THE ANTIOCH RECORD

Economics

Molly Thornton ’10 wrote this essay for Hassan Rahmanian and Colette Palamar’s Community Economics and Environmental Sustainability Class in Fall 2008. She comments on Mc Kibben’s concept of “Deep Economy,” which “suggests solutions to the current errors of the failing free trade capitalist system by calling attention to the ecological and social factors limiting its [...]

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Literature

LIT 258: Travel Writing and Memoir, Spring 2009, Jean Gregorek This was an informal writing assignment in which all members of the class addressed two required texts dealing with the phenomenon of middle-class investigators of the lives of transients: George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933); and Ben Reitman, Sisters of the [...]

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“This is remarkable,” Op/Ed by Tony Dallas

Having watched Antiochians over the past fifty years, it has been my experience that while Antioch has gotten smaller–as a direct and indirect result of the ’73 Strike, the 25% cuts in faculty the year after (financial desperation has never worked as a recruiting tool), lingering on the edge of bankruptcy and oblivion, presidents who [...]

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Beehive Collective Pollinates Community Day

A tiny swarm descended upon Yellow Springs on Nonstop’s Community Day, on March 25th. The bees, as they call themselves, are members of the Beehive Collective, a political media-arts collective based out of Maine. Their mission is to “cross-pollinate the grassroots,” touring their large-scale graphic campaigns that intricately weave together the environmental and social aspects [...]

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Alumni Interview: Gerry Bello, ’97

Thursday, March 5th, in Gerry’s car. What did you do after you left Yellow Springs? After I left Yellow Springs [...] I went to work for Anti-Racist Action, in Columbus. [...] What did you guys do there? We were and are (I’m still involved with the organization, I just don’t work there full-time. We don’t [...]

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