So, lovely Nonstop staff, what’s your Genderfuck costume idea?

Carole, Joan, Joyce and Nancy

Carole- Urkel, except I don’t have a really suave alter ego like he did.

Joan- I’d be Pat from SNL

Joyce- Dolly Parton.

Meghan- An androgynous love doll.

Chelsea- One time I was femme. That was pretty funny.

8th week and it’s related crises have passed. What was your coping mechanism of choice?

Molly B:

Puzzles and wine in my underwear.

Kelly Irons:

Chuck Palahniuk and other sources of dark humor.

Katie:

Run away to Chicago. Just kidding…

Nic:

Beer.

Rose:

Kittens.

Shea Witzo:

Flirting and caffeine.

Jeanne:

Ellen Borgersen’s bribes kept me going.

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 reached alumni revolved around the question of Toxic Culture–whether there was one, how it manifested itself, how to fix it or how to debunk its myth.

To alumni whose only contact with the community in years had been filtered through Media and University intermediaries, “toxic culture” meant a steady decline in academic excellence and increased political narrowness from their time at Antioch onwards; to conservative reporters, “toxic culture” came to be the perfect excuse to write diatribes against political correctness at liberal arts colleges; and to many observers “toxic culture” was a perfect shortcut to explaining how Antioch College had found itself in such an incomprehensibly dire situation: Antioch students were narrow-minded, unstable, out of control–they chased away new students, driving down retention and preventing Antioch from achieving financial stability. The toxic culture narrative made sense–and it was useful.

In planning for the next year of Nonstop, we all have a lot of hard questions to ask ourselves. Like why haven’t we had a mascot this whole time and what should it be?

Jeanne: A pink phoenix (with piercings) building a plane while flying it and while reading Foucault’s “power, gender and aerodynamics”

Chelsea: Xena, Warrior Princess

Gerry: A badger.

Shea: Cicada swarm. They live underground, come out in increments of prime numbered years to avoid the life cycles of their predators, and use the power of choral singing as defense. I love cicadas.

Molly: Chartreuse Buzzards

Lincoln: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

Rose: Cicadas and Moths of Ohio. We are a metamorphosis, like the phoenix.

Eva: an anti-ochtopus.

In This Issue…

• Nonstop Nomadic Again

• Barbara Winslow: Board Pro Tempore Member of the Week

• An Open Letter to the ProTem Board of Trustees

• “We’re here to learn:” ProTem Board Delegation Visits Nonstop

• Introducing: Spring 2009 IGs and Community Centers

• Nonstop Opening Snapshots

• COPAS Gives Community Intentional Focus

• Main Building Floods, Community Protests

• Declassifieds

• Question of the Week