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The www.recordonline.orgRecord Volume 63 Issue 10 Thursday, October 25th 2007 Inside The Road to Financial Exigency By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans at for 15 years. “I think it’s incredibly late 2001. “I’m just comparing it to old Homecoming Research: short sighted.” she says. “Antioch’s Motown Records contracts. The artist Kim-Jenna Jurriaans reputation nationally is totally built made nothing. Well, Antioch College is “It’s the organic brainchild of Brian Springer on Antioch College. I talked to people the artist and I think that the funds that forums and email lists. It’s Re- “Based on projections of enrollment, here in the education world and for all come in should help support this col- union 2.0. And it’s officially they know, Antioch is closing. I think lege and the plant that goes along with if we would have gone beyond the next the university will suffer. I think the it.” starting on campus today.” p.5 year, there weren’t going to be more short term gain of closing the college Stewart, herself a proud graduate of resources to cover expenses,” says An- does not serve the long term reputation the masters program at Antioch Mc- tioch University CFO Thomas Faecke, of Antioch University.” Gregor, points to a number of admin- University History in response to the question what his istrative measures and a general shift in Antioch Diaspora recounted in personal reason was to support the sus- pension of operations at Antioch col- “I think in the early 90s, board culture in regard to the college as our centerfold, from the Putney lege in 2008. “There was a fear that the it wouldn’t have occurred major contributors to the current crisis. School of 1963 to today One of these measures was the choice university would become insolvent and to anyone to close the col- to book depreciation–the decrease of that was primarily because of the deficit the value of your assets as they get used of the college,” he adds. Presented with lege and keep the university up over time–at the central units in 2001 Admissions Target this scenario, on June 9th, the vast ma- open” instead of maintaining it as a liability in Were the expectations met at jority of the members of the University Board of voted to suspend operations at the University’s budget. Glenn Watts, the June 6th Board meeting? Filemyr was on campus in a period CFO for the University at that time the 155-year-old college. when the college for the first time in What information did the board was not available for comment, as he “I think in the early 90s, it wouldn’t years had two balanced budgets in a is currently out of the country. Accord- have on enrollment? Find out have occurred to anyone to close the row, 1998 and 1999, both in the accrued college and keep the university open,” ing to accounting guidelines FSBA 93, the truth about enrollment tar- and cash budget, and witnessed steady “depreciation needs to be booked gen- says Ann Filemyr, a former journalism enrolment growth between 1996 and gets on p.9 erally,” says Virginia Dowse, Director professor, interim Dean of faculty and 2002. “I think we did some good work of finance and budget for Antioch Uni- serving vice president at the college un- in that period and as an institution we til 2005. “At that time, the college was versity, “it doesn’t say that you need to Faculty lawsuit had a lot of energy,” recalls Filemyr. book it at the campus in particular, no.” clearly considered as the center of An- Yet, five years later the alumni of An As all major assets of the university are What’s the status of the faculty tioch University.” tioch College are fighting to safe their located at the college campus–an as- lawsuit? How will this week- Like many affiliated with Antioch Col- school from being closed by its board. set of the university–the college gets lege, Filemyr, now Dean of Academics “They got a really bad record deal,” end’s decision affect the suit? an additional average of $ 1.48 million at the American Institute of Indian Arts says Barbara Stewart, CFO for Spring- in paper expense booked to its accrual An update with Pete Townsend in Santa Fe, was stunned when earlier field Metropolitan Housing and last budget, annually. on p.5 this summer she heard about the vote Dean of Finance at Antioch College, a Continued on p.4 to close the institution she had worked position lost in consolidation efforts in Antioch & Revival 101 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, How Say You? Get a crash course on Antioch By Eva Erickson and Alaa Jahshan “We have crafted a comprehensive History on p.11 and refresh This weekend, the future of An- business and fundraising plan that is tioch College is sitting in the hot seat very workable. The BOT proclaims to your memory on the Revival of a court room. Antiochians, Yellow be very pleased with it. We have an on p.7 Springers, Alumni, members of the admissions plan that goes until 2014, Board of Trustees (BOT), and many re- information on a physical plan and a porters with pen at hand have come to proposed governance plan,” lists Chris- witness a decision that could be either tian Feuerstein ’94, Alumni Board McGregor Organizing a death sentence or an Antiochian Re- Communications Chair. All of this can Students at Antioch University naissance. be found in draft form on the alumni No one, not even BOT members, website, www.antiochians.org. “I per- McGregor have projects for a knows what the decision will be, yet sonally feel as though we’ve just com- student government. Find out everyone has strong feelings about the pleted the most intense co-op of our more on p.6 outcome. Some people think that the lives. We’re all doing this on top of our Board’s decision to close is unlikely day jobs.” to be reversed. Others believe that the The community has also been keeping Board will keep the college open. Gina itself busy. Some of their many efforts Do you recognize this Potestio, a first year, is, “trying to stay include: creating and voting on the two faculty member? optimistic, and hearing the feedback referenda, erecting “Save Antioch, Save from the upper-level students saying and know how any plan will actually Yellow Springs” signs, and encourag- it’s going to close is a little hurtful af- play out. We’ll have the balance the ing students to vote for town council ter seeing … what everyone’s doing risk of ‘suspended operations’ against members whose campaigns deal with for us.” Many students are in denial the risk of letting the Alumni Plan have keeping the college alive. Students and about the possibility of Antioch clos- a chance.” community members also created the ing. “I just really didn’t want to think As of October 23, the fundraising to- “Non-Stop Antioch” campaign, which about [the closing],” explains James tal from the Alumni Board is above $16 includes “Horrace’s Army” meetings Kutil, a second year student, “so, I’ve million in cash and pledges, according that encourage students to take action kind of been in a numb panic, because to Rick Daily. “We’ve only scratched in areas such as media attention, legal the school closing means a lot to me.” the surface,” he remarks. Given the action, planning community events, There is still a gut feeling that the col- short amount of time, he continues, it’s and rejuvenating Antioch Independent lege just can’t close. incredible that we’ve raised so much Media Arts Collective (AIMAC). “Every member of the Board would money. “Most everyone wants to keep An- love to see a successful plan,” states Along with fundraising, alumni have tioch College open,” insures Feuer- Kenneth Friedman, BOT member. “No been bringing Antioch into the media, stein. “All of us have come together one wants a plan that will be impos- getting in touch with disconnected saying ‘it doesn’t f**ing matter, it’s got Find out who she is on p.21 sible to realize and only be a set-up for alumni, and finding board members to stay open.” disappointment and failure. And, of for a future Antioch College Board of course, none of us can see the future Trustees. Editors Editorials Kim-Jenna Jurriaans Jeanne Kay more than friends; to busy bees who helped me get The issue that lies in front of you holds the anticipations through hours of interviews, dug up files, pulled to- Our Beloved Staff of its creators that will go into this weekend knowing gether charts, explained ad nauseam the concept of Sally Alper they’ll have a couple more grey hairs to match some depreciation, opened their house to me, made tea and Culinary Expert of our visitors. It was done under extraordinary strain, peeled apples, went on endless coffee runs and stayed Alex Borowicz in a week that most of our staff are writing mid term awake all night to make this happen. Reporter/Photographer papers, while reporting around the clock and spend- While we are awaiting a magnum opus from you, ing restless nights in the Record office in order to take dear Trustees, here is ours. Sarah Buckingham Reporter some weight off the editors’ shoulders. Please Enjoy. 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But I could along among themselves… Reporter just as well have chosen Antioch University Chancellor Toni “Can the College be reinvented and sustainable without the Murdock’s now infamous PhD Commencement speech from University? Can the College survive on its own? My ques- Jessica Rapchik last summer. tion is - why would it want to?” The multi-campus system is Reporter Actually, I could even point out to some common traits the one that will thrive, the independent liberal-arts college between the two texts. Sarkozy lectured: “Africa’s problem is campus is doomed to wither in a future of corporatization of Miyuki Sese that it lives too much in nostalgia for a lost childhood para- higher education. The Metropole never did understand that Reporter dise…Africa’s problem is not to invent for itself a more or irrational desire for freedom on the part of the colonies. How less mythical past to help it support the present, but to invent could you not want to be part of the glorious British Empire? the future with suitable means.” For Murdock, Antioch, like Surely, all the advantages they get from it, all they have prof- Diana Starkweather Africa, remains obsessed with its supposedly grander past: iteered from it will be a dear loss. And they’ll probably miss Reporter “[Thomas] Friedman declares that he knows when an orga- it when we go. In The Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon nization is in trouble and that is when they tell him how good thus describes this imperialist attitude: “If we go, everything Yuko Tanaka they were in the past. When memories exceed dreams, the is lost, this land will go back to the Middle Ages… in clear, if Reviews/Advertisement Manager end is near. The hallmark of a truly successful organization you want independence, take it and choke.” is the willingness to abandon what made it successful and The irony, of course, in having to stand lectures from the Bryan Utley start fresh… In returning to Friedman’s comments regarding University in which echo the logic of imperialism is that his- Political Correspondant memories and dreams - in the present, Antioch College has torically, the college has been in the position of the Metro- more memories than it has dreams.” pole— with the history, tradition and culture. The original The “stuck in the past” argument of a more or less illusory idea in the creation of university satellites was to profit the Marysia Walcerz nostalgia for a lost paradise inapplicable in the current reality college– in imperialist terms, what French Minister Jules Reporter/Reviews/Astral Seer of History and Progress is a standard one, in both colonialist Ferry described to the Chambre des Députés in 1885: “the and neo-liberal discourses. “The multi-campus model is the colonies are, for the rich countries, a most advantageous Contributors one that will survive and thrive in the 21st century,” Murdock placement of capital. In these times, and the crisis that the claims; it is “what many educational theorists have predicted European industries are undergoing, the creation of colonies Rowan Kaiser for years.” Face the truth. Embrace the future. Forget about is an opportunity.” It seems like we’ve failed to implement Laura Fathauer those wishy-washy puerile ideals. Adapt. Get used to it. these grandiose plans. Maybe we’re just, here at the college, “You will be witnessing a movement by the College Alumni hopelessly incompetent at imperialism… Board and some of our former trustees and board chairs to Perhaps a surge of Cartiérisme will influence the University Special Thanks separate the College from the University,” Murdock warns leadership this weekend. Raymond Cartier, with whom the the crowd, and the independentists will claim that “the Uni- doctrine originated in the 1950s, believed that “colonialism Christian Feuerstein versity structure and the non-residential campuses have has always been a liability as well as an asset, often a liability Matt Baya weakened the College over the years, and the College must more than an asset.” Hopefully they’ll let got of this unman- Eric Ryerson stand alone to stay true to its values and succeed.” The indig- ageable colony and its chaotic population, keep them under Rowan Kaiser enous people will pretend that they can stand on their own! the auspices of a Commonwealth, but relinquish the will to Jonathan Platt They will try to make you believe that colonialism has hurt govern us. Hopefully they will make sure that the indepen- Jean Gregorek them! But, don’t be fooled, this view is that of a very small dence of Antioch College is closer to the decolonization of & All staff members who stayed group of radicals, not the general population: “a distrust by India that that of Algeria. Otherwise we just might have to a small group alumni and former trustees, who are very vo- start building the Barricades. -JK up all night to help put this issue together  Op/Eds about history almost as well as we can recite Horace Repeating our History? Mann’s quote. Perhaps the adage about history is often You’re Doing It Wrong repeated because it is true? While the financial prob- lems that had plagued the financial control of the adult By Zachary Lapin Gallant By Laura Fathauer campuses have been resolved, it seems there may be During a time when Antioch College was experienc- something to learn from the seemingly identical situa- I have, in years past, been accused of being “un- ing financial difficulties, the Board of Trustees stepped tion the College was in 20 years ago. Antiochian” and many far worse things. I think “War- in to create a new plan for academics at the College. A In his 1987 State of the College Address, Guskin mongering Capitalist Hypocrite” may have been my special committee was convened, and some community credited four strategic decisions with the early success- favorite, though the disdain with which the word “Lib- members along with external consultants and academic es of the rebuilding of Antioch College and the Univer- eral” escaped many mouths meant just as much. I have experts worked to develop the plan. One of the beliefs sity. However, the “most important” strategic decision little doubt the following will do anything to assuage was that the College could not continue to function the was to place the College as the highest priority and those sentiments from those who disagree with me. way it had in the past. Many believed that the College the center of the University. Expanding on a sentiment But it must be known: I have never been so deeply had lost its intellectual thrust. A new 1st year program previously expressed by President Birenbaum, Guskin affected, so strongly moved, so heavily influenced and was developed, and there were concerns that with this stated “Without a healthy, robust, and vibrant College inspired, as I am by Antioch College. The cute little program that 1st year students would be separated from there is no Antioch.” “The Revolution is NOW” written in the bathroom the rest of the student body. Concurrent with these strategic decisions, the Board stalls. You know it’s not. But I hope you never stop The year was 1982. committed themselves to restoring Antioch to health. fighting. The only recent statement I’ve read that ap- In September 1982, the Board created a task force In 1991, the Board adopted their Year 2000 vision propriately describes my love for Antioch came from to redesign the academic program at Antioch College. statement, which included among many other priori- our own beautiful Record editor Jeanne Kay. When the task force presented their report to the Board ties a commitment to “preserve the health and vitality “...I thought that maybe one of the things that unites in February 1983, the Board chair, Leo Drey opened of Antioch College while enhancing the vitality of the us in our love for Antioch is that in the forever disap- the meeting reading from letters and telegrams sent to other adult campuses.” pointing quest for something pure in our world, what the Board. Chairperson Drey started with a telegram Not all of the efforts of that period produced success. Antioch offers comes closest to that Grail. The sponta- from Adcil and Comcil members, and continued with Ironically, Guskin himself led the creation of the very neous and reckless attitude of I’ll fight for it with what excerpts from letters from student Bonnie Bazata and structure that would eventually remove the College I am, even if it’s against a cold wall...” alumna Joan Straumanis: from its pre-eminent role in the University. Influenced That’s what I love about this community. That’s what “We urge you to recognize the importance of this by the structure of his former institution, the multi-cam- makes me fight to keep this school open. Through all community’s input in affecting positive change for An- pus University of Wisconsin, Guskin’s administrative the negativity, through all the ineffectiveness and un- tioch. Mutual cooperation is imperative for the growth reorganization created the “decentralized” University willingness to do what is necessary, that is what I love, and substance of our college. We care.” -Adcil and that now exists. While in the late 90’s the College still and more than anything, that is what we must save. Comcil Members, writing to the Board of Trustees, had a direct relationship with the Board; this ended in But that doesn’t mean I think you’re doing things 2/4/1983 2002, and the College became just another University right. I don’t. I think that so much of what Antioch Ms Bazata expressed “criticisms about (…) the poor unit, subsidized by the other campuses. stood for has been corrupted and that which hasn’t is communication from the board to the community at Even though financial support from alumni increased clung to in such a devoutly conservative way that it large on (their) goals and objectives and plans for im- during these years, some of the basic problems that makes this school, its students, and far too often its plementation.” –Minutes, Executive Session, Board of were identified 20 years ago exist today. After travel- graduates utterly ineffectual and downright worthless Trustees, 2/4/1983 ling across the country to meet with alumni, Guskin in affecting the change they claim to seek on any larg- “What such students and parents (and alumni do- reported that problems of the past that alienated alumni er scale. What was once a groundbreaking institution nors as well) need right now is reassurance that the were: a shift of focus of the University away from the for the uplifting of minority opinion, open thought, Antioch of their hopes and affections still exists and College, and a depletion of College resources in build- and open discourse has become instead an oppressive can thrive…The College needs reassurance that the ing Centers. Alumni also expressed many concerns; a culture of majority oppression, where calling out and University shares and understands its educational val- sense of rejection, a lack of cultivation, a lack of infor- shame are seen as healthy alternatives to dialogue and ues and governance traditions…The worst policy, it mation about the college, a loss of confidence in the growth. seems to me, is to resort to secrecy and deviousness board, and a belief they were lied to about attempts to I love this school, I love your spirit. Truly, madly, in the effort to avoid the annoyance of always having help the college. deeply, with all my heart and soul, I love this insti- to share power and explain decisions.” –Letter by Joan Today, we face the crossroads of another rebuild- tution. But I hate your hypocrisy. Don’t claim that Straumanis, alumna, April 1982, read to the Board of ing. At the core of rebuilding is the need for two basic you’re going to get out there and change things un- Trustees 2/4/1983. resources-money and leadership. The University has less you’re willing to make the necessary sacrifices to Three years later Antioch was in financial crisis. In expressed its inability to provide the financial support actually do it. If you just want to whine and yell and 1985, Antioch was 18 months away from financial required for the rebuilding of the College. Instead of perform so people can see how much you care, that’s disaster, and a new leader of Antioch University was reaching out to alumni and other sources to assist the fine. Do that. But don’t hired. In his first report to the board, ten weeks after University in supporting the College, the University pretend you’re changing things. being named president, Alan Guskin wrote that the originally drafted re-opening plans bereft of College Without Sacrifice, there is no Victory, and with- University was a sick patient. Curing the University de- traditions. In light of the lack of official information out Victory, you will die ashamed. And you will de- pended on quick, decisive action. One of those actions regarding the decision to suspend operations at the serve to. It is a childish arrogance that can allow my was the closure of the Law School, which had chronic College, it is not surprising that the Alumni continue to classmates and colleagues to refuse to use every ounce budgetary problems that threatened the health of the have concerns about the University. of their potential and every weapon in their arsenal University. He bluntly stated that the University didn’t With the void of leadership focused on the College, to fight the good fight, but still claim, at the end of have the resources to rebuild both the Law School and and the continuing concerns with the University, that the day, when they have failed because they set them- the College simultaneously. the question of leadership, and by extension, gover- selves up to fail, that they tried their hardest, that they In that same report he would write of the College: nance, MUST be resolved. The long-term financial fought. That’s Bullshit. “The relationship between the University and College health of the College requires leadership committed There is a lawsuit that was being considered against over the last decade…has been openly hostile on both to the values and the future of Antioch College. As the government of the United States by relatives of the sides. The result is that the College has been actively Guskin told the Board in ’86, “When organizations of victims of the genocide in Darfur. The lawsuit pos- neglected for many of the last 15 years and forced to any type are in difficulty, it is essential to restate the its that, when the US designated the situation geno- operate on an intolerable fiscal model; namely that the values that guide the institution and for its leaders to re- cide and declared that they would take every effort to College should support itself out of tuition and a mod- commit themselves to these values.” This commitment end it, they were telling the rest of the world that the est annual fund. While we know that high quality adult must extend to all stewards of the College entrusted United States would step in and handle the situation, learning centers can operate solely on tuition…I do not with the College’s future. “We must return to Antioch’s and they burdened themselves with that responsibility. know of any quality residential liberal arts colleges that roots and core values no matter what our personal in- When the world community believed that there was have done so.” terests or values. It is my responsibility as President to no one taking action to stop the genocide, they stood In 1985, the University committed to rebuilding the act in this manner; it is yours as Trustees to do likewise. up and prepared to act. When we pretended to take College- and itself. The financial affairs across the Uni- Such action is the type of leadership called for at this the lead on this, they all relaxed and sat down again. versity were unmanageable in their former state, and juncture in Antioch’s history.” When we dropped the ball, the responsibility for the new financial controls were implemented. The lead- What seems to be unique to our current moment in continued genocide became ours. ership of the University was brought back to Yellow history is the asserting that the nature of the students It’s a very Antiochian principle, pure and accusa- Springs. In 1987, the University started running a sur- themselves contributed in some way to the problems tory. But it doesn’t seem to be a standard that Antio- plus in its budget. facing the College. If we take away only one thing from chians would be willing to place on themselves. You The rebuilding of the College was succeeding. In the our own history, let it be this: don’t have to change the world if you don’t want to, if early 90’s, entering class sizes averaged 225 students. “Before we move on, however, let us agree that what- you don’t feel you’re up to it. But if you’re not going With support from the adult campuses, the College ever the problems or concerns, it must be emphasized to, admit it to yourself and don’t try to feel good about launched a capital campaign to build the endowment that in this period the College still provided a genera- yourself with empty words, with meaningless lip ser- and renovate campus buildings. Two buildings around tion of students with a powerful education.” State of vice. Don’t claim you’re going to fight injustice unless the horseshoe, condemned and vacant, were renovated: the College Address, 9/9/1987, Alan E. Guskin you are actually willing to fight injustice, and fight it South and Spalt. with everything you have, with everything you are. We can probably all recite the obvious tired old adage  residential campuses and the College. “I felt like who were training each other in solicitation were every time I went to a meeting I had to justify what met with resistance. “The people on the finance our budget was, because we had a residential cam- committee said, we don’t do that. Everybody that is Road to Exigency pus that had a cafeteria, a big library; you know, a fundraiser said’ oh yes.’ A non-profit board gives, continued from p.1 all the kinds of things that you have to have for a gets or gets off,” Devine underlines, “but I think residential campus.. rather than one building or two. people are much more familiar with a corporate “It keeps us in permanent deficit to charge it here,” The kind of expenses that the other campuses have, board model.” says former president Bob Devine, “and in a per- I think could be easily supported by their tuition.” “On the University board there is a historic divide manent deficit, we have no power in the university The 5-1 ratio between commuter and residential between development and finance,” say sources because we are always the bastard step child that campuses within the university made the college the within the university that requested no to be named. doesn’t have two pennies to rub together, that’s al- odd one out, a number of recent and older adminis- “The university never staffed development at the ways borrowing from their rich uncles, or their chil- trators say, and stifled the colleges representatives in college. If you not staff development, you’re not dren, actually.” discussions with the board. going to get money. […] In addition, there was Mandated budget cuts followed the decision in something that emerged that if the trustees didn’t 2002. agree on something, there was something wrong, “The faculty got nervous,” recounts Ann Filemyr, ‘The college is your mother have and I think the college paid the price for it. Most of associate Dean of faculty at the time. “A sociology a little respect!’ the Trustees are decent, but the decent trustees were professor left; one after another left. Students were drinking cool aid.” loosing their mentors. Departments were disappear- “Bob and I used to talk about this and it was al- No money in a period of a highly competitive ing. That all happened over the last 5 years. Many most like we were just the bad kids who couldn’t financial aid market in which colleges used their of them left after depreciation. There was a feeling control their budget when we had so many built-in endowments heavily to fund aid, for Antioch, un- of instability and lack of support on university level. fixed costs, even when we reduced expenses,” re- fortunately, meant it had to discount its tuition to Why are we not valued any more? members Stewart. astronomical degrees. “I think it is connected to the rise of conservative Stewart, who left in 2001 in the advent of man- “I think it is connected to the politics in this country,” thinks former Dean of Fac- dated cuts that took out a whole administrative layer ulty Ann Filemyr. “Liberals are considered children at the College, agreed to a meeting that included rise of conservative politics in that need to grow up. Progressives are considered looking at the college’s budgets from the last 15 this country,” to be over idealistic youth that never grow up. You years. Holy cow!” Stewart leans closer to the page should turn that around, and say, ‘the college is your that shows the tuition discounts for the year 2003- mother have a little respect!’ I think in this time the 04. The numbers equal about 50 percent of the tu- Stewart points to former University Chancellor rise of certain people within Antioch as an organiza- ition that year, creating a net tuition revenue drop of and College President Al Guskin’s departure as a tion is tied to this rise in the country.” $700.000 in comparison to the year before. “Holy trigger for a shift in the attitude of the University In a phone interview on Sunday, University trustee cow! That must be the effects of the Noel Levits ad- board towards the college. “When he retired and Bruce Bedford responds to the question whether a vice [educational consultants]” they split that job function, they created a chancel- tuition-revenue based model worked well for the lor and a president. When that changed, it seemed College: “I think it’s the only option that exist,” he “I don’t see anyone looking to like everything else changed. Everybody said they says. Bedford, former head of the Board’s finance wanted to see the college succeed, but their actions committee, joined the University Board ten years give a huge amount of assets didn’t support that.” ago, after serving as member of the board of visitors to build a very large endow- On his departure form the joined president’s and for what was then called The McGregor School. He chancellor’s office in the mid 90s, former branch went on to say, “I don’t see anyone looking to give a ment like some other liberal arts campuses like the McGregor School, which was huge amount of assets to build a very large endow- schools have.” originally created to produce revenue for the col- ment like some other liberal arts schools have. So, I lege, aspired to carve out larger presence in their re- think it has to be tuition-driven.” gional association and the higher education world, “They were pushing us to be more aggressive explains Stewart. “When he retired and they split with financial aid,” recalls Devine. We resisted. I Financially it was a turning point, she says, as it in- resisted. And the folks I was working with, Hassan flated the administrative costs at the other campus- that job function, they created Nejad, and Scott Warren resisted as well, saying that es, “which has created other pressures that people a chancellor and a president. would push us over the edge. don’t want to talk about now.” Culturally, the shift Because we have no endowment. Our endowment she noticed in her encounters with the Antioch Uni- When that changed, it seemed yields something like $250.000 per year. If you’re versity board during her tenure at the college from like everything else changed.” trying to get 200 students to come here, how are you 1992 to 2002, was one away from the needs of the going to give them aid?” college. Bedford does not see it as a responsibility for the Back at Metro Housing in Springfield, Stew- “I think there somehow came in some kind of a Trustees to actively solicit funds for the college, but art looks at the last ten budgets up until this year. corporate mentality that we need to run this like a underlines the board’s responsibility to facilitate “So this [01-02 budget was probably the last bud- business,” she says. “Which, of course, everybody growth and to encourage [the college] to do the per- get i worked on, right here. Which was interesting understood. But you also have to run it like an edu- sonnel and the fundraising. “They have responsibil- because we kept hearing from the rumor mill and cational institution, because that’s what it is. That’s ity to contribute and to invest time and effort,” he whatever that Bob and I didn’t know how to keep the specific model that you’re trying to follow, and adds. expenses under control and we didn’t know how to to try and force other models onto a residential col- Devine sees a larger responsibility than that. “Ac- forecast revenues and we didn’t know how to do lege campus: it doesn’t work.” tive soliciting? You bet ya. And if Bruce doesn’t anything and it was our fault that we were having “It’s not the same on a year to year basis as un- think so, than he hasn’t spent much time on a non- these deficits and then, look here” she says while dergrad liberal arts residential education, where profit board.” point to declining numbers on a spread sheet after donative resources comprise 50 percent of what the “When we ramped up the capital campaign [02],” the year ’02. I never did anything that bad! It just revenue picture is, most of the time,” states media he continues, “that was one of the tensions, between kept getting worse after we left. I mean, it’s almost professor and former president Bob Devine. the finance committee people and the campaign like it’s an intentional slide.” Stewart highlights differences between the non- committee. Fundraisers on the campaign committee  just drag on forever and the univer- No Football Team Since ‘29 Faculty Lawsuit: sity has a history of delaying and delaying and delaying. On the other Where Are We Now? hand, lawsuits that have reason to Alumni Still Come Home be moved rapidly through the court system…the judge can chose to fast- By Marysia Walcerz Tim Noble. Judith Wolert-Maldona- By Sarah Buckingham track the suit, and if we don’t start It’s the organic brainchild of forums do has been working with the Yellow Peter Townsend, environmental sci- recruiting students….we could win and email lists. It’s Reunion 2.0. And Springs community to organize hous- ence faculty and lead plaintiff in the the lawsuit and lose the college. it’s officially starting on campus to- ing, after on campus housing in North faculty lawsuit opted not to take a You never know how fast the court day. filled up. Judith placed ads in the Yel- vacation this past summer in order can move it through, but they could Homecoming started as an idea of low Springs news asking for hous- to work with the alumni. Townsend move it through in a matter of weeks Matt Baya and several alumni who ing, and Yellow Springers have been said, “Most of my professional devel- if they want. In 1973, when we had attended Reunion this summer and more than accommodating in open- opment has been being as an expert what was called the Great Strike, saw what a huge success the week- ing up their homes to alumni. “They witness so I work with lawyers a lot.” students and faculty sued to reopen end had been. The closeness of the recognize that the village wouldn’t be I sat down with Townsend for a brief the institution and that was moved Alumni Board meeting and the Board how it is without Antioch. They’ve update on the status of the lawsuit, through the court system in about a the crux of which is that the Board’s month from the initial filing. announcement to suspend operations was in direct violation of Antioch “The sky is gonna fall College’s Faculty Personnel Polices. on the university if they keep us closed.... alumni, student, fac- ulty lawsuits are going to fall like snow out of the sky and I think the university will just col- lapse” I think for the Board of Trustees a vote to keep the college open is pret- ty much the same as a lack of trust in Toni Murdoch because, what I think is the grossly distorted presentation of Trustees weekend- only a week or been a huge help,” said Judith. As of of facts given to the Board at the June so apart- was what prompted the tim- last Tuesday, 15 people had been suc- meeting was filtered through Toni, ing. Planning started immediately cessfully housed in the village, and maybe initiated by Toni, so either after Reunion, but the real details Jill Becker had agreed to open up the Where are we right now in terms the board is basically taking a vote of started coming together after the Cin- South Gym for camping out. of the suit? no confidence in Toni, which is a big cinnati meeting. Alumnus Tim Noble Regarding the Homecoming week, Well, you file a suit and then that just step for a board, or they will not vote met with Community Government in Judith said “Folks are realizing how kind of begins the process, it doesn’t to keep us open. They’ve got to make September to cement the plans, and important it is to come here and mean that it is a suit. We don’t for- a decision and so one side of me says it’s been the work of alumni every- show a mass presence and I think it mally have a suit. We filed a suit and they’re going to keep us closed. The where, as well as the Alumni Board, is going to be great for students who then the university had 28 days to re- other side of me says the sky is gonna CG and Alumni Relations ever since. weren’t able to make it to Reunion. spond to our filing, but in reality, and fall on the university if they keep us Tim Noble described the process It’s also a great chance for students especially because of this weekend’s closed. The faculty lawsuit really as, “An entire organizational effort to not only share their stories, but meeting, we had to give an extension isn’t going to be a very big problem widely distributed across the country to ask alumni to share stories about and then another extension, then they for the university. Alumni, student, with people working in their free, and their time at Antioch.” Most alumni filed a motion to dismiss instead of faculty lawsuits are going to fall like not-so -free time. It’s been a study in had similar hopes for Homecoming- responding. We had 20 days to re- snow out of the sky and I think the flying by the seat of our pants.” a huge, positive presence on campus spond to that, and then they had 10 university will just collapse. Despite all the time put into pre- and an opportunity to join with stu- days to respond to our response. Af- Looking at the pattern of decisions paring, finalizing plans has been par- dents and faculty as a cohesive, sup- ter that the judge will look at the mo- since 2001, every major decision that ticularly difficult due to dependence portive community. “If it turns out tion to dismiss and their response to involved the college had been against on the Board of Trustees’ schedule half as well as Reunion, then we’re our initial filing of the suit, and either the college, and that’s not a pattern and a very uncertain headcount of in good shape,” said Rowan Kaiser. the judge will dismiss or keep the of bad management, that’s a pattern expected attendees. “Scheduling spe- “The students right now may have case. The judge has to formally ac- of malicious management. It’s a pat- cific meetings is difficult when we heard vague things about the joy of cept our suit as having “standing.” So tern that suggests that management don’t know what kind of decision is the Reunion party. What happened the judge hasn’t ruled on the motion intended to close the college over a going to come along. So everything’s then was, out of over a week of edgi- to dismiss, hasn’t ruled on the stand- period of many years. If that’s cor- being done according to need,” said ness and sadness, there was suddenly ing of the suit. rect, then soliciting students to attend alumnus and Alumni Relations work- there was a sense of relief and joy, How will this coming weekend ef- the college, and soliciting donations er Rowan Kaiser. Tim Noble agreed, and everyone just danced all night. fect the suit? to the college…at the very least is ly- saying “The schedule probably won’t Homecoming has the potential to Well, if the Board of Trustees gives ing, at the very most its fraud. So, if be finalized until Sunday.” blow that away. Of course, the thing the Alumni Board everything they’re I where on the board, I would vote Getting an idea of how many attend- with Reunion that made it work is asking for it will significantly change to keep us open because I think the ees are expected to arrive has been an that we were expecting disaster, and the suit and most of the grounds we consequences for the university are impossible number to pin down. Ap- suddenly there was optimism. Here, have for having the suit will mostly just too negative. proximately 50 people are registered everyone’s coming with optimism, disappear. We haven’t talked to our It’s going to be really hard for the or have voiced their decision to come, and we don’t know if it’s deserved. lawyer about what will happen if ev- judge, if we go to court; it’s going but it could easily exceed 100 people We had only uphill at Reunion. This, erything goes swimmingly, my pre- to be hard for the judge to keep us on campus this weekend. “Getting this is scary.” diction is we’ll drop the suit. closed. Antiochians to sign up and register And if we get a negative decision or has been like herding pigeons,” joked no decision? It really depends. Normally lawsuits  A Student Government at McGregor?

By Jeanne Kay with Charlotte Dungan and What obstacles are you expecting to encounter? “Where do we come from? We come from An- Interview tioch! I don’t think that Barbara Danley wants that Brooke Bryan, McGregor Undergraduate Charlotte: An Office of Student Affairs, and all connection...it’s like she’s ashamed of that,” Mc- students involved in the Student Govern- these services and things that we are requesting will Gregor student Pat Kyley exclaimed, “Then she’s ment project cost money - money that our University does not gonna have to find another campus because this equate with profitable spending. I think we will campus is finding its voice.” How and why did the students who are initiating meet resistance since offering these services is an When I walked into the brand new, army-green the student government get together? expense that McGregor does not currently have in A103 classroom at West Campus last Saturday their budget. However, how can we even be consid- afternoon, I thought I would be attending a staff Charlotte Dungan: We met for a McGregor Voice ered a liberal arts college without these basic servic- meeting for The Voice, McGregor’s unofficial newsletter meeting, and it went from a vision of es? We are, in fact, WORSE than the degree mills student publication. What I fell upon was a full- what we want to do with our paper, to a vision of down the road. Every college, even the for-profit fledged organizing session. The white board had what we want from our school. ones, at least offers student services for career coun- enough on it to have Barbara Danley evacuate the Brooke Bryan: The movement toward student or- seling, study group formation, or a simple bulletin building. Words like “Community Government,” ganizations and participatory government can’t be board that students can post for need/want items. “Elected Representatives,” “Student Services, attributed to any one person or group of people. I Our education, and the reputation of our institution, “ComCil,” “Constitution…” were spread out on would call it a slow process of realization happening will be lacking until we offer the basic services that the board, with large arrows between them. within the student body that, for many reasons, has students should have available to them. McGregor Student Brooke Bryan was taking notes come to a critical mass. I am hoping that our plan is met with acceptance while other students were brainstorming about and we can move forward with implementing it, the possibilities that an office of student services What are the next steps you will be taking to im- rather than fight to even have it considered. To me, would offer them; “I want a hiking club!” said one plement the student government? it seems obvious that the set of services we are re- student enthusiastically, while another exclaimed questing is so basic to the functioning of any legiti- “What about recycling? We don’t have recycling Brooke: The first step, in my opinion, is to engage mate University that it cannot be denied. here. We should do something about that.” as many voices as possible in the brainstorming ses- “A degree alone doesn’t count anymore,” said- sions--voices that accurately represent the student To what extent will you draw inspiration from Bryan, “This is a school built for career-oriented body. Only then can we proceed to elect officers and the college’s shared governance system when you people--where are my opportunities?” Several stu- ratify our Constitution, as this must come from a set up the student government at McGregor? dents voiced the concern that the absence of stu- shared vision. And I believe this is only the begin- dent services and extracurricular activities dimin- ning. Brooke: Personally, I was shocked that so much that ished their experience as students. “All of this is Charlotte: The next step is to write about it in the prepares an Antioch College student to actively par- happening in a liberal arts college; otherwise it’s upcoming issue of the Voice, and to attend the Com- ticipate in the world is completely absent from this not a liberal art college,” said Pat Kyley. Outreach munity Meeting at lunch time (12:15-1:30) on No- branch of the University. It is as if the needs of an to the wider Greene county and community service vember 3. The President will be there taking ques- older, career focused population were somehow dis- were also brought up. “We should be involved in tions from students, and our questions will center torted and cut short. If we are to “be the difference,” our community, with our mission statement,” ar- around moving forward with the plan that we will we need to show a wide skill set and engagement gued Brooke Bryan. present in the paper on that date. We plan on solic- in our community--a degree alone is simply not “So what exactly is AdCil?” a student asked me. iting feedback from the student body, including a enough to stand out in a pile of applicants today. In the process of forming a student government, petition to signal their agreement with what we are Antioch College is an obvious model for the Uni- which would have an influence on the adminis- doing, and then beginning talks with administration versity branches, and we should wonder why the trative decisions at McGregor as well as general on a formal proposal and steps for implementation. administration has failed to implement the other as- student affairs, the students present at the meeting Fundraising will definitely fit in here somewhere as pects of the tripod that have made the College the seemed eager to get inspiration from the college. well. historic institution that it is. Many eggs have been Some expressed concern at the complete absence placed in the McGregor basket, so to speak, but I do of student involvement, in an institution that bears What role will the Voice play? not think the larger population is aware of the areas the name Antioch. “They say we’re built on 150 in which McGregor is under-developed. My person- years of tradition,” said Pat Kyley, “No we’re not! Charlotte: Hopefully the Voice will become a small al mission is to bring Antioch University McGregor Show me something we’ve built on.” part in a much bigger organization; that is, a school closer to its dual namesake, the structure of the Col- As lunch break was nearing an end and McGregor newspaper as one of many services, clubs and orga- lege and the ideals of Douglas McGregor, and I see students had to rejoin their classes, the meeting nizations available to students. Initially though, the that much groundwork has been laid by faculty and concluded with an impromptu plan. Further or- Voice staff will be the ones advocating for change, staff in these regards. The administration needs to ganizing meetings were scheduled, a resolution and the Voice will be used to keep everyone in- hear it from the student body, and we are organizing should be written and a petition passed among stu- formed of our efforts. It is difficult at our school to formally for the task. dents. More information can be found in the next get everyone together in one place, so a medium like issue of the McGregor Voice. a newspaper or newsletter is critical. Listening Project Exhibits at Open Eye Books

By Jessica Rapchik Last Thursday, Open Eye Books was host to an interac- tive exhibition by the Listening Project and Antioch Col- lege’s Creation, Collaboration, and Performance class. The exhibition is scheduled to run through the end of this week and features student video work, pamphlets describ- ing alumni efforts to prevent the intended suspension of operations in July, and college paraphernalia for sale. Questions such as, “How would you define culture?” and “What are your spiritual beliefs?” were taped to the wall for the interactive portion of the exhibition. Visitors can choose to answer a question for a video interview that takes place at the bookstore, chronicling the thoughts of passersby. A computer-projected theme developed by the Creation, Collaboration, and Performance class through a second-floor street window and invited townspeople in with the invitation, “We are listening.” The Listening Project was designed to increase inter- actions between the campus and village community and inform villagers of the situation surrounding the college.

 They were put into an outline, and taken out A Pocket History to the alumni in small groups for discussion and refinement, cul- minating in a commu- of the Revival nity meeting attended by hundreds. Sud- By Rowan Kaiser denly, this efficient, effective grassroots Suspension and Reunion turned the Alumni Board’s revival ideas The Board of Trustees’ suspension of Antioch into an alumni move- College was announced, to the media and not the ment. The goal for the College community, on June 12th, 2007. Alumni weekend had been to who discovered this quickly gathered in shock, and raise $40,000. Ten spoke of their Antioch memories, and planned to times that amount organize whatever response seemed proper at Re- was donated to the union, scheduled for the weekend of June 23rd. Two Revival, in cash and groups didn’t wait: the faculty of Antioch College, pledges, and the An- and the Antioch College Alumni Association Board tioch College Alumni of Directors (Alumni Board). Both came to the Re- Association passed a union with the beginnings of a plan: the faculty had powerful resolution their history of recent Antioch to counter the nar- dedicating them- rative the University was putting forth, as well as selves to reviving declaring their willingness to take legal action. The Antioch College. Judy Wolert-Maldonado ‘05 at the first CM working group meeting Alumni Board came in with a fundraising plan and willingness to take the lead of a revival effort. The majority of alums who descended on the cam- Building a Movement movement. pus, on the other hand, were there for explanations. The College’s difficulties were well-known, cer- The alumni dispersed, mobilizing nationally with Reaction On Campus tainly. The University leadership had the chance a website, www.antiochians.org, in several commit- to stand up in front of the alumni and declare the tees, such as Communications, Governance, and On Friday August 31st, less than a week later, out- necessity and the brilliance of their vision for the Fundraising, and setting up or revitalizing chap- going College President Steven Lawry was placed reopening of the College in 2012. Instead, they pro- ters in cities all across America and the world. The on administrative leave effective immediately. Col- duced equivocations. Questions left unanswered. An Board of Trustees, apparently recognizing that they lege and University administration changed the administration obviously in disarray, with the Col- had failed to convey their reasoning, promised two locks on the doors to development office, forcing lege President declaring he had no idea that closing meetings: one a “webinar” to go over their financial the staff to leave early for the long Labor Day week- the College was on the table and Trustees resigning information, and a week later, at the end of August, end, threatening the fragile alliance between the on the spot. an emergency meeting in Cincinnati. The Alumni University and the alumni. A swift response from Antiochians are used to a concept of shared com- Board responded by declaring the week before Save the Alumni Board as well as the campus community munity governance. That is, everyone who has a Antioch Weekend, and chapters all across the coun- ensured that President Lawry would still be allowed stake in an issue gets the chance to speak to that try responded by preparing social and fundraising to fundraise with the Alumni Board, and Institution- issue. The Administrative Council, for example, is events. al Advancement staff were allowed to continue their a representative body of administrators, staff, stu- The Antioch College faculty, supported by the work, generally unhindered. dents, and faculty. Perhaps the most notable aspect American Association of University Professors, filed The dramatic events of August 31st galvanized of the shared governance model is Community for an injunction to keep the College open on August the on-campus community into further action. The Government, which every member of the faculty, 14th. The Board of Trustees, apparently caught off- College faculty quickly voted “No Confidence” in staff, and student body are a part of. CG is run by guard, canceled their financial webinar. Save An- Chancellor Toni Murdock for failing to follow Col- the Community Managers, a generally a handful of tioch Weekend continued, and thousands of alumni lege governance processes, and the unionized staff raised $5.3 mil- quickly followed with a similar “Vote for Truth and lion in cash and Justice.” Student organizing centered around the pledges, which creation two community-wide referendums, one of combined with which was another vote of no confidence in Chan- previous fund- cellor Murdock. The other community referendum raising, took the was a declaration of would-be independence for An- College Revival tioch College from Antioch University, the first such Fund to over $8 statement since the formation of the University. million in cash and pledges go- Planning for Victory ing into the meet- ing. For the Alumni Board’s proposal to overturn the With the alum- suspension and fix the governance structure of the ni carrot and College to succeed, they needed two things: a lot the faculty stick of money, and a workable business plan. An emer- facing them, a gency fundraising plan was developed by members previously in- of the Fundraising Committee working with the De- tractable Board velopment Office of the College. The plan consisted of Trustees sat of a list of over 100 wealthy, potentially sympathetic up and listened alumni to be asked for significant gifts, in addition to the alumni, to continuing to develop local chapters and encour- faculty, staff, stu- age their local fundraising. dents, and Yellow Meanwhile, the business plan was created by a Springs residents collection of smaller committees focusing on gover- speak about their nance, admissions, finances, curriculum, public re- dreams, memo- lations, and fundraising. The Alumni Board hired an ries, and analy- expert in the field of higher education business plan- Current and former CMs at the first planning meeting ses about Antioch ning to aid in the consolidation of these different College. Both aspects of the plan, and presented drafts to members recent graduates who have been student leaders. It the Alumni Board and a group of former trustees of the Board of Trustees and the University Leader- can be viewed as student council with teeth, or a presented proposals for plans to grant the College ship Council. The results of the meeting encouraged surrogate Dean of Students’ office, but perhaps best autonomy from the University governance structure the Alumni Board, and they continued the creation as the facilitators who are the glue that holds the and maintain operations. The Trustees listened, and and presentation of the business plan, as well as the campus together. when they finally spoke, some even went to far as emergency fundraising campaign. The alumni will In the aftermath of the University’s frustrating to say they’d changed their mind. They released a present the final plan and most recent fundraising inability to communicate to the alumni, a group of statement of support for the Alumni Board, said that numbers to the Trustees on October 25th, with along mostly recent Community Managers met with the they would reconsider their suspension decision at challenge to overturn the suspension of Antioch current CMs and brainstormed their concerns about the October Board meeting, and accepted the Alum- College. where Antioch College was. Some were ideas for ni Board’s proposal of letting the College’s Office the future. Some were questions about the past. of Institutional Advancement work with the Revival  Peak Oil Spills onto Campus Antioch in “Colleges that Peak Oil Conference to be held with keynote speaker David Korten and Change Lives” on college campus on October continues through the rest of the week- end. 26-28 Antioch Sudents who wish to attend By James Thomas Robertson the Ninth should inquire with Megan Quinn for In 1996, Loren Pope came out with his first edition of Colleges that By Carl Reeverts best pricing, at 767-2161 or at the regis- Change Lives. Many of the schools described in the book noticed an in- Community Solutions Incorporated, a tration table. Prices for Antioch students crease in admissions and visitors after its publication, as many had learned local non-profit, is having their annual are available at a discount and on a per about the schools from Loren’s reviews. Before writing Colleges that conference focusing on the problem speaker basis. The cost for the whole Change Lives Loren was the New York Times education editor. of Peak Oil this weekend at Antioch. weekend is fifty dollars. Registration In 1998 the colleges features in Loren’s books decided to work together Billed as the largest gathering of Peak starts Friday, 4:00-6:00 in Kelly Hall. to promote a more engaging process of college selection. Colleges that Oil Activists in the world, the confer- Last years conference was called ‘Be- Change Lives encourages readers to not judge a school because of a built ence is bringing together an impressive yond Alternative Energy Sources’ which up name or overblown reputation. CTCL organized a group of admission schedule of speakers. Keynote speakers concentrated on how to become more counsellors from every college to travel around the country to attend col- include David Korten, author of “The efficient in our lifestyles, utilize com- lege fairs and provide first hand information. While the counsellors repre- Great Turning: From Empire to Earth munity resources and about the possi- sent the schools featured in 40 Colleges that Change Lives, the organiza- Community” and “When Corporations bility of growing food locally within the tion CTCL stands separate from Loren Pope, and the colleges do not pay Rule the World”; Dr. Thomas Princen, community. Speakers included Oberlin to be a part of CTCL. Even though Loren is now independent and retired author of “The Logic of Sufficiency”; Professor David Orr who spoke about from CTCL he is still very supportive of CTCL and Marty O’Connell, the Richard Heinberg, author of “The Par- how corporations present obstacles to new executive director. Loren Pope retired after 35 year of counseling, and ty’s Over and Powerdown.” gaining headway on sustainability and at the age of 97 currently suffers from conjunctive heart failure. This years concept is “Planning for Vicky Robin, author of “Your Money Last June, Marty O’Connell was contacted by Angie Glukov from the Hard Times.” Peak Oil constitutes a or Your Life,” presented ideas for sim- Antioch College Office of Transition with the news about the Board of time when global production of oil ple living. Over 300 people from around Trustee’s decision to suspend operations. Wanting to help Antioch students will begin to subside, with leaders in the United states attended to learn about interested in transferring to other schools, CTCL contacted colleges, col- the field expecting this to occur around practical solutions in a post-oil world. lecting information on what schools still had openings and would take ap- 2008. According to the organizers of Community Solutions, located in Yel- plications. Thanks to the efforts of CTCL and the office of transition, many the event, a sudden global oil shortage low Springs, is dedicated to education incoming students were able to get applications in and get a grasp on the could have catastrophic effects through- and awareness building about Peak Oil situation. out the world if alternative systems are and the solutions in dealing with the With the uncertainty surrounding Antioch College’s suspension of opera- not in place. challenge it presents. They promote al- tions, its future in CTCH is also unclear. Marty O’Connell commented on The focus of the conference is about ternative energy sources, unique ways to the college’s future in CTCL if operations are suspended, “Antioch would the transition to an alternative form of grow food, and more efficient housing. be removed from the CTCL website and listings in brochures during the energy after oil has become scarce, how Community Solutions is a program of closure; obviously until a new edition of Colleges That Change Lives is to bring this message to the masses and Community Service which was founded written, the current chapter will remain in print.” If Antioch College re- a bit of personal introspection on your by Arthur Morgan nearly 70 years ago. mains open with full accreditation its position in CTCL will not be af- own energy usage. The conference fected. starts Friday at 7:00 PM in Kelly Hall ments, especially wheelchair users, also struggle The event came to end with the lecture about Disability Awareness with authorities and with the public because of lack Disability and Queerness by Robert McRuer who is of understanding. “It is the most important thing Associate Professor of English at George Washing- Week-End that we see people with disabilities as fully capable ton University.”In academic level, Disability theory members of our society. If we provide them with links with other academic such as queer theory and the opportunities and take the time for the planning feminism theory. I think Disability means not only By Miyuki Sese that is more inclusive, they will be able to be fully opposition to body, but also one culture. Disability On Friday October 19th, the event “Disability functional in our society,”said Jarrow. People with has both positive and negative meaning at the same Awareness Weekend”started with a forum on ADD/ disability should be helped not because they are time,”said Robert. He also thinks that if we con- ADHD in McGregor. The second day of this event disabled, but because they are economically disad- tinue pushing the event to learn Disability theory took place in the Herndon Galley, 1st floor South. vantaged. more and give people the positive meaning about One of the biggest features was the lecture of dis- Disability, the discrimination against people with ability rights movement and academics by Jane Jar- disability will be excluded. row who works at Disability Access Information “In academic level, Disabil- This event was planned by Events Manager Vic- Support. ity theory links with other aca- toria Adams-Cheatham who was interested in Dis- According to Jarrow, a person with a disability ability Theory class and hoping to discuss about this is someone who has limits of the major activities demic such as queer theory and difficult topics in whole campus. After realizing her such as walking, sleeping, eating, breathing, learn- wish, she said “this event, especially conversation ing, hematic functioning, pulmonary functioning, feminism theory” was successful. It is challenging for me to think of cardiac functioning. As next one of the biggest program, the panel disability.” As for the history of disability, people who are discussion about Disability in Higher Education A student who attended said. “I took Disabil- blind have a long history of prominence in U.S. The took place, featuring Robert McRuer, Chris Smith, ity theory class before, then, I participated in this general public seems to be afraid of becoming blind Isabella Winkler, and John Smith. Audience mem- event. I think Antioch College has changed the ac- themselves, therefore, they tend to be indifferent to bers and panelists exchanged occasionally intense tivity and the educational support related to Disabil- people who are blind. People with mobility impair- opinions. ity over the time. This situation will be better.”

 Target Enrollment: How Board Decisions May Have Sealed Antioch’s Fate

By Diana Starkweather Falling numbers in new student enrollment was indicated as one of the key issues in the Board of Trustees’ decision to close Antioch College. This year alone, there were three different new student enrollment goals: 125 as reported in the Antioch College Enrollment Projection for the Fall Term 2005/06 – 2013/14, 181 as illustrated in the An- tioch College Illustrated Funding Needs Forecast from the AdCil meeting of September 26, 2006, and 241 from the Antioch University Board of Trustees Declaration of Financial Exigency. The initial budget created in March was based on a new student enrollment of 135, a target that was nearly reached before the Board of Trustees an- nounced their decision in June, and was anticipated to be obtained by the start of the fall term. At least 112 deposits had been received by Admissions, ac- cording to Admissions Director Angie Glukov, but after the announcement new student enrollment dropped to 65. With the goal that the 2007-08 bud- get was to be based on nearly achieved, why did the BoT make its decision? Moreover, what adminis- trative decisions led to the decreasing enrollment numbers? The History about the new curriculum. It started before we had anticipating a 25% matriculation rate, and 100 par- a chance to start a marketing campaign for it.” This tial applications, expecting a 10% conversion rate. In 2002 and 2003, new student registrations re- led to a radical drop in new student enrollment from So by the time of the board meeting in June the col- flected 190 and 182 students, respectively, mark- 124 in 2004 to 57 in 2005. lege was very close to meeting the enrollment goal ing a four percent decline. In 2004, after a series After this devastating year, enrollment grew to set by the March budget. of budget cuts, new student enrollment dropped to 120 new students, a 148% increase and a remark- In Antioch’s case, with a historically small en- 124, a 32 percent decrease from the previous year. able feat. dowment, the school is substantially dependent This reduction in the number of enrolled students Other important factors that have affected previous on tuition revenue. Thus, it is very important that did not occur because prospective students simply enrollment numbers are turnover within the Admis- actual new student enrollment is consistent with lost interest in the college, or because of a lacking sions Department, and substandard facilities. When the projected enrollment that the budget is based in the marketability of the college. The decline was asked if the Admissions Department had proper on because tuition revenues heavily fund campus directly related to the budget cuts that affected the funding and staff, Skotte, who was on the admis- operations. Admissions Department. sions team for five years until this February, com- The problem is that Admissions was given a tar- These cuts meant the dismissal of two admissions mented, “It came and went; it was like peaks and get enrollment, based on the financial need of the counselors, whose jobs entailed traveling around valleys. Sometimes we had plenty of money… and college by the BoT that differed from the numbers the country to recruit new students. Restructuring sometimes we had no money.” He contributed this used in the initial budget. This, among other fac- in the Admissions Department left only two people partially to the rapid turnover in leadership, i.e. the tors, led to inconsistency as to which goals should to market Antioch to the world. Admissions coun- Dean of Admissions position. He states that a Dean be met. This year the Board projected a goal of selor Angie Glukov comments, “We recruit nation- with more experience in the college will be taken 181 new student enrollments, according to Glukov, ally. You don’t do that with two people.” One other more seriously when asking for additional fund- which includes 1st years and transfer students. Yet, counselor remained, but that position shifted from ing than one without that experience. “It’s just the several other projected goals exist in several differ- a recruiting role to an operations role, managing ad- nature of how those kinds of relationships work.” ent documents, and according to Skotte, the target missions mailings, among other things, to prospec- Glukov also added that periodic turnover is typical Admissions had been working toward was never tive students. in Admissions, but not in leadership. “Counselors 181. “We were told the goal was 120, and that’s At the same time, these cuts led to a decision to get you burn up every two years…[but] we had the re- what we were shooting for.” rid of search names, which play a key role in student verse. We had counselors who stayed and stayed Furthermore, there was never any indication that recruitment. Search names come from standardized and stayed, but the leadership didn’t.” the college’s persistence depended on increased en- tests that include a section which inquires if the test According to the Renewal Commission, substan- rollment. During the past few years, according to taker would like to have colleges send information dard facilities further hinder new student enrollment, Skotte, decisions made by the Admissions Commit- to them. The names of the individuals who select “particularly because many of Antioch’s competi- tee focused not only on meeting admission goals, this option are then bought by colleges. Without the tors undertook significant building programs dur- but also stressed increased selectivity. So the ad- budget to do this, Antioch lost the ability to know ing the capital markets boom of the 1990s”. Skotte missions team became more selective in admitting what students might be interested in coming to the points out that typically yield rate, the percentage students; while standards of test scores and G.P.A.s college. “At the very start we were hamstrung be- of students admitted who attend, increases when were going up, the percent of students admitted cause there wasn’t anyone to send materials off to. students visit the college. “[When] they put forth was decreasing, according to Skotte. Quality over There wasn’t anyone to get really interested in the the effort to actually visit…it shows that they’re quantity is what Skotte believes represented the program. …Antioch is a compelling story, so when interested in coming.” While this is true at most real goal, and finding the students that were suited you get a chance to tell people about it then they get colleges, for the last few years it has been the op- to the Antioch environment- which makes sense very interested. But when there’s no one to tell, it posite at Antioch. “Among students who visited us, with Antioch’s poor record of retention rates among gets a lot tougher,” says Christian “Skooter” Skotte, our yield rate was actually lower. So students were students. “Shooting for 120 and trying to increase former Senior Assistant Director of Admissions and more likely to come if they didn’t see the place than the selectivity is a very different beast than shoot- Chair of the Admissions Committee. if they did come.” ing for 181 and we absolutely need 181 to keep the Additionally, in 2004, it was decided to begin doors open,” Skotte adds. “If we had been told that implementing a new curriculum based on learn- The Problem from the beginning, we would have done things re- ing communities in which one subject is studied ally differently.” While Glukov’s recall of the en- from varied angles by professors from different de- This year, before the announcement in June, at rollment goal does not coincide with Skotte’s, she partments to illustrate the interconnectivity of the least 112 new students had paid their $200 enroll- agrees that increasing the number of students en- curriculum. The board originally gave the faculty ment deposits, and it was projected by Admissions rolling was not suggested as a pressing issue. “We a time span of two years to rearticulate their pro- that this number would grow to 135 new students all knew that enrollment numbers were significant gram of study, but this was later sped up to only one before the start of the term, according to Glukov. to the survival [of the college], but we were un- year, according to an article in the Yellow Springs The initial budget presented in March was based on aware that this was a pressing concern.” News. tuition revenues coming from a freshman class of During this curricular redevelopment, student re 135, according to Steven Duffy , who was present For complete enrollment projection graphs, see cruitment continued, but was dwarfed. Glukov at the alumni board and budget meetings that pro- www.recordonline.org states, “It wasn’t the new curriculum. It was not jected this data. This number was based on Admis- having information [to give to prospective students] sions having received 500 completed applications,  Community Governance

formatting and clarity issues, perhaps with the as- about the best way to handle unannounced media ComCil Discusses Media sistance of some Comcil members, so Comcil could and the likely press frenzy predicted this coming vote on the protocol before the upcoming Board of weekend. Guidelines for Homecom- Trustees meeting. The protocol was unanimously After some circular discussion, Comcil decided approved. that some member would meet with Linda to co- ing Weekend Comcil then discussed declaring an official “high ordinate activities and make sure her office has the profile” situation, as defined by the media guide- additional volunteers it needs for various functions, By Natalie Martin lines, for the upcoming Board meeting. Operations such as handing out press badges. Comcil then vot- Last week’s Comcil had some trouble making Manager Corri Frohlich also asked for some chang- ed to change the media guidelines, which as part of quorum due to the illness of two members and the es to the media guidelines, including the require- the Leg Code will have to be voted on again next untimely injury of another. Community Manager ment of press to register with CG as well as with the term. The measure was approved and the changes Chelsea Martens chaired for Fela Pierrelouis, who public relations office. For the current situation, CG will be enacted immediately. was sick. would also like the requirement to hold a meeting Comcil then lost quorum, as member Bob Devine Linda Sattem of Wellness returned to Comcil to with the community and the press, to discuss the had to leave, so all new business requiring voting continue discussing the Alumni Visitors’ Pass and complicated logistics involved. was tabled until a future meeting. Andrzej Bloch the Student Contact Protocol. The various changes Over the last two or three weeks, various media then presented some of the tentative schedules for made the previous week were presented by Events have shown up unannounced on campus, which has the Board of Trustees meeting and related events. Manager Rory Adams-Cheatem, and Comcil then made enforcing the guidelines difficult. Comcil dis- Comcil then went into closed session to discuss po- discussed various other minor changes. It was even- cussed the guidelines for a few minutes until PR tential appointments to committees, which will be tually decided that Rory would work on various Director Linda Sirk was spotted in the hallway. She dealt with in more depth this week. agreed to an impromptu discussion with Comcil planning for the closing as well as hoping and prepar- AdCil Examines College Dispatches from ing for the Board to reverse their suspension. But all Operating Budget of it is not in vain, said alumna and town business Community Meeting owner Sam Eckenrode. “Antioch hasn’t had this much press in years and it’s By Jeanne Kay an international story,” she said. Chief Operating Officer Andrzej Bloch pre- By Billy Joyce Bracing for prospective swarms of media members sented AdCil last Tuesday with the revised Community Meeting felt like learning how to tread water before the flood. Plan B was mentioned, media covering the weekend’s Board meeting and com- operating budget for Antioch College that munity members’ views of the situation, ComCil will be reviewed by the Board of Trustees this liaisons were introduced, visitor’s passes were color- coordinated, Wellness promised to be there, and stu- student representative Erin-Aja Grant and CM/OM weekend. Corri Frohlich spoke to the community about me- Questions were raised about the additional dents were asked to be aware of stranger danger. Batten down the hatches; the weekend you’ve dia guidelines. One of the major points was that the $1.4 million asbestos expense in the 06-07 press is excluded from entering private dorm spaces. budget. The official budget report that will be dreaded is upon us, and it’s sink or swim. Pulse took it down a notch with a sitting panel rep- Grant introduced herself and Julian Sharp and Mariel given to the Board of Trustees, obtained from Traiman for being point people for dealing with the the Antioch Papers, had Bloch calling it an resenting the groups whom are working to persuade the BoT to reverse the decision to close the College. press. Grant stressed the mantra of, when interviewed, unbudgeted accrued liability required by an telling your own story because Antioch’s past media audit. In AdCil, Bloch said that the expense The panel consisted of alumni, faculty, a person from town, staff, and a student-each of whom was working run-ins have had press reporting off-message and of- was due to the burning of Normant Hall and ten times incorrect information. the renovation of McGregor classroom, for on a different aspect of the survival effort. Associate Professor of Psychology Christine Smith When asked how much media will be on campus which asbestos had to be removed. Grant said, “This is a high-profile media situation.” Faculty member Hassan Rahmanian in- asked, “How many of you are sick or have been sick in the past week?” She mentioned that the New York Times was on its quired about faculty severance payments in way and that the LA Times was probably already in case the suspension decision was maintained, 40% of the people in the room raised their hand. Smith attributed the epidemic to the stress of every- town. and asked Andrzej Bloch to advocate for fac- Antioch staff member and class of ’96 Aimee ulty at the Board meeting. “I am proposing day Antioch life compounded by the gravity of the upcoming weekend and all of the work community Maruyama said, “Being cautious with the media is to the University what the faculty brought to good but telling our story is really important.” me,” answered Bloch, arguing that gradual yet members are doing to prepare for it. Pete Townsend, the professor for Geology and Envi- With the pressures of the Peak Oil Conference, substantial progress was being made in that homecoming alumni, and major press attention; Di- regard. ronmental Science, said that he was working on Plan B, the faculty lawsuit for an injunction against the rector of the Wellness Center Linda Sattem reviewed Bloch emphasized the fact that the budget visitor pass guidelines with the community. The ma- would be valid only in the case of the suspen- closure of the College. He said the faculty are suing because they weren’t included in the conversation be- jor message from this presentation is that no Antioch sion of operations. In case of a positive out- community member should hesitate to ask someone come of the Board Meeting of this weekend, fore the trustees declared financial exigency, a right, said Townsend, that is part of the faculty members’ whom is unidentified and unfamiliar to them for their “we would start from square one.” identification. If the person is in a dorm space with- Union member Carol Braun recalled that contracts. “We have a legal team that thinks every day our out a visitor’s pass the student should contact their under presidents Crowfoot and Devine, bud- RA or security immediately. Sattem especially made get details were given to Adcil, as opposed case gets stronger,” Townsend said. Associate Professor of Administration and Manage- mention that media members are not allowed in pri- to one-sheet summaries. “The process faded vate, dorm spaces. away over the years, to my disappointment,” ment Hassan Rahmanian said about a week after he learned of the Trustees’ vote to suspend operations he And from the Wellness perspective as to the out- replied Bloch. Hassan Rahmanian reiterated come of the Board’s deliberation, Sattem said the the concern: “I think it should be on the re- didn’t want to back down, “I felt an extreme drive in me…faith in Antioch, in who we are.” center would be open, “We want to be here for you cord, the dissatisfaction with the way the bud- come hell or high water. My fear is that there’s going get has been presented to AdCil…there were Rahmanian joined up with fellow professors and then alumni to formulate a legal plan and a busi- to be both.” problematic conversations here and we asked Jacob Stockwell, a Peace Studies student, said, “I’m the budget committee to come with issues ness plan to reinvigorate academics at Antioch in the wake of catastrophic Board-mandated curriculum worried that the Board is not going to make a deci- rather than overwhelming us with a bunch sion.” of numbers…so there was an elaborate pro- overhauls. The curriculum that is being worked up combines the best of the hallmarks of the curriculums “We need to make banners and signs to remind cess… gradually, for the past 5 years, AdCil trustees that that is not acceptable,” Rahmanian said, hasn’t really voted on the budget as such; the from the renewal plan, pre-renewal plan, and pre-pre- renewal plan eras. “That is the worst case scenario.” ULC took over.” Alternative plans in the wake of the possibility that AdCil did not move to approve the budget, “I started this year that this would be the best of my 22 years for me and my students,” Rahmanian told the Board didn’t capitulate to the demands of the as unresolved issues and grey areas prevented community were intimated. But hopefully, for this them from making an informed decision. the packed room, “And that starts Monday,” he said. Many community members are pulling double duty community, there will be no need for Plan B. 10 lege campuses at the time, caused crisis after crisis and found itself saddled with a crippling annual de- A Pocket History of in the 70’s, with one result being a dramatic of the preciation bill. For the next few years, every spring number of students. In 1977, the Board of Trustees found the College with a new budget crisis, causing voted to change the name of the institution as a col- hiring freezes or the firing of essential staff. Antioch College lection of scattered campuses from Antioch College The poor decision-making of the Board of Trust- to Antioch University. ees continued in 03-04, when they announced a Re- By Rowan Kaiser Guskin and the Chancellorship- In newal Plan, a massive curricular overhaul designed the 80’s, with the College in dire financial straits, to make Antioch more marketable and fix a student Founders- Antioch College was opened in Al Guskin was hired as President of the College. retention problem. The Renewal’s combination of 1853 by the Christian Connexion, with educational Guskin managed to stabilize the finances and make educational innovation and lowered costs (such pioneer Horace Mann as its first president. Antioch much-needed physical improvements to the cam- as a higher student:faculty ratio) appealed to the was non-sectarian at a time when the majority of pus. However, at the end of his time as President Board, and it was imposed from above on a skepti- colleges were affiliated with a denomination. It was in 1994, he made a critical decision for Antioch’s cal faculty and campus community. Despite their the first college to allow women and men onan future. He created the position Chancellor of the reservations, the community worked to implement equal basis, and had a female professor with equiv- University, to which the presidents of each of the the Plan, a project initially slated to take two years. alent pay to her male counterparts. During Mann’s campuses would report, instead them reporting to The Board mandated that the Renewal be pushed commencement speech of 1859, shortly before his the President of the College. This began to change through in one year, with disastrous results. Enroll- death, he uttered the phrase that became Antioch’s the basic relationship between the campuses from ment plummeted, from a slowly growing 600 or motto: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some having the College at the center, to the “federal” so students to roughly half that. In anticipation of victory for humanity.” system by which the College was supposed to be these growing pains, the Board had promised that In 1919, the College was in dire financial straits, “first among equals.” The President of the College they would provide the money for five years of the and appointed innovative dam engineer Arthur was, initially, given priority over the heads of the Renewal. Lower-than-expected enrollment the Morgan to the Board of Trustees. Morgan, a social other campuses by being allowed to report directly next year, however, somehow changed the Board’s utopian, quickly became President, and initiated a to the Board of Trustees. In 2001-02, this privilege minds, and they pulled the plug on the Renewal series of changes, none more radical than the “co- was eliminated when the College President was in June, 2007, declaring financial exigency, and operative education program” where every other forced to report to the Trustees through the Univer- that the College was “suspending operations” and term, students would work at jobs, then return to sity Chancellor, a move with considerable pragmat- would reopen better than ever in 2012. study. The co-op program, more real-world than ic as well as symbolic ramifications. The popular narrative that Antioch was “too the internships now so widely available in Ameri- A few structural flaws in the governance system liberal” for the marketplace falls apart under any can higher education, became Antioch’s main claim led Antioch towards financial ruin. First, the scat- reasonable examination. The real explanation for to fame. tered nature of the campuses, with only one Board Antioch College’s almost-demise lies in an increas- Golden Age and “the Network”- After for all of them, created a disconnect between the ingly authoritarian, hidden, and unaccountable Uni- World War II, and through the mid-1970’s, Antioch Trustees and any of the campuses, especially the versity decision-making process. As their decisions College thrived, with upwards of 2000 students College. More importantly, the University Leader- weakened and crippled the College, they systemati- and a national reputation as an elite liberal arts col- ship, especially the Chancellor, controlled the flow cally removed any recourse for the College within lege. Many of the most famous alumni came from of information to the Trustees, creating a closed the system. The two most devastating decisions in this period: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Stephen Jay system which exacerbated poor decision-making. recent Antioch history, the Financial Stabilization Gould, Rod Serling, and Coretta Scott King. “Stabilization” and “Renewal”- The be- plan and the hurried implementation of the Renewal Beginning in the mid-60’s and through the 80’s, ginning of the end for Antioch College occurred in Plan were both run over a College under an interim a series of satellite campuses were purchased or 2001-2002, when a slow economy helped create a President. The University lost its attachment to An- founded all over the country. Most failed and dis- budget deficit. The Board of Trustees and the Uni- tioch College’s core values of shared governance appeared. The unsustainable growth of both the versity leadership instituted a Financial Stabiliza- and social justice, and the College paid the price. College’s student body and the satellite campuses, tion and Consolidation plan. The crux of the plan along with the political upheavals common on col- was that the College lost control of its own finances, Popularity Planner Starting October 26 Friday Saturday Sunday >> 4:15 p.m. in the C-Shop: RAB >> 1:00 p.m. in The Herndon Gallery: Photo Symposium >> 11:15 a.m. in The Caf: Community Brunch >> 7:00 p.m. in The Herndon Gallery: Gallery Open- >> 4:00 p.m. in McGregor 113: Community Meeting >> 1:00 p.m. in the Wellness Center: Studying On a ing >> 6:00 p.m. in Mills Kitchen: Vegan Potluck Lazy Afternoon >> 7:30 p.m. in the Dharma Center: Meditation Din- >> 10:00 p.m. in the Computer Lab on the 2nd floor of >> 3:00 p.m. in the Antioch Area Theatre: The Sacred ner Library: Photoshop Workshop Fire >> 8:00 p.m. in the Fishbowl: Challenging Sexism in >> 11:00 p.m. in the Dance Space: Homecoming Dance >> 6:00 p.m. in the Antioch Environmental Center: the Radical Community AEG Meeting >> 9:00 p.m. in Pennell House: Open Mike! >> 8:00 p.m. in the Queer Center: Sex Week Plan- >> 9:00 p.m. at Wellness Center : Friday Night ning Meeting Events/ Chem Free Parties >> 11:00 p.m. on the Golf Course: Bonfire Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday >> 8:00 p.m. in the Wellness Center: The >> 8:00 a.m. in Main Building Confer- >> 12:00 p.m. in the McPhaden Room, >> 3:00 p.m in the Main Building Con- Icharus Project ence Room: AdCil Antioch Inn: Campus Greening Com- ference Room: ComCil >> 9:00 p.m. behind the C-Shop: Save >> 3:00 p.m. in McGregor 113: Commu- mittee >> 7:00 p.m. in the Wellness Center: Antioch! nity Meeting >> 8:30 p.m. in the Wellness Center: Dream Group >> 7:00 p.m. in the Philosophy Lounge in Survivor’s Group Main Building: Dialogia >> 7:00 p.m. in the Wellness Center: Radical Crafting >> 10:00 p.m. in the Wellness Center: Story Time

11 The Antioch Diaspora: Antioch University 1963-2007

By Alex Borowicz ple collecting money for black lung,” said Lumley. with the capitalist system... would certainly mean The Putney School was a small floundering school In only four years, the Washington-Baltimore affirmation of the capitalist system,” and would of 12 students in tiny Putney, Vermont when An- Campus began to break apart. Edward Tulis, the completely negate the college’s claim to neutrality. tioch acquired it in 1963. It was unaccredited and in director of the Human Ecology Center was a propo- Regardless of inter-campus tension, the college’s the end its trustees decided it was no longer viable. nent of the division, saying “the four centers have Administrative Council (AdCil) still oversaw much The school raised a cry for help, first to Goddard different educational goals and directions.” He also of the creation of Antioch-Columbia. The proposal College, its neighbor, and finally to Antioch Col- noted the difficulty of maintaining a unified campus brought to Adcil in 1969 was the continuation of lege. With the encouragement of college president with its units so far from one another. dialogue with developer James Rouse, the man be- James Dixon, Adcil approved an ad hoc committee Only one year before, the Center for the Study of hind the construction of the city of Columbia. It to consider the proposal. Basic Human Problems seemed to be moving out of specified that while Antioch College would be re- Before long, The Putney School would become a rough patch towards stability and students seemed sponsible for locating funding for the foundation Antioch-Putney, the first in a long list of Antioch to understand the reasoning behind keeping distinct of the college, after its establishment the college campuses and centers around North America. Put- centers at a distance from one another. “Each cen- would no longer be responsible for its continuation ney, “an atypical adventure in beyond Baccalaure- ter has a different purpose,” said Geraldine Love in and instead the Columbia campus would pay the ate education,” according to Dixon, quickly began an interview in 1972. college a predetermined fee. to establish satellites to its own graduate program, Nevertheless, new developments in Maryland Antioch-Columbia required further searches for funds. One notable with centers in Philadelphia and the District of Co- instance involved a grant of $100,000 in June of lumbia. 1971 for “studies related to the construction and Perhaps the greatest dichotomy erupted between use of an inflatable building in Columbia, Md.” In Antioch Graduate School of Education students at Antioch College and Antioch-Columbia. 1972 the Record revealed that the “Bubble” facil- The Columbia campus was constructed as an ex- ity would include “offices, classrooms, studios, a greenhouse, and possibly a school The Antioch Graduate School and playground area.” The inflat- of Education was born out of the able building was built, but poor acquisition of The Putney School, planning in relation to its heating and had expanded into programs in and cooling made it virtually un- eight different states. The school usable for most of the year. in Putney didn’t last beyond 1971 when it was moved to Harrisville, New Hampshire where the college University Without Walls had purchased land. Some con- flict erupted after the purchase of The exponential expansion of the Harrisville property between Antioch seemed to encourage the William Van Arsdale, director of idea of novelty in higher educa- the Putney center and Stuart Whit- tion, and in 1969 Drs. Sam Baskin ney, after Whitney’s appointment and Goodwin Watson, members to the new position of “Director of the Antioch College faculty, of Antioch New England.” Van created a brand new program Arsdale maintained that the Har- called University Without Walls. risville center was to be part of Essentially a coterie of colleges Antioch-Putney, while Whitney and universities, University With- asserted that Antioch New Eng- out Walls (UWW) allows students land was to be a separate center in who are highly self motivated to New Hampshire. attend, in some manner, the par- Throughout the 1960s, graduate ticipating institutions and take programs were opened in Austin, advantage of their resources while Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- self-directing their studies. ington, and Denver as well as a Universities Without Walls came center in Yellow Springs. In 1974, at a perfect time for Antioch. With the Harrisville center moved once a wealth of new and fairly special- more to its final resting place in ized centers around the country, Keene, New Hampshire. UWW students had ample oppor- tunities to compass any style of education they might desire. Antioch East April of 1970 brought the ap- The Antioch map begins to get proval of a motion in Adcil that a little difficult to navigate, as eased the college into the UWW “Antioch East” opened campuses program. Within a few short throughout the District of Colum- years, the college was joined by bia area. Antioch Washington- its satellites in San Francisco and Baltimore was opened in 1969 Philadelphia. based in Columbia, Maryland and oversaw several centers in the area, such as the Antioch-West Center for the Study of Basic Human Problems in perimental college in a brand new designer city. Washington, the Center for Social Research and Planned and built by the Rouse Corporation, the Before long, in 1971, Antioch spread across the Action in Baltimore, the Center for the Arts, also in whole idea of Columbia as a city was an experiment plains to the West Coast. The San Francisco UWW Baltimore, and the Human Ecology Center in Co- in business: that a company might build and own center expanded into a full campus. West was lumbia, Maryland. and entire city. The Rouse Corporation approached founded by a faculty member, Joseph McFarland, But Antioch just kept growing. Moving further the college to inquire about opening a new branch and a Yellow Springs student, Lance Dublin, as a down the coast from the original satellite location of Antioch in the new city. center for psychology. As it grew, its evolving pro- in Vermont, Washington-Baltimore opened a new Antioch decided to take advantage of the experi- grams attracted mostly practicing professionals. offshoot in 1971. The Southern Appalachian Cen- mental atmosphere in opening a campus whose ap- West branched out, much as the centers on the ter, located in Huntington, West Virginia, is a child proach to higher education was not based on class- East Coast, and it included, from 1971 to 1985, of the program at the Center for the Study of Basic es, but rather on individual non-structured learning. centers as far north as North Slope, Alaska, as far Human Problems. The new center was constructed “Here people study on their own,” said Corine west as Honolulu, Hawaii, and as far east as Corpus with the intent, according to the center, to be “a Odiorne, a Columbia student from Yellow Springs, Christi, Texas. work-oriented undergraduate school dedicated to in 1970. “You really have to think, to reorient your- In some cases, the centers were not around for teaching the true nature of Appalachian society and self to finding what is meaningful for you, rather more than a few years. This reflects the original to serving the working men and women who built than work academically for someone else.” idea of the college expansion, in which new loca- it.” Antioch College students commonly viewed the tion would open as research centers with the help After an eighty-day, 9,000 mile trip to visit 18 idea of the vast business venture that was Colum- of students who would engage in experiential and of the then 25 Antioch Campuses in 1975, Antioch bia, Maryland with distaste. In a letter to the editor self-driven learning, one of the keystones of An- College students Saskia Jordan and Katherine Lum- of the Record in December of 1968, Gudrun Muz tioch education. ley had a strong experience of comparison within and Michael Vickers argue that “for those of us who the greater Antioch system. “I remember going to are committed to the removal of the corporate men- West Virginia where there were coal mines and peo- ace from our glorious shores, Antioch’s compliance 12 The Antioch Diaspora: Antioch University 1963-2007

Campus Tensions of the division formed by that statement, Birenbaum payroll. Guskin continued the task of consolidating went on to say that he hoped “very soon to announce the University, closing campuses like Philadelphia, Despite the widespread contentedness over the the first university-wide degree program.” and the Antioch Law School in Washington, as well programs offered on the Washington-Baltimore The change to a university system also brought a as many of the centers of Antioch West. campus, many students were displeased with the shift to gain a stronger hold on the greater Antioch Guskin went on to create the position of Chan- flagship in Yellow Springs. “Yellow Springs is Network. Financial problems began to necessitate cellor of the University, that would oversee all the existential,” said student Jessie Rhines in 1972. the closing of some centers and by 1982, only seven units of the University, while allowing a separate “There are definite problems in this country and centers beyond the college remained. campus president to focus time and energies on the Yellow Springs is theorizing.” operations of the college. Guskin inserted himself Tension between students attending satellite cam- into this new position. puses and centers and those at the college in Yellow Springs was not uncommon. Lumley and Jordan “There are Antioch students at an Looking Back had a significant base of knowledge for compari- son. Reflecting on her trip more than thirty years Eskimo college in Barrow, Alaska, “The one feature of the network arrangement, later, Lumley remembered the antagonism. “The however, which is treasured by all components of campuses that weren’t the main [campus] feel as if a Chicano School in Texas, and in the College,” wrote Saskia Jordan, “is the autono- they’re second class,” she said. my of all the individual centers—the right to oper- On the opposite end, anxiety about the satellites Minnesota Prisons” ate their programs independently within guidelines was prevalent on campus. Students saw Antioch established by the college officers.” exploding into a quickly uncountable number of Looking back on the trip she took with Katy Lum- centers and campuses opening, closing, and being ley to visit the various then-Network centers, Jor- renamed. Students at the Yellow Springs campus While many of the centers were cut loose from the dan witnessed the realization , across the nation, of often were unaware of the fiduciary impact of the college, not all were forced to close. The Juarez- the personification of the Antiochian. She found new centers on the college. Lumley noted that Lincoln Center in Austin, Texas made a move in that “across the Antioch map was a similarity of many of the campuses were “bringing money into early 1978 to become independent. Affiliated with the people who founded, directed, and participated Yellow Springs” and that many students didn’t real- Antioch in 1971 as a component of the Antioch in the programs….That a common bond exists in ize this at the time. Graduate School of Education, Juarez-Lincoln was terms of a total commitment and excitement with But in 1973, Professor of Political Science John formed “as a group of Chicanos who moved to Aus- their programs.” Sparks wrote a conclusive jeremiad in the form of tin and formed a corporation,” writes Steve Mueller a panoptic open letter to the Board of Trustees. In in 1978. The corporation sought the aid of the col- five main points, Professor Sparks outlined the neg- lege in opening a school and Antioch provided the ative consequences of the creation of “a bewilder- resources for new Antioch bachelors’ and masters’ “The campuses that weren’t the main ing conglomeration of Network enterprises” on the programs in Austin. main campus in Yellow Springs. In Minneapolis, a center called the Antioch-Min- [campus] feel as if they’re second Sparks began by pointing out how many admin- neapolis Communiversity decided to break away istrators and officers of the college were being re- from the college due to the college’s new bid for class” moved or moved into the employ and support of the control of its veritable scions. The Minneapolis Antioch Network. Even offices like those of the center offered a program based strongly in previous And what was Antioch? Who were the Antio- Registrar and admissions were shifted to the use of experiential knowledge, and maintained a strong chians of the 1960s and 70s? They were students all campuses and centers reducing accessibility for prison education program, allowing prisoners to across the United States and even into Canada who students in Yellow Springs. earn degrees and attend class while incarcerated. wanted more than a “traditional” college expe- Sparks was most disturbed that the Board of Trust- The Communiversity was bound by a contract to rience. Indeed, in 1965, fearing the death of the ees had given President James Dixon the authority the college, but differences between the college and non-traditional school, presidents from ten colleges over this sweeping morass of educational centers. the Communiversity led to a mutual agreement to came together to form Union for Experimental Col- At Dixon’s request, the Trustees also “removed part ways after 1978. leges and Universities, an organization that would from the charter the authority of the Administrative Other centers, such as the Appalachia center and be based in Yellow Springs. “There are Antioch Council to elect Trustees, to join with the Board in Antioch Washington experienced continuing defi- students at an Eskimo college in Barrow, Alaska, the selection of the President, and to advise with the cits and were perceived as no longer viable branch- a Chicano School in Texas, and in Minnesota Pris- President on the educational program and the man- es. ons,” wrote Jordan. agement of the College.” For 31 years these rights Antioch Appalachia suffered from fiscal difficul- In 1974, Provost Morris Keeton presented a report had been in the power of Adcil, since the time of ties as well as what Birenbaum called “managerial that detailed “four alternative futures for Antioch.” Algo Henderson, when Adcil was first formed. and program problems.” Conflict emerged between The first future was simply a “maintenance of the The motivation behind this “deletion of powers” the two centers when Bob Snyder, director of An- status quo.” The second, “retrenchment and en- came from Dixon’s realization that it was not rea- tioch-Appalachia, perceived that Birenbaum was hancement toward a compact pre-doctoral college.” sonable for the Administrative Council to be ex- seeking to defame the academic merit of the institu- The third was, “one that now looks much like what pected to manage all of centers and “the progeny tion, and may have gone so far as to “put a freeze Antioch has become today.” And the fourth, “one of these centers which had been created wholly by on grant applications originating from” the center, for a more diverse and expanded university.” Infor- administrative authority and about which the Ad- according to Alex Eismann. mally, the college opted for option three. ministrative Council had never been consulted.” In an interview in 1978, following the closure, But change, it seems, was inevitable. Not long af- The plan was to create a “Campus Council” on each Birenbaum said “there are certain educational op- ter that report, President Dixon was removed from of the campuses of the Antioch Network, as well erations where in my judgment the delivery has his office and the administration of Antioch College as the Antioch College Council which would repre- been bad… and I see no reasonable hope. We’ve changed to suit the vision of a new president. No sent all of the college’s components. This plan was cut those out. Appalachia is a case in point.” longer was the exponential expansion optimal. The supported by a resolution adopted by the Board of administration felt the need to put definite bound- Trustees in May of 1972 with the intention of hav- Towards the Future aries in place and establish itself as the one cen- ing such a council created by the end of June, 1973. tral point of control. The autonomy of the network Birenbaum led the way towards a more consoli- centers would be short lived, forcing those like the It was never brought to reasonable fruition. dated University. When asked if he viewed the uni- Minneapolis center to pull away from the college. versity centers as a burden, Birenbaum maintained In the end, the University established itself as The Reformation that he looked “upon them at this stage as both a five main components. These components, Antioch burden and a blessing. They’re a burden in that we College, Antioch New England, Antioch University The mid-1970s began to wear on the college fol- have not yet solved how to do it well.” Los Angeles, Antioch University Seattle, Antioch lowing the advent of economic woes and the student Over his term, Birenbaum learned and progressed, University Santa Barbara, and Antioch University strike of 1973. Antioch’s innumerable campuses eventually whittling down the University to Antioch McGregor, are all that remains of what was once a and centers, sprouting up and closing in no discern- West, with programs in San Francisco, Los Ange- far-reaching and venerable institution that catered ible order, began to be so far flung that centralized les, Seattle, Denver, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and to all needs and sought to explore education in ev- control seemed increasingly impossible. Extensive Honolulu; the Antioch Law School in Washington, ery context possible. debate surrounding the Antioch Network culmi- DC; the Antioch New England Graduate School, From Yellow Springs to Putney, Vermont, from nated in the eventual removal of President James in Keene, New Hampshire; and Antioch Philadel- Baltimore to San Francisco, from Alaska to Ha- Dixon and the implementation of his replacement, phia in addition to the college campus in Yellow waii, from Minneapolis to Austin, and at last back William Birenbaum. Springs. to Yellow Springs, Antioch has made a lasting im- In 1977, the Board of Trustees began the process Antioch’s financial woes continued, and in 1986 pact on the fate of higher education in America and to incorporate as a University. “Antioch shouldn’t Alan Guskin replaced Birenbaum as College Presi- beyond. Though it may not be recognized in the feel hassled by changing its designation… this is dent. Guskin brought a strong focus on finance to history books, Antioch educations of all types have Antioch College,” President Birenbaum told com- his his presidency, bringing the college out of a low impacted the lives of people far beyond the confines munity members over cheese and wine. Regardless period in which the college hadn’t managed to meet of one small community in Yellow Springs, Ohio. 13 Real World News

On October 10 of this year, Congress voted to recognize that between 1915 Turkey Votes to Invade and 1923, the Ottoman Empire, what is now modern Turkey, committed geno- cide against the Armenians. One and a half million Armenians were killed by a forceful march towards the deserts of Syria and Iraq which most often meant Northern Iraq, Iraq and death. It is also considered the first genocide in the century. It is dangerous to swing that word ‘genocide’ around with current conflict United States Scramble to because it lends responsibility to stop it, and The United States has proven that it doesn’t want to get tied into foreign sorties that wouldn’t benefit the US directly, as is the case with Burma, Darfur or Rwanda in 1994 to name a few Avoid Northern Skirmishes recent examples. But with an atrocity that far in the past all it can do is inflame national pride and anti-American sentiment in Turkey, one of very few allies By Carl Reeverts in the region. Particularly dubious timing because just seven days later, Turkey Iraq barely avoided a huge complication this week. On Monday, Turkey was nearly started a new offensive into Kurdish controlled northern Iraq. Having marching its way to invade northern Iraq. The increase in aggression is the voted to allow major military incursions into Iraq to control the frequent at- result of several attacks by a Kurdish militia resulting in the death of a dozen tacks by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who are beginning to feel em- Turkish soldiers and the capture of an additional eight. In a rash of last minute boldened because of the freedoms enjoyed since Iraq has been “liberated” and diplomacy, and an appeal from Condolezza Rice, Ali Babacan, the Turkish the lack of an occupying force in the region. foreign minister said “We will try all diplomatic means before carrying out any military operation.” US officials have stated that it is up to Iraq to pressure Community Voices the group responsible for the attacks, known as the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. Gabriella Ruiz Had an invasion occurred it would have had the potential to destabilize the If I were trying to get into the European northern region of Iraq, one of the few areas that is known for its relative stabil- Union like Turkey has been for decades ity. This is also considered a test of the ability of the Iraqi government to deal I would probably think twice about what with the issue on its own, without the use of major military force. Iraqi Prime they are doing now. A government of- Minister Nouri al-Maliki has stated his intentions to prevent further attacks. ficial in turkey had made a statement But his efforts must show results quickly as Turkish Prime Minister Recep which made the EU think twice about Tayyip Erdogan has stated his intentions to take matters into his own hands if their application, he said that it would be progress is not made quick enough and continues to reserve the right to use its really great if Turkey joined the EU be- mandate and invade at any time. The conflict has the potential to spread quickly cause Europe is really economically and and that would most likely involve American soldiers which would beleaguer politically liberal, culturally diverse, also an already weary force and wrap this war into an increasingly tight knot. because it would strengthen Turkey’s de- Turkey has recently started to utilize airstrikes near the border, in an attempt fense system. And then all of a sudden it to shut off transport and supply lines from PKK in Iraq. Turkey has also been seems like its all about military. There are shelling areas in northern Iraq for the last few days but so far reports of soldiers other factors involved but I’m sure this aggression doesn’t help. or airplanes into Iraqi territory has yet to be verified.

Dumbledore is Gay Georgia Experiencing record News Briefs droughts By Carl Reeverts A character in the popular Harry Potter series has been outed by the author J.K Rowling. The author reportedly After a historic five months of drought, Wildfires in Southern California said that while writing the character she always imagined Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has de- him to be gay. Andrew Slack, head of the Harry Potter Al- clared a state of emergency in over a third Over a half million people have been liance said that “after she outed Dumbledore, Rowling said of the southeastern coastal state. A lake that told to evacuate their houses in south- that she viewed the whole series as a prolonged treatise on supplies fresh drinking water to at least five ern California due to rapidly spreading tolerance. Dumbledore is the personification of this.” million people has gone dry. However, de- wildfires. Nearly three hundred thousand Sources: LA Times spite growing fears of substantial damage to acres have been burned in what Gover- the economy due to water scarcity the areas nor Schwarzenegger is calling a perfect most affected have yet to develop plans to storm, a combination of dry weather, Kids under 6 should not use cold medicine conserve water or even call on industry and high temperatures and winds. There are residents to reduce usage, save a call from A panel of experts from the food and drug administration several fires, at least six that spread from the governor to ‘take shorter showers.’ The have voted to recommend that no child or infant under the Santa Barbara to the border of Mexico. army corps of engineers has released pro- age of six consume cough medicine. Studies conducted Containment of the fires is still days tected water from another lake in Alabama by the agency concluded that the cough suppresents and away. New fires around LA and San Di- to meet need, a move that will compromise chemical sedation in most childrens cough medicines pose ego have promoted mass evacuations. endangered species around the lake. Be- high risks even at normal dosage and do not outweigh po- Around San Diego ten thousand evacuees sides a harsher than normal drought, other tential benefits. Children’s fever reducers containing acet- have taken refuge at Qualcomm Stadium. culprits in this crisis are said to be unre- aminophen or ibeprophin are not included in this study and Over twelve hundred homes have been stricted population growth and blatant wa- are deemed safe. destroyed and many more are at risk. ter mismanagement, a claim that the office Sources: LA Times, BBC, New York Sources: New York Times, LA Times of the governor has rejected. Times Sources: Washington Post, New York Times 14 Real World News PRESIDENTIALPROFILEs REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT NOMINATION Democratic Nomination

Stephen T. Colbert in as Wikiality: Truth by Consen- Dennis Kucinich sus, “any user can change any 2008: entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes The Little Engine Truthiness true”. There is no more demo- cratic knowledge system in that Could existence, and his patriotism is and Justice for unquestionable for his creation of it. Colbert also takes a very By Bryan Utley All different view of race and gen- The Story of Dennis Kucinich reminds me der from of a story from childhood. The story is of a his political opponents and little locomotive that time and time again By Zachary Gallant his chosen political party. He fails at getting over a particularly hard hill No Platform. No Allegiances. claims to be color-blind (“Peo- until he finally conquers his objective. Den- Nothing to Lose. When I called ple tell me I’m white, and I be- nis has seen many hills. Dennis Kucinich’s Mitt Romney the perfect can- lieve them, because I own a lot political career started early at age 23 when didate, it seems I overstated. of Jimmy Buffett albums”) and he was elected to Cleveland’s city council. Romney is a true and talented unable to distinguish the sexes He remained in that seat until 1997, when he politician, one of the best I’ve (“I only see an American”). His was elected Mayor of Cleveland. While May- seen, but this is something spe- environmental policies have or at Cleveland, it was reported that when tant, this issue hurt very little when it came cial. Fred Thompson was bank- only one focus: A deep-seated he refused to sell Cleveland’s public power to the support of the progressive Democrats. ing on being the actor to fill the hatred of bears (“godless kill- company there was a contract put out for Ku- Although never seen as a serious candidate, geriatric’s nostalgia for Rea- ing machines”) and his desire cinich by the mob. The hit was botched when it was Kucinich whose presence forced the gan, but the fact is, his profile to see them go from “Dead To Kucinich became ill and canceled a speech important issues to be discussed in the cam- got bumped to next week in the Me” to just Dead. However, where the assassin was supposed to shoot paign. A favorite among liberals, he did little Antioch Record in favor of this based on Wikiality, he is will- him. He was defeated in 1979 by George damage to the rest of the candidates. newcomer, imagine what this ing to concede the Global Voinovich, Ohio’s current Sr. Senator. After After the election, he went back to his con- will do to his publicity in the Warming point to Liberalism, his defeat Kucinich received the title of one gressional seat to rabble-rouse. In 2005 he Washington Post or the New as “Al Gore’s movie made of the worst big city Mayors in history. He voted against the Iran Freedom and Support York Times. Barack Obama money. The Free Market has left Ohio for California, where he went from Act calling it a move towards war with Iran. was counting on the youth vote spoken.” job to job until almost losing his house in Also in 2005, he signed a letter of solidarity to drive his candidacy, but he’s Not the only candidate to Cleveland. He soon came back to his native with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Al- about to get bumped by the base his policies on public Ohio again this time running for the office ways controversial, Dennis Kucinich, along guy whose show follow’s John opinion, but certainly the only of Secretary of State eventually losing to a with Ron Paul, voted against the Rothman- Stewart, a man stealing the one to admit it so blatantly and young Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s current Jr. It Kirk Resolution which calls for the United ever-dependable stoner vote openly. Colbert’s backhanded wasn’t until 1996 when success came to Ku- Nations to charge Iranian President Mah- with his Ben and Jerry’s flavor honesty about politics is truly cinich in the form of a seat in congress. moud Ahmadinejad with violating the geno- AmeriCone Dream. A candi- refreshing and absolutely nec- The 1996 election was considered a major cide convention of the U.N charter because date like this only comes along essary in this era of microman- upset, seeing that the 10th district was a heav- of his comments on the Holocaust. Dennis once in a generation, if that. aged, prepackaged soundbytes. ily republican district. Early on in his con- Kucinich has broken the mold when it comes Stephen Colbert is Running There’s no one who does it gressional career, Kucinich was a “nobody”. to politicians. He isn’t afraid to stand up for For President. As a Republi- better, more entertainingly, or It wasn’t until 2003, when he came out big what he believes is right and never waivers can. And a Democrat. And I more scathingly than Stephen against George W. Bush’s illegal war in Iraq, no matter how controversial his assertion is. couldn’t be happier. Colbert. that he began to be noticed. The same year, Truth be told, it is unlikely that he will be Unfortunately, Colbert is he introduced a bill authored by Rep. John the democratic nominee, which makes me currently only running in one Conyers, for single payer universal health- believe that America doesn’t deserve Dennis state, South Carolina, and has care. He became known for his emotionally Kucinich. He makes us think, and many peo- no intention of actually win- charged speeches on the house floor regard- ple know Americans do not favor thinking. ning. Colbert’s ing Bush and his policies. Although having a And in a time of video games and Paris Hil- potential running mates, as mostly progressive agenda, up until 2003 he ton, it’s easy to see that America is doomed of right now, include Mike had been vehemently pro-life. It wasn’t until to become a place without critical thought or Huckabee, Governor of Ar- 2004 that he stated, “I’ve had a journey on any semblance of freedom or justice. Dennis kansas and my favorite Re- the issue. A year ago, before I became a can- Kucinich has hurdled many hills only to find publican candidate, Vladimir didate for President, I broke from a voting re- more hills ahead but without giving up. Like Putin, Stephen Colbert (his cord that had not been pro-choice. After hear- that little locomotive, he will continue until alter ego, pronounced with a ing from many women in my own life...that he has defeated that hill. hard T sound), or, my favorite, dialogue led me to wholeheartedly support a disgraced Senator Larry Craig. woman’s right to choose”. Although impor- His first interview with Tim Russert proved that beyond any Presidential Briefs GOP: According to a press release sent out While his personal politics shadow of a doubt. He outlined By Bryan Utley last Friday, Republican National Chair Mike are Democratic (he stated at it all with utter clarity: “ I don’t Duncan has decided to recommend imposing an interview with Harvard’s want to be president. I want to LOUISIANA: Congressman Bobby Jindal convention sanctions against the Republican Kennedy School of Govern- run for president. There’s a dif- (R) cruised to a comfortable victory on Sat- Party organizations in New Hampshire, South ment “I have no problem with ference. I’m running in South urday, scoring a gubernatorial pickup for the Carolina, Florida, Michigan and Wyoming to Republicans. Just Republican Carolina.” When asked if he’d GOP in the open seat contest. According to strip them of half their delegates. The sanc- policies”), for the sake of en- like to lose, he responded “I’d the New Orleans Times- Picayune, Jindal tions are in response to moves in each of those tertainment, it is a sure thing like to lose twice. I’d like to began the race as the frontrunner and never states which advanced Presidential primary that it will be the O’Reilly lose as both a Republican and lost his momentum. It was big turnaround for contests ahead of those officially authorized inspired Right-Wing Funda- a Democrat. I think the state- Jindal, who narrowly lost for Governor four by the RNC. mentalist character running for ment that would make is that I years ago. In winning, Jindal becomes the first Indian-American Governor in the United CONGRESS: By a vote of 273-156, the president, and it is his positions was able to get on the ballot in House failed by just 13 votes to get the 2/3 and biography I will cover in South Carolina and if I can do States and the youngest Governor in the na- tion at age 36. vote required to override President Bush’s veto this article. it, so can you.” of the SCHIP legislation to increase funding Refusing to pander, Stephen We need Stephen Colbert. KENTUCKY: A new WHAS-TV/Survey- by $35 billion for a national children’s health Tiberius Colbert has supported More than he knows. He’s al- USA poll confirms Governor Ernie Fletcher insurance program aimed at helping middle- President Bush’s policies and ready leading all of the minor (R) is headed towards a landslide re-election class families. The SCHIP program covers philosophies 100% from his candidates in both parties. defeat next month. The new numbers: for- about six million children whose parents earn creation (“George Bush: Great Let’s hope he gets some real mer Lieutenant Governor Steve Beshear (D) too much to qualify for federally funded Med- President or GREATEST Pres- momentum and starts to take - 58%, Fletcher - 38% signify a likely addition icaid for the poor but don’t earn enough to af- ident?”), and has only one te- this seriously. to the democratic majority of governors. ford private health insurance. net to his political philosophy, known 15 The <>

THURSDAY ScheduleReview with the Alumni Board @ Glen t 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.: Executive Sessions Helen Building [Closed] [Closed, w/ and w/o the Chancel- t 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.: SOPP Alumni Ori- lor] entation t 9:00 - 9:45 a.m.: Governance tCom- t 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.: Town Celebration of mittee Report @ Glen Helen Building Antioch [oPeN] t 7:00-9:00 p.m.: Collaborations Open- t 9:45 - 10:45 a.m.: Governance Discus- ing @ the Herndon Gallery. sion [Closed] t 8:00 p.m.: workshop on challenging t 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Finance Com- sexism in radical communities @ the miettee [Closed] fishbowl t 1:45 - 4:15 p.m.: Alumni Board pre- t 9:00 p.m.: Pennell Open Mic and Par- sentation of Business Plan and discus- ty sion @ The Bryan Center [oPeN] t 11:00 p.m.: Bonfire @ the Golfcourse t 4:15 - 5:45 p.m.: Board Meeting Con- tinues [Closed] SATURDAY t 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.: Community Supper t 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.: Plenary Session [?] sponsored by the Alumni Board t 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Buisness Plan t 7:00 p.m.: BUSTAN Presentation @ Review [Closed] the CSKC t 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Workshop by t 8:00 p.m.: Student Union Open House alumna, Cynthia Rubin, in Photoshop, @ the second floor of the Student Indesign, and Illustrator @ 2nd floor Union Technology Classroom in the Library t 10 p.m.- Karaoke and Music Stoop t 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.: Photography Sympo- Party @ the Stoop sium @ Herndon Gallery t 4:00 p.m.:Community Meeting FRIDAY t 10:00 p.m.: Homecoming Dance @ the t 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.: Progress Report/ Dance Space State of the University [Closed] t 9:15 - 10:15 a.m.: Finance Committee SUNDAY [Closed] t 11:15 a.m.: Antioch College Commu- t 10:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.: Business Plan nity Brunch

16 Know your Board of Trustees

Arthur J. Zucker, Bruce Bedford Amy Suzon Fremi- on Chappell, MD, Nancy R. Crow Daniel Fallon, Jeffrey C. Kasch ‘55 (Treasurer) ‘73 ‘70 Ph.D. ‘61 ‘65 Director of several Neurology Specialist Pres. of Antioch Teaches teachers to Served as CEO of M.W. (Chair) private and public Interested in art, tennis, College Alumni teach Kasch Company for 27 Founder and President of companies, active performing arts. Association Wrote about co-ops/ years Zucker Associates, Inc. member of several Financial advisor, Cel- Antioch experience Partner and Director of Was appointed to Chair professional and David Crippens, list with the Centennial for The Antiochian Forum Capital Partners, the Advisory Councils charitable associa- ‘64 Philharmonic a management and in- of several companies tions. Chairman of Spent two years in Ni- vestment company represented by Zucker McGregor’s Board of geria with the Peace Howard Coleman Involved in philanthrop- Associates, Inc. Past Visitors 1993-97. Corps In 1969, be- University of Wash- ic and community work Presidents Comm. And came the Director of ington School of Law Boards member of Tem- San Diego State’s Ed- graduate ple Beth Or, the reform ucational Opportunity Jewish Synagogue in Ra- Program leigh. Kenneth R. Friedman '83

Paula A. Treichler, Kenneth R. Fried- Everette Freeman, Dianne Brou Fra- Sherwood H. Guernsey Harold (Hal) man ‘83 Ph. D ‘72 ser ‘68 II, JD, ’75 (ASL) Joseph, ‘54 Ph.D. ‘65 Since joining Friedman Rubin & White in 1999, Ken has appeared on behalf of plaintiffs in courts throughout Attorney and founder of the Current Execu- Grew up in Yellow Springs. the United States. He has successfully tried cases involving claims of sexual harassment,Member defamation, of the personalAmeri- Founder and charter Enjoys opera Law Offices of Sherwood tive Director of the Retired in 2004 from her posi- injury, police misconduct, and insurance bad faith. can Association for member of Toastmas- Alumna of Leader- Guernsey, P.C. Served as Coachella Valley En- tion teaching social medicine, Justice Eagle Member ters International’s 21st ship Jackson Peace Corps Volunteer in terprise Zone cultural studies, and femi- Ken is admitted to practice in Washington, Alaska and Montana. of the Washington State Century Club in New- Teaches and lectures Panama from 1969-1971, Has extensive ex- nist theory in the Institute of Trial Lawyers Associa- ark, New Jersey Board of around the country and then on the senior staff, perience in Urban Communications Research, Education: tion. Attorney for Fried- Trustee of The Christel as the Director of Domes- Planning, Corporate College of Medicine, and man Rubin & White House Academy. Serves tic programs in Washington Marketing and Com- Women’s Studies Program at • New York University School of Law, (JD 1987) (American Jurisprudence Award:since Evidence) 1999. Member of on Board of Directors of D.C. from 1995-1997 Serves the University of Illinois • Antioch College (BA History 1983) the Board of Directors HealthNet in Indianapo- on the Board of Directors of mercial Real Estate. In 1995, received University of the Hemp Industries lis several non-profit organiza- of Illinois College of Medi- He is admitted in the following courts: Association tions cine’s college- wide Faculty Member of the Year Award • United States Supreme Court Janet M. Morgan • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit • United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit • United States District Court Western District of WA • United States District Court Eastern District of WA • United States District Court of Alaska • United States District Court Montana • Puyallup Nation Court • Nooksack Tribal Court

Ken is a member of the American Association for Justice and is an Eagle Member of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association. President, Morgan Amadeo LLC Ken is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Hemp Industries AssociationReuben (www.thehia.or T. Harris,g). Ph. D.Janet M. MorNielsgan has P. more Lyster than 25 years ‘54 of strategic business planning, management, development, brand- Sharon R. Merri- ing, marketing, public relations and consulting Lawrenceexperience. Jan describes D. herJanet mission as M. “creating Morgan sustainable, John (Jack) G. text and photo from: (http://www.friedmanrubinwhite.com/ken_friedman.htm) President, Morgan Amadeo man ‘56 ‘69 progressive change”. She advises national and internationalStone, Ph.D., leaders on waysLLC. to strengthen Was theirthe orDirectorganization, of Not- Merselis, Jr., Served on the faculties of theregion, Uni- governmentRetired or in community 1994 as. Vice Has been a civil litiga- versity of California (Berkeley), President, Marketing, of ‘64 for-Profit Consulting Services M.D. ’96 (ANE) tor in both Federal and Massachusetts Institute of Technol-Jan Morganthe is PresidentAmerican of Mor Phosphategan Amadeo LLC,Worked an international for Metron consulting at group RSM focusing McGladrey on strategic plan in - New Practiced internal State Courts since 1975 ogy, and the Naval Postgraduatening and projectExport implementation Association for NGO’s, nonprofitInc. since organizations, 1984, governments,and York. start-up Founding companies Partnerand of medicine with the Also serves as an arbi- School (Monterey, CA) Internation-social ventureCurrently enterprises. serves on is current COO Zink Communications Mem- Williamstown Medi-trator for the National al Senior Lecturer at the Irish Man- the boards of Cardinal Was involved in ber of Social Venture Network, cal Associates for Association of Securi- agement Institute in Dublin IrelandJan was the Ritter Director High of Not-for School,-Profit Consulting In- planning Services at search RSM McGladrey op- Women in New York. DonorsThe McGladrey Network, nearly 30 years ties Dealers, The Amer- Co-authored Organizational Transi-Group is thedianapolis, fifth largest consulting, and the taxEng- and accountingerations firm for in the United U.S. States. Women She was in Director Development, of the Amer- and Current Chairman of ican Trial Lawyers, and ican Express Tax & Business Services’ Not-for-Profit Consulting Practice atAssociation the time of the RSM of McGladrey Fundraising the American Bar As- tion: Managing Complex Change lish-Speaking Union, Navy MountainOne acquisitionIndianapolis in 2005. Most recently Chapter Jan has worked with the French Institute ProfessionalsAlliance Française, Living Cities: National Community Development Corporation, Friends of the World Food Program, United Nations World sociation 17 Food Programme - Rome, Rubin Museum of Art, Jewish Recovery Houses, Fiorella H. LaGuardia Community College and Lighthouse International.

Before joining American Express TBS in 2003, Jan served as Managing Director of Media Minds Group in Greenwich CT. Her clients included Warner Lambert, Tourismo Cocha SA, D & B and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She worked with Wharton’s Emeritus Professor, Dr. Howard V. Perlmutter developing and presenting his principles of Deep Dialog and Collaborative Social Architecture.

Prior to Media Minds, Jan was a Founding Partner of Zink Communications; later acquired and known as The Zink Group, a communications and management consulting agency with more than 350 employees, 400 consul- tants and 4 locations in the US. During her 17-year tenure she advised over 50 organizations including: Apple, American Express, IBM, Citigroup, AT&T, Computer Associates, France Telecom US, Hoffmann La-Roche, Pfizer, D & B, Mercedes Benz US, Xerox, SmithKline Beecham, Merck, Metropolitan Life, Random House, Schering Plough, New York Life and William Morrow.

Jan holds a Duke Global MBA, from the Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She serves on the Board of Trustees of Antioch University. She lectures, facilitates board retreats and is a member of many organizations including Social Venture Network, Women Donors Network, Women in Development, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Bioneers, and Business for Social Responsibility.

text from: http://morganamadeo.com/employees.aspx photo from: http://www.womensbiz.us/archives/profiles0304.asp The Antioch Reviews

It’s not until the final third of the film that the impact of Mish’s Movies what’s been going on begins to fully hit and tie previous events together. After a thrilling chase scene that turns out Notes from to capture an innocent though seemingly perfect suspect, In the Valley of Elah the killers step forward. What is revealed- not particular- ly in the facts, but in their delivery- shakes By Marysia Walcerz Hank Deerfield’s convictions to his core. Underground The set-up reads like a CSI spinoff: Tommy Lee Jones delivers an Oscar-wor- By Kathryn Leahey Mark Deerfield, a soldier recently re- thy performance in agonizing silence. turned from Iraq, goes missing after four The whodunit isn’t important in this days back on base in the US. His father thriller, but the background noise- Presi- Hank, a former sergeant played heart- dent Bush’s speeches from an omnipresent wrenchingly by Tommy Lee Jones, drives radio, the words behind the eyes of Mark’s to the base only to discover that his son’s fellow soldiers, and the truth hidden under body has been found by the local police army bureaucracy- is. dismembered and burnt. Detective Em- The film ends with a shot of Hank Deerfield ily Sanders (Charlize Theoron), teams removing the American flag that he pains- up with Hank as a single mom struggling takingly turned right-side up in the begin- with her own cynicism and her fellow ning of the movie, turning it upside down, officer’s sexism in the rural police force. and duct taping the rope to the flag pole. They hunt down clues, rail against the The universal sign, as he explained previ- impenetrable façade of the army base, ously for “something fucked up here”. grill strip-bar owners, and have improb- In the Valley of Elah is playing at the ably encounters with locals in diners just Little Art Thursday (today) at 7 and 9:15. as the trail runs cold. Well worth the walk into town.

Nellie McKay Why Haven’t You Read This Yet? the leading voice of human dignity. She buries the dead Obligatory Villagers Blindness, by José Saramago when the blind cease to see the point and immediately for- gives her husband when he cheats on her. The doctor’s wife alone has true sight, putting her hurt secondary to her Nellie McKay is a songwriter who understanding of the need for care and respect to be paid is impossible to define neatly: the towards the dignity of a human being no matter how far they have fallen. lovechild of Randy Newman and Ani After a successful revolt against the dictatorship she Difranco, godchild of Cole Porter. leads the blind out of the asylum, only to discover that Her deep jazz and cabaret roots are the outside world has broken down completely. With no one capable of operating quotidian systems like plumb- seasoned with hints of hip-hop, alt- ing, structures and social order had totally collapsed. The pop, and Broadway; her lyrics causti- doctor’s wife proves her superhuman strength of character cally hilarious, prone to protest, and, when she navigates the pack through the dead that litter the streets. Despite all the horrors she has seen the doctor’s often, quite depressing. The latest wife cries only once, when she is alone and lost in the city album from her Hungry Mouse label, while scavenging for food and shelter. Obligatory Villagers, is, by far, her This book is written in a style that mimics the blindness of the characters, in long sentences that are broken up with briefest effort yet, perhaps as a reac- little punctuation. There are few paragraphs in this book tion to the reception of her largely (but and no quotation marks, the only indication for a new unfairly) ignored sophomore two-disk speaker being a capital letter in the middle of a sentence. Sometimes the reader will be unable to identify the speak- effort, Pretty Little Head. This latest By Yuko Tanaka er, and specification at these moments is unnecessary. The record, solid song-for-song, is not a One innocent afternoon I stumbled into Barnes & No- city goes unnamed, the time is unclear, and the characters perceivable departure from her previ- bles looking for a mental fix after a hard day at school. do not have names, identified only by descriptions like “the I was mildly flipping through the back covers on a table girl with the dark glasses” or “the dog of tears.” It sounds ous two LPs. In the past, my favorite of books when I found Blindness by Nobel Laureate José daunting and can admittedly be confusing, but Saramago of her songs have been those in the Saramago, which seemed to guarantee the good read I is a master at his craft. A couple of pages into the book, his activist vein, namely “Cupcake” and needed. Before I knew it, three hours had passed and I was style feels fluid, natural, and appropriate. After all, doesn’t wandering down the streets of New York with my nose it make perfect sense that in a book where the characters’ “Columbia is Bleeding”, and we can stuck in the allegorical, fast paced novel. experience of the world runs together and becomes un- see the basic feeling of these songs The book begins with a man who stops before a red light identifiable, that our words would too? echoed in the opening track, “Mother and suddenly goes blind. His ophthalmologist is baffled The only explanation Saramago gives for the blindness is when he describes the blindness as white and luminous ambiguous: “I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are of Pearl”, a mocking indictment of instead of the usual description of darkness. Investigating blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do feminism. Obligatory Visitors also this medical marvel in his books, he too suddenly goes not see.” In a book where everybody including the reader contains McKay’s most musically in- blind. Within a few days the first blind man’s wife, the man is blind, sight is the ultimate gift Saramago assigns to the who helps him back home, and the clients that were in the doctor’s wife. Blindness is an obvious metaphor for our teresting song to date, “Oversure”, and doctor’s waiting room have all been thrust into a world of limitations – limitations that run so deep and make us so her oddest but easiest with which to white vision. This is the beginning of a mass epidemic that fragile that a whole society could stop functioning with sing along, “Zombie”. However, the hits a whole city with the exception of the doctor’s wife, one man waiting for a traffic light to change. Beyond that, who curiously never loses her vision. the reader can develop their own interpretations of the al- album’s stand out track, in my opin- The doctor’s wife is the eyes of the story, the pillar at the legory. ion, is the paranoid “Identity Theft”. center of a crumbling ruin, and she alone understands the Blindness is a graphic, unforgettable tale of the break- Here, the songwriter’s wordplay can gravity of everything that’s taking place even as she is ter- down of a society and the people in it. It is shocking, dis- rified of losing her sight. When the blind are quarantined turbing, and possibly hopeful. In moments of complete be seen at its best: “Shun violence and she recognizes their new environment as a mental asylum. vulnerability, people act with moving generosity and quiet religion./ Don’t ever play with nuns./ Without sight there is little need or means to take care of tenderness for each other. They are also capable of acting But I punched a man on Broadway/ hygiene, and as social conditioning quickly falls away the with the appalling inhumanity that can, and does exist in doctor’s wife demonstrates extreme tenderness and gen- the world. This duality in the human capacity seems to be just to watch him cry./ Every guy I erosity towards the frail people around her whose dignity Saramago’s fundamental message: underneath all of our went to try said/ I fight him but can’t and spirituality are crumbling pathetically. The increased circumstances and years of societal training, our most ba- think why.” number of people entering the asylum multiplies the rate sic human impulses and desires can uncover a humanity and degree of atrocities committed. Through theft, rape, that is both horrific and beautiful. and a savagely assumed dictatorship, the doctor’s wife is 18 Antiochians Abroad

and has certainly Postcard from Co-Op contributed to- wards Bagamoyo’s In Bagamoyo UN designation as a world heritage site. The place as a well-trodden, By Paige Clifton-Steele field trip-friendly feel. A small hut n the ancient town of Bagamoyo, houses the tour di- point from where Speke, Livingstone, rector, and nearby Burton, Grant, and Henry Stanton Morley is a little lean-to beganI their explorations in East Africa, the old filled with standard street by the seaside has the same ornamented objets d’art—the character of Zanzibari alleys—the thickset gleaming ebony doors are in the Arab style, carved frames set sculptures of wom- deep in the chapped whitewash of the walls. en with pointed breasts, the coco- (You can’t tell your wishes, though!) nut-shell doodads, and even a few decorative mbozi-naze--coconut goat-: a little blade at- tached to a little bench, on which one sits for “I meditate on the absurdity of leverage while grating a coconut. the colonists, who first impressed The tour guide leads his sole charge around the ruins: the women’s prayer room, the men’s, these pieces of metal with value stepping easily across the ruins of the founda- hundreds of years ago and now tion from one room into the next---rooms that were divided by walls, rooms in which, had return as tourists, eager to buy you lived there, you would in your life have back what their ancestors im- Paige Clifton-Steele, 2nd year, is co-oping in seen only the inside of one, or the other. posed on the people of Baga- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Or, had you been a slave, you would have seen neither; Bagamoyo’s fortunes rose and moyo.” fell with the slave trade in East Africa; some of Meters away, beached dhows lean the shadows those guidebooks tell me that the name Baga- Bagamoyo is an architectural palimpsest; of their masts over the fruit vendors’ stalls. And moyo means “throw down your heart”--the cry in addition to the ruins, in the heart of town a just across the water, twenty or thirty miles out of despair of the newly arrived slave. But since short walk can take you past a German Boma to sea, is Zanzibar itself... when have slaves ever named the slave trading (the Germans were the second outsiders, af- post? ter the Arabs, to set up shop in Tanzania), the “I’ve long since lapsed from the I see also the elaborate graves of children, Catholic Mission of 1856, newer structures infants, a husband and wife. Embedded in the built by the British colonists, an old German habit of bottled water in Tanza- headstones above the buried are the fragment- customs house of a few hundred years ago that nia, and have taken a reckless ed remains of Chinese porcelain dishes used seems to be in greater disrepair even than the purely as decoration in the tomb. ALl the walls Kaole ruins. In a carven doorway, I notice the pleasure in drinking from in- are made of slabs of gray coral; only the roofs, pattern of a chain among the other designs. A creasingly dubious sources.” originally made of mangrove withes, have dis- man on the street says that it was inspired by integrated, but the mangroves themselves are the slave chains... For about a dollar, a young man with a mo- only meters away at the sea’s edge, still grow- On my way back toward town square, I am torcycle agrees to take me out to the outskirts ing as they did when the residents cut them for approached by a young man selling old colo- into the hamlet of Kaole—site of the oldest roofing or to burn for lime. The crocodiles that nial coins—some German, some British, and mosque on the Eastern Coast of Africa. I hitch used to move among them are now confined to some in an unfamiliar Arab stamp. When I ask, up my skirt and hop on, sidesaddle, for the ride a few crocodile near this place. he tells me how Bagamoyo farmers every year up the dirt road to the ruins. Finally he leads me to a well whose water has turn the coins up when they plow the soil. I Three of the four explorers who came through flowed since the thirteenth century. He drops meditate on the absurdity of the colonists, who Bagamoyo mention Kaole, but none of them the bucket and pull up about a liter of fresh wa- first impressed these pieces of metal with val- mentions the thirteenth-century ruins, preoc- ter, from which I drink. I’ve long since lapsed ue hundreds of years ago and now return as cupied as they were with listing their goods from the habit of bottled water in Tanzania, tourists, eager to buy back what their ancestors and hiring their porters. But the ruins haven’t and have taken a reckless pleasure in drinking imposed on the people of Bagamoyo. been neglected by more recent explorers from increasingly dubious sources. though: Kaole features in every guidebook, The tour guide invites me to make a wish.

19 Lust With Levi Oh those Sex-Crazed Antiochians! Antioch’s tendency toward “sex positiv- To make love without hesitation or reser- ity” and sexual openness is the subject of vation wherever and whenever love must some scrutiny, especially among our more be made. To question and challenge the conservative friends in the media and else- status quo, what came before me, the where. People even claim, from time to wisdom of my fathers and mothers, the time, that it is not a true Antiochian value, laws of my state and nation and family. as our values are open inquiry, respect, To answer every question I have: Does it and intellectual freedom. Ironically, how- work? Will it hurt? Can I do it? What will ever, sex positivity is about as Antiochian happen? To create life when and where I as a person can get. Let me illuminate choose and not submit my body and life some of the underpinnings of having a sex to the exploitations of long-accepted and positive mindset. Sex positivity requires a rarely questioned social norms. To judge great acquisition of knowledge and wis- myself and find myself worthy of my own dom. One is supposed to learn as much as wants and the deepest pleasures in life. To possible about sex (through reading books revel in my own beauty, my own passion. and articles, talking to peers and experts, To light flames of passion and keep them taking classes, etc.) as an interdisciplin- burning – to light the dark, to illuminate ary subject – components biological and tion that’s been handed to us, including the possibilities, to keep me warm, to keep medical, emotional and psychological, what sex should look like, when and me alive. To relax. To persist. To work to- creative and skill-based, interpersonal where it should happen, who we should ward a goal with precision and focus. To and intrapersonal, political. Based on all and shouldn’t love, when and where we stop and revel in the bliss of the moment of that acquired knowledge and wisdom, can talk about sex and what we should without worrying about future or past. then, one is equipped to make informed say, who bears the responsibility for To understand and sensitively handle the decisions about their own sex life. It’s al- safety, communication, healing. We talk future, and especially the past. To make most like taking classroom learning into about it, we turn it inside out. We refuse myself vulnerable and honest with oth- the real world. Co-op, perhaps? Another to be complicit in something we haven’t ers. To judge not. To understand that there assumption of sex positivity is that individ- first analyzed and reworked and come to are many paths to enlightenment. To take uals have the right to practice agency over understand in our own way. We throw out risks. To risk everything. To trust. To close their own bodies and sexual selves. Ev- the rule book when we find it just doesn’t my eyes and take a leap of faith. To open ery person has a right to ask for what they make sense anymore. We are not passive my eyes in the free fall. To find common want, to say yes to the things that cause receivers of information. We struggle and ground without compromising myself. To them joy and fulfillment, and to refuse to we question and we quest learn and know as much as I can. To make comply with the requests or demands of my own choices grounded in everything others when their safety is threatened or I know. To move gently and give gener- when the timing just isn’t right. People “To win with every thing I ously. To listen and to speak. To laugh. To are encouraged to know themselves and shout. To be unapologetically young. To to be their own best advocates. Sex posi- have: brain, heart, throat, be different. To find community and com- tivity also asks that people be sensitive words, breath, lips, teeth, munion. To pursue spirit and flesh and mo- to the needs and experiences of others. ments that transcend - moments that tear One should know their partner’s wants hands, legs, courage.” me from or force me toward some sense and needs and boundaries and concerns. of truth, of existence. To win with every In order to do this, one must be able to thing I have: brain, heart, throat, words, communicate clearly and sensitively. One I wrote a reflection on the connection be- breath, lips, teeth, hands, legs, courage. must seek to understand and to be under- tween my sexual self and my Antiochian To make myself clear in my words and ac- stood. Most importantly, the slogan of sex self. It’s perhaps a bit over-the-top, but in tions, my requests, acceptances, refusals. positivity is: Don’t yuck somebody else’s this time when everything is uncertain To have agency over my life and body and yum. In short: don’t judge. Everyone de- and we need to find the best in ourselves, soul and sexuality. To pursue freedom and serves to have their interests respected, so I thought something a little out of the or- individual choice. To refuse to let anyone we must practice that respect constantly. dinary might help. It’s called: else define the how or the why. To bravely On a slightly more, shall we say, and fiercely demand the ability to pursue radical note, talking about sex, especially my bliss, my contentment, my own way. the way we talk about it at Antioch, em- (As a lover and an activist and an activist) To do it better every time. bodies young progressive activism. We I want… 16 question and challenge every assump- 20 Memorabilia

What kind of music got your head bobbing They Too Were Once Young back then? Dark Side of the Moon by the Pink Floyd, John Every week, an Antioch faculty member remembers their college years Lennon’s Mind Games, Black Sabbath had By James Thomas Robertson the Ninth just come out with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, What year was it when you were 20? Queen just came out with their debut album. 1973 I could just keep listing them, but I did have Where were you and what were you doing? some staples that always were constantly on I was attending Kent State University studying my turn table. English with an education minor. I also took What would you do for fun on a Saturday or several psychology courses. Friday night? What did you want for your future? Well I can remember what I did on Saturday I thought I wanted to be a public school teach- nights because of Saturday Night Live. I have er. always been a 50’s and early 60’s science fic- What books sparked your interest then? tion monster movie fan. There was a late night One book that immediately comes to mind is monster movie showing originally on Friday “Stranger in a Strange Land,” also “The Exor- nights, but then moved to Saturdays. I usually cist” had just come out so that was a fun read. watched that, but I did hangout with friends a Then for some of my English classes I had to lot, and it was usually just hanging out because read Orestes Brownson, and don’t ask me why, we didn’t have very deep pockets. but I ended up reading a lot of his work. What kind of student were you? What was going on politically at the time? I got good grades but I was not a great student. Susan J. Eklund-Leen Well the Vietnam War had ended, and the I think I was uninterested. I went to a state uni- Associate Professor of Cooperative POW had started returning home. We had a versity and I have a twin sister, so having two huge energy crisis with an oil embargo, and kids in college definitely helped us make our Education gas prices doubled. Watergate was constantly decisions. I chose the wrong things to study, I in the news. should have explored a little more, but I picked something I felt was secure.

very health concious and was also a peer counselor. Chris- Pillow Talk at tian was high-strung, caus- tic, and, as befits a Record Antioch editor, sucked down at least Amorous Alumni tell their tale 4 Jolt Colas a day. People did think it was an odd pair- By Christian Feuerstein and Michael Heffernan ing. However, Michael has a We met when Michael was a prospective stu- deep well of confidence and dent and Christian was working the overnight a way of getting straight to shift dispatching for Maples. Michael was up the heart of any matter; and at 3 a.m. and looking for someone to talk to; Christian always had a mas- Christian was the only sober and/or coherent ter plan and the energy to person on campus. We chatted for about an back it up. hour. Neither of us remembered that until much, After a solid year of hang- much later. Come fall of 1991, Michael strode ing out together, Christian into the cafeteria; Christian, sitting at a lunch graduated and Michael went table, turned to her friend Heather and imme- on co-op in the Netherlands. diately squawked, “Who the hell is THAT? I Adrift, Christian stayed in want me a piece of that!” Heather almost died Yellow Springs for the sum- Christian Feuerstein ‘94 and Michael Heffernan ‘96 seven deaths when Michael came over and sat mer. She went over to visit down; Christian immediately started trying to Michael in Holland, but as moved to northern Maine; today we live in make him laugh. She succeeded. We still live a friend. It wasn’t until October of 1994 that Baltimore and are both on the Alumni Board, to make each other laugh. we finally blurted that we loved each other. as well as starting our own small book publish- Things really didn’t get going for us, though, Christian remembers practically floating from ing company. We’ve been married for six years until Fall of 1993; we had been on different co- Michael’s dorm room in Mills to her apartment come October 20th. We’re both working our op terms, although Christian kept daydream- in Corry Street, screaming out, “HE LOVES asses off to keep the College open because it’s ing about Michael. We hooked up practically ME!” to whomever she recognized. “HE gifted us with so much--not the least of which, at registration. LOVES ME! HE DOES!” each other. At the time, Michael was known for being We quickly moved in together, and then 21 To you across the way, got here--have faith honey, you light up my in our 1st years. life. -Rhymenocerous Ben B, you’re pretty Vegan Recipe Oh Antioch! What would Bette (Taylor), you’re neat. DeclassifiedsI do without you? the wind beneath my of the Week wings. love, Barbara Loftin, you are won- By Sally Bell Alper Get’em Get’em Get’m... derful, you help me Antioch Keep your finger gather the pieces of crossed Antioch! my leaves. Simple Tofu Scrambler Niko Let’s go play! [heart] -me B.F.- thanks for the Dear Alligator, you This dish can be made a million hoodie back! are pretty. We should Hey stripes-I’m still go on a date and maybe different ways but here is a recipe loving the consistent Emily & Shea, splash some puddles. to get you started. wardrobe you definite- you’re both making me Love, Smash ly don’t deserve the really happy. Ingredients: pain. Franchised Antioch -The [heart] concept Leslie, last night was One billion campuses amazing. Those bruis- then 1 package of medium or firm tofu ANTIOCH! es aren’t going any- Oh the seventies 1 medium diced onion KEEP ON LOVING where... Kind of hard 1 medium diced tomato KEEP ON FIGHTING!!! to walk, so thanx. Baby lungs, let’s fuck 1 handful of sliced mushrooms [heart] Gina P [heart] the system together! 1 large handful of chopped spin- Hey Stacy, you’re Tiffany Arin Tiffany cool. -Maite Gina- I’ll never for- ach get our climax on Fri- Jessica-the boy sit- 3 cloves of minced Garlic I wanted to hurt you day- Snap! ting across from you Olive Oil but I killed you. What was way cute! munition should I have To all my dear Antio- used? chians: As much as I Kip & Corry, you guys Spices: [From the Editor: The love seeing you in are awesome. Thanks Record declines any class everyday, sleep for driving here every Chopped Green Onions responsibility for any is also important. So, day! [heart] Eva 1-2 tsp Nutritional Yeast casualties due to the rather than sleeping 1 tsp Curry Powder lack of expertise en- through class and be- Dear Ruffi-Roomie, gendered by the non- ing distracting/rude, You are an incredibly ½ tsp Turmeric publication of muni- stay home. Thanks considerate, easy-go- Salt and Pepper tion of the week] loves! ing and intelligent human being and I am Use frying pan or cast iron skillet To the girl across Hooray for naked party so glad to have you on medium heat. Start with the the hall, I LOVE YOU! on the lawn! Much bet- as my roommate. The [heart] -the girl w/ ter than stoop party laughs and conversa- onions allowing them to become the lobster with clothes... tion are deeply-just translucent. Followed by the gar- thought you should lic and other veggies in order of Knock’em. Truth. Stand stall. No ver- know. Much love, Yuko how well done you enjoy them. dict shall halt prog- Crumble the tofu until it resem- Boooreing. -Rhymenoc- ress. Dear Kelsey Thanks for erous bein awsome Thanks for bles bleached scrambled eggs, Antioch students, being funny Thanks for then add to the pan. Add Spices To whoever posted the faculty, and staff, I being French to the pan and sauté for 5 to 10 Terry Pratchett quote love you. minutes. last week: you rock, When I said you made keep’em coming Meghan & Rory just a me the happiest girl reminder; I love you. in the world I meant Eat on toast or with potatoes, also Kim+Jeanne- -Nicole it and would at 400 try adding salsa or avocado for [heart] [heart] and bald. Be happy, added flavor. [heart] Dear Maintenance, McG don’t regret it. You 113 needs WD-40. The deserve to be happy Want to share a Vegan Recipe? Hey Michael, Michael squeeking=not so cool. and I look forward to and Shauna, I love all exploring all that a Email me at salper@antioch-col- of you. Thanks for be- I [heart] people who noumenal reality can lege.edu ing amazing this past are nice... offer <3 weekend, couldn’t have done without you! Hug a firstyear Trustees, maybe it’s [heart] Emma Lots of people had a time for your Victory hard time dealing with this weekend...don’t 18 Hi beautiful... their shit when they miss your chance. 22 Question of the Week With James Tommy Robertson the Ninth Horoscopes and the entering class of 2006 by Marysia Walcerz How will you disguise the toxicity on campus for the media this weekend? Birthday - love will come your way this week in the form of a six pound bucket of delicious strawberry Twizzlers. Aries - Try walking in someone else’s shoes this week. at the very “Xanax” least you’ll finally be allowed to go in the caf. Carobot, 2nd Year Taurus - Being sick may be miserable, but at least you now know the joy of inflicting your pain on a wider range of people than you ever thought possible, thanks to recent developments in chemical warfare. Gemini - all of your childhood heroes will let you down this week in what the newspapers will call “a Tragic act of auto-erotic “I will take my Howard asphyxiation Gone Horribly Wrong.” Particularly safer-sex Man. Stern mask off” Cancer - you’ll gain fame and fortune in the medical world when Greer, 2nd Year you’re diagnosed with never-before-seen cancer of the puppy this week. Leo - The stars foresee hilarity in your future. it’s of not the “laughing with you” variety. Virgo - although you may think you hear your guitar is gently “Elaborate disguises weeping, to the rest of the world it sounds more like prolonged, and agonized screaming. lots of Cheetos” Libra - in the grand scheme of the universe, this week will turn out Shea, 2nd Year exactly like the one before it: completely insignificant. Scorpio - expressing yourself has never been easy for you, but hiring that interpretive dance troupe to follow you around probably isn’t going to help matters as much as you’d think. “I will hold my direct Sagittarius - Probe deep into your friends minds this week. The action training/ bomb damn thing cost enough on that medical supply site, and you hardly making seminar on ever use it. main lawn” Capricorn - you’ll regret your actions this weekend, although the Jessica, 2nd Year stars aren’t sure exactly which ones. say 90% of the ones that seem like a really good idea at the time. Aquarius - attempt something you’ve never tried before this week. The look of abject horror on your friend’s faces alone will be worth it. “Wear a body condom” Erik, 2nd Year Pisces - you’ll become incurably depressed this week when you realize all the other signs have friends or at least people paying attention to them in their horoscopes.

“Act straight” Mariel 2nd year by heart, All horoscopes are guaranteed accurate to the fullest extent of the law. If you feel your horoscope is in error, please contact Mish in Mills 219 for a 4th Year by credit full refund. 19 23 From the Archives...

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