EST
From: Anni Waters <CCANNI@mizzou1.bitnet>
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Subject: 12steps 1.1 (fwd)

The 12step program for academic techno-phobes is a fun read for a Monday!

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
NOTE: PLEASE DISCARD OLDER VERSIONS OF THIS TEXT.
Copyright 1993 by Janet Elizabeth Horton. Permission granted to circulate
electronically as long as this statement appears in it's entirety.
Naturally, I should get 98% of any profits and the remainder should be
donated to Hazelden Press.

12-STEPS FOR THE RECOVERING ACADEMIC TECHNO-PHOBE VERSION 1.1

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. If
you want what we have and are willing to go to any lengths to get it, then
you are ready to take certain steps. At some of these we balked. We thought
we could find an easier, softer way. With all the earnestness at our command
we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. These are the
steps we took, which are suggested as a program for recovery.

1.   We admitted we were powerless over pedagogy, that our curriculum vitae
had become unmanageable.

2.   We came to believe that a multi-media system with expandable comports
could restore us to sanity.

3.   We turned our will and our lives over to the care of information
science as we understood it.

4.   We made a fearless and searching inventory of our hardware
documentation, virus scanners, utilities and disk file storage space.

5.  We admitted to ourselves, to our deans and to another recovering
academic techno-phobe the exact nature of our technical ignorance.

6.   We became entirely willing to have a programmer remove all these
defects of comprehension.

7.   Finding no programmer capable of answers other than 'yes,' 'no' or
'sometimes,' we humbly asked junior-high students to teach us instead.

8.  We made a list of all hard-disk sectors we had harmed and became willing
to shell out the money for the utilities to repair them.

9.  We purchased entirely new systems every four years because even if we
had not destroyed our old ones they had already become obsolete.

10.  We continued to take an inventory of our disk space and before it
became full promptly admitted it.

11.  We sought, through magazines and software-for-dummy books, to improve
our conscious contact with the next generation, asking only for knowledge of
the memory requirements and the power to carry that out.

12.  Having had a new opportunity for publishing papers as a result of
following these steps, we carried this message to other techno-phobic
academics and practiced these principles in all our affairs.

Respectfully crafted and submitted by Janet Elizabeth Horton,
[C264299@mizzou1.missouri.edu] December 4, 1993 while in pursuit of graduate
scholarship in the University of Missouri School of Journalism. All rights
reserved.

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