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Post-Colonial

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

LIT 325: Postcolonial Theory, Fall 2008, Jean Gregorek Jeanne Kay ’2010 is a Postcolonial studies major. This is her take-home exam for a small seminar which focused on Third World Cinema, the Americanization of the Philippines, art and sexuality in Cuba, cultural globalization, and diasporic literature. The essay posits that neoliberal globalization legitimates itself through [...]

Toxic Talk: Steve Lawry’s Culture War

Monday, March 2, 2009

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By Jeanne-Kay Research: Brian Springer, Kathryn Leahey, Jeanne Kay Prelude: The Discourse of Toxicity “Toxic Culture.” Steve Lawry’s infamous phrase is now part of the vocabulary of virtually all Antiochians. The year before the Antioch University Board of Trustees (UBoT) resolved to close the college, the key political issue on campus and the polemic that [...]

See you in Exile

Friday, April 25, 2008

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On a night in January, I was looking at myself in the mirror of my bathroom at 4 a.m. I couldn’t sleep. Everything was theoretically okay though: I was safely escaping the winding down of Antioch, I was being reasonable and attentive to my feelings and health. I had taken a sound decision considering the [...]

Antioch Panel Speaks at Wittenberg

Friday, October 5, 2007

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“In my mind, Antioch has a soul,” mused Antioch College professor Scott Warren to a small audience gathered at Wittenberg University last Wednesday. Community members Jeanne Kay, Scott Warren, Scott Sanders, and Wittenberg professor and Yellow Springs resident Laurie Askland comprised the panel in order to openly discuss the circumstances regarding the closing of Antioch [...]

“They make plans, we make History”

Friday, August 31, 2007

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“Ya basta! It’s enough! Another world is possible!” As I scan the innumerable websites organizing the anti-G8 mobilization, the familiar alterglobalization rallying cries remind me that I am on friendly ground. Yet the somewhat sketchy information about the camps, transportation and events is not easy to fi nd online even when one knows how to [...]