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Participants...
The Indiana Percussion Association exists
fundamentally for its participants: youth, staff,
and supporters. This is always the underlying
consideration when the Indiana Percussion
Association makes its decisions. Thus, the IPA
contributes to the cultural responsibilities held by
all deserving youth activities: devotion to the
individual, preservation of society, and improvement
of mankind.
Standards...
The Indiana Percussion Association is committed to
inspire its participants to achieve ever higher and
higher standards. We ascribe to the concept that
artistic, aesthetic, and creative standards are
important, but inspiration must balance with the
primary need of providing recognition and dignity
for all participants. Thus, the IPA accepts the
quest for wholesome experience and respect for all
despite the dilemmas inherent in the conflicting
needs to create higher standards.
Competition...
The Indiana Percussion Association has chosen
competition as its method for organizing youth
activities in pursuit of high standards of
achievement. We maintain that competition is only
the means, subject to whatever controls are
necessary to serve the true end -- the participants.
Thus, the IPA is organized and administered on the
principle that its leaders are professionals
teaching by example both in and out of the
competitive arena. As mature persons, the IPA
leaders know that our youth will learn life
attitudes from all the observations of and
interactions with those adults who are their models.
Non-Discrimination...
The Indiana Percussion Association treats every
participant as a unique individual possessing
inherent dignity on his/her own. All participants
are regarded as worthy human beings, equally
deserving of our available time, thoughts, and
energies. Thus, the IPA does not discriminate on the
basis of race, gender, creed, sexual orientation,
national origin, or cultural background. Its
activities are based on the credo that all
participants and program styles start with equal
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