IPA
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Our
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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 opportunity for
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