[10047] in APO-L
Change the Toast Song Completly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven R. Crawford)
Mon Nov 7 08:11:57 1994
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 08:07:19 -0500
Reply-To: "Steven R. Crawford" <crawf_s@CS.ODU.EDU>
From: "Steven R. Crawford" <crawf_s@CS.ODU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
It appears that everyone wants to change the toast song. "It's too male
centric", "we've done it before", and "it does not go back to our
founding" are the three main arguments I have been hearing. Fine, you
want to change the toast song, do us a real big favor and change the tune
while you are at it. I mean if we are going to change words and/or make
it longer, then at least lets make it snappy. Better yet, lets drop it
all together. When did not have one in "the beginning", 1934(?) is the
earliest mention of it. I mean if we have to change a song that talks
about being "true to self and to each other" and "daily working, daily
striving, ever more to be" just because it has the M-word and B-word in
it, then change it altogether, the words and the tune, or just abolish it.
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