Month: August 2007

College Faculty file law suit against BOT

“I feel stupid for not having seen this coming”, exclaims Lynda White, class of ‘88, “It frightens me that this is the way they are going to handle everything now: a big quagmire and not telling us anything. I’m very upset”.

It is 8:10 PM Eastern Time, and the alumni that have gathered in a small East Village theatre to watch the Board of Trustees’ Q&A broadcast are upset indeed. Antioch University Chancellor Toni Murdock just announced the cancellation of the event. The official reason? Antioch College faculty have just filed a permanent injunction against the BOT. “We are now unable to comment on the lawsuit or its subject matter” declared Murdock.

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Present at the Rise

A deserted Antioch College campus came alive with the arrival of over 600 alumni, spanning seven decades. The unruly group came by plane, car, boat and foot to make the historic Alumni Reunion 2007, largely in response to the announcement of the closure of the College. Dorms and Springs Motel brimming, some alumni pitched their tents on the empty Presidents’ lot and the golf course in true Antioch fashion.

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When the arts were liberal enough

By Jeanne Kay

What went wrong with Antioch? Autopsies and Obituaries have multiplied in the Media in the last two months. In order to see who was behind one of the most debated of these opinion pieces, The Record went to a London pub to meet Michael Goldfarb, author of the New York Times Op/Ed “Where the arts were too liberal” Continue reading When the arts were liberal enough

One String at a time: YS Townies react to Antioch closing

Banner on the Emporium, Yellow Springs, OH. Photo by Migiwa OrimoBy Jonathan Platt

The assassination of JFK, the Challenger disaster, the attack on the World Trade Center… These are all events for which people remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the news. On a much smaller scale, most villagers of Yellow Springs knew exactly what they were doing and where they were doing it when they received the news of Antioch’s closing. Continue reading One String at a time: YS Townies react to Antioch closing

Taking the SOPP to Bed

Levi B. CowperthwaiteBy Levi B. Cowperthwaite

The first time my sweetheart and I shared a dance was during a party in the romance-inspiring Dance Space. The music was blaring, the bodies were sweaty and spinning, and my now-sweetheart and I were dancing with a respectable, torturous distance between us when she leaned in close and whispered in my ear, “Can I grind with you?” My libido’s response?: Oh. Hell. Yes. We didn’t start dating until almost a year later, and she was actually probably yelling (rather than whispering) to be heard over the music, but it was such a sexy, sweet moment (and satisfying dance), that when I think of it today, I feel everything I was feeling in that moment: sexy, desirable, giddy, hot.

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