By Erin-Aja Grant

This past weekend Antioch was alive with visitors. They were alums, town members, and the Antioch community’s first glance at the newest abbreviated in-group. The AC3, or ACCC, or Atrip, is officially named the Antioch College Continuation Corporation. This all-star alum group came to Antioch hoping to gain a community perspective on the College’s current situation. Students, faculty, and staff were provided the opportunity to interact with the ACCC Saturday in smaller groups. The AC3 members are: Frances Horowitz ‘54 (co-chair), Eric Bates ‘83 (co-chair), Laura Markham ‘80 (secretary), David Goodman ‘72 (treasurer), Steve Schwerner ’60, Catherine Jordan ’69, Lee Morgan ’69, Barbara Winslow ’68, and Terry Herndon ’57. Some of these people are familiar faces from the Alumni Board and some of them are just outright familiar names. There was no doubt that as Antioch Alums each member feels a responsibility and nostalgic love for the school, but the community still had its questions.

After breakfast planning, the day kicked off at 10am with a community meeting. It started with Andrzej Bloch, who made a few brief remarks concerning the recient power outage on campus. The meeting proceeded with an introduction by the ACCC members, and a brief presentation on the new corporation. McGregor 113 was packed with Yellow Springs residents, faculty, staff, and students. Many people said during the meeting, and after, that they were confused by the presence of Glenn Watts. Watts, the former CFO of the college, stated that he was only there to record the events happening and is no longer affliated with the University or its board.

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

As of yesterday, the Antioch community has one more acronym to add to their daily vocabulary; after two weeks of negotiations with representatives of the University Board of Trustees, on Friday a group of deep-pocket donors and former trustees established the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC), scheduled to take over operations of a fully independent Antioch College by July 2008.

“We have to raise a lot of money in a hurry to make this work, but we believe that we can, now that the goal is in sight,” says Eric Bates ’83, deputy managing editor of Rolling Stone Magazine, former trustee and co-chair of the new corporation.

By Billy Joyce
A year after the MAN collective and the CCR collective created Facebook groups, filed applications, took pictures and put up posters, the community is again under siege.
Before, it was Marjorie Jensen, Anne Fletcher and Niko Kowel and Corri Frohlich, Chelsea Martens, and Rory Adams-Cheatham who stood in front of the community in McGregor 113. On Tues. it was a different group of students who humbly introduced themselves to the community.
The collectives, as they stand now, don’t have catchy nicknames: Jamila Hunter, Meghan Pergrem, Fela Pierrelouis, and for an encore Niko Kowell are running up against Nicole Bayani, Micah Canal, Sarah Buckingham, and Julian Sharp.
The news out of this forum is that each collective running for CG has four candidates. This is abnormal since there are only job descriptions and funding enough for three people. ComCil last week, as reported by CM/OM Corri Frohlich, deliberated for hours to accept the collectives’ proposals for a fourth member.

Antioch College, Celebrating 155 Years of Market Tested Toughness
By Billy Joyce

It’s only just begun. Community Meeting was charged with anger and uncertainty this week. With the decision to lift the suspension of operations obliterating the past and only halfway tracing the future, distrust of the university’s minions and its board of trustees runs high.
University Vice Chancellor and Spokesperson Mary Lou LaPierre jockeyed for Community Member of the Week honors this week by putting a heroic spin on this past weekend’s Board of Trustees decision to lift the suspension of operations.

Recent University budget cuts have the cafeteria facing a serious financial and labor crisis. Cutbacks have caused reduced hours, the elimination of hot breakfast, and problems meeting catering obligations.

Many departments on campus have also experienced budgets cuts due to the declaration of financial exigency of the college, but the cafeteria’s losses have been severe. Since the start of the fiscal year they have lost $100,000 in funding, five part time staff, the cafeteria van and their discretionary fund.

These losses come on top of earlier position cuts, which eliminated FWSP positions, the Assistant Dining Services Manager Greg Frederick and Office Manager Anne Thomasson, and the elimination of the Grab-and-Go lunch program.

The budget reduction has caused a noticeable drop in the quantity of food. People that do not attend meals are subsiding those that do attend. According to Marvin Bohn, Manager of Dining Services, if everyone with a meal plan attended the same meal, the cafeteria would not be able to feed them.

At this time last year, the cafeteria was staffed by over a dozen hourly workers and three management-level employees. Since then, nine of these positions have been eliminated, leaving one manager and seven hourly workers. While the total number of students has dropped slightly, the proportion of students attending meals has remained constant.
Staff cuts have mandated the end of hot breakfast on most weekdays and the occasional lack of staffing at the register. Bohn has been working twelve-hour-days, seven days a week, and has to accommodate staff taking vacation days or calling in sick with no backup.