THE ANTIOCH RECORD

A Week with the Maasai

African Time, like Antioch Time, is an elusive force that moves all appointments back by anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour. So Sarah and I are not surprised when we are asked to wait for twenty minutes in the back of the truck that is to take us out to the rural secondary school [...]

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College suspension creates Co-op quandry

Limited opening hours at the library, closed administrative buildings and overall “continental” meals at the caf stand out among the direct results of the downscaling of operations at Antioch College following the announcement that the school would close by June 2008. Less prominent in current community discussion, the co-op office too is taking hits that [...]

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Postcard from Co-Op

The date of departure draws near, and my passport, for which I applied three months in advance, fails to arrive. Calling the Department of State only lands me in voicejail. I pester my local congressman, whose kindly-sounding office ladies assure me that they’re writing stern words on my behalf. Listening to them, I imagine a [...]

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Letters – Beca and Tim on Coop in Santa Fe

Dear Antioch Community, This is a letter to everyone from Beca and Tim. We have both recently returned from the New Mexico Co-op “Community”. Two of our classmates are being expelled for events that occurred throughout this co-op “community” experience. As we were both present throughout this entire ordeal and had a close connection with [...]

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Power Chords and Blast-Beats Pound the Walls of the Union

By the CCNWSS (Jeremie Jordan) About eight years ago Reversal of Man proclaimed that “internet and indie-rock are killing hard-core.” Certainly Dayton’s own once prolific extreme music scene has since reached a very stark low. With punk rock bars and venues closing their doors, all-ages shows practically ceasing, veteran hipsters moving away or settling down, [...]

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