Month: September 2007

Historian Paul Cook speaks at CSKC

“Youth change the world,” proclaimed Paul Cook, historian and author of “Segregation in Ohio”, “because youth are more inclined to take risks since they feel there is nothing to lose.”  Cook, the guest speaker at the Coretta Scott King Center’s Tuesday night gathering, sponsored in part by the ACLU, described how youth became a major catalyst for global and civil rights awareness and change.
Cook spoke about the ways in which youth participated in groundbreaking direct action. Youth played strong roles in the Montgomery bus boycott, the sit-ins at Wolworth’s and other white-only facilities, voter registrations, and the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.  Each of these events as well as the totality of their revolutionary progress ignited people across the nation to stand up against their fears.
A brief question and answer session followed Cook’s lecture. Unfortunately, few students attended this event. Instead several alumni and foreigners to Antioch’s familiar bubble were present. Yet Cook still encourages us in the words of Franz Fanon: “Every generation has its mission, and we have to decide whether to accept or reject it.”

From The Editors

Kim-Jenna Jurriaans and Jeanne KayReclaim

Last monday I witnessed what I had been missing for months: engaged Antioch students.
After weeks of bitchin’ and moaning about the lack of student involvement in al things revival, I saw 70 students coming together behind the student union organizing in ways that made it clear we are on the verge of something big.

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Collaboration Kitchen

Shea Witzberger on behalf of Creation, Collaboration, and Performance.
There is so much inspiring creation and collaboration happening on campus this term, and even if individually we aren’t yet in a primarily participatory role, each of us could learn a lot from what’s happening here on the ground. There is a group that is forming as part of a class, part of a grant, and part of a larger project that wants to listen and to collaborate and create with and within this community.
Under the theater department and with a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, the Creation, Collaboration, and Performance class was created to collaborate with the Yellow Springs/Antioch Community in creating work that addresses the current situation at Antioch College and the intersecting concerns of the Village and the College. This is a continuation of the Listening Project that was created last year. The base of the work will be listening, and unlike some community action theater, we are attempting to break the notion of coming from above to create art about You, whoever You may be. We are each a part of this community, and want to be engaged in the process of listening, collaborating, and acting to Save Antioch as a participatory force from this community.
The Creation, Collaboration, and Performance class has many partnerships in the works already. Migiwa Orimo, local mixed-media artist and Yellow Springs resident, will become an Artist in Residence in October. In addition to her help, we are working with Don Wallis from Yellow Springs, Beth Holyoke of the Yellow Springs Arts Council, Jill Becker from our own Dance Department, Chris Hill in Communications, CG, The Record, and several other groups and persons.
We will be cooking up a lot of great projects, events, and ideas, but we want it to be appetizing and satisfying for this community. We need to know what you like and what you are allergic to, so to speak. We hope to be a sounding board. We hope that our listening will become fuel for more talking. We hope to break out of spectator-vs.-performer theater and contribute artistically to events and activities on and off campus in an open, collaborative way. We hope to continue to strengthen connections between students of the College and villagers of Yellow Springs.
After this introductory article, each week’s Collaborate article will focus on ideas and events happening here. Stay tuned for more information, events, and musings.

Greening Committee

On this Sunday, Antioch mugs were given to Students for free in the Caf, as one attempt to review college environmentalism. “Ten thousand paper cups are wasted in vain per month. We must not throw away them any more,” said Jake Stockwell, a member of the Campus Greening Committee. “If most students use this mug, it will prevent many paper cups from being wasted.”
The Campus Greening Committee has meetings which take place in Antioch Inn behind the Caf from 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm on every Wednesday. The committee consists mostly of students who attempt to keep Antioch College clean. Of course, anyone who is interested in environmental problems or wishes to join the activities can participate in the meetings.
The community is elaborating various projects for this term. First, they are revitalizing campus recycling with a new recycling coordination system. Next, they are increasing environmental awareness on campus. Third, they are examining Sontag Fels Building. The Campus Greening Committee places notices in our dooms and halls, which urge people to turn off lights and conserve energy in our dooms and halls.
“First, please come to the meeting of the Campus Greening Committee in order to know how to protect our environment. Also please contribute to our campus by putting rubbish into garbage cans and picking up trash on the ground. “ Jake said. “The most important thing is more an accumulation of effects to keep our environment clean than a particular action.”