Author: Record Editors

Dispatches from Community Meeting

By Billy Joyce

At approximately 4:30 p.m. on Tues., Dec. 4th, Community Meeting went into hibernation. McGregor 113 bought speed from a 1st year to gear up for the video/film show, but it had dreams of rubbing its feet together and shuttering its woody doors for a long winter’s nap. Candy and cookies adorned the long cresting tables and troubadours gave tidings of cheer. It was a celebration. But to the crowds gathered in community it seemed like everyone was holding their breath, anticipating a cultured confrontation and a big-ugly, yet necessary Pulse.

At 4:15 p.m., and after the crowd had thinned down to less than half who had been there at the start, Dr. Dana Patterson, the director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom read a statement addressing the now infamous events that had transpired in North last week. The statement condemned racism and deemed the events as being perceived as racist by unnamed individuals. Perhaps that statement can make it through the Antioch channels and into the hands of Record editors or onto Pulse/Announcements/Antiochians.org. Continue reading Dispatches from Community Meeting

Bootcamp for the Non-Recruitment

Students, Alumni Take Admissions 101

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

There were no board games or TV in the C-shop on Monday night. Instead there were Powerpoint slides and scribbling pens, as the newly formed student recruitment group met for a second time, this time to familiarize themselves with the ins and outs of the admissions funnel.

“We want to send out a message that Antioch is still alive and they should check it out,” says Marysia Walcerz, one of the students behind the project to get the community directly involved in the admissions project. “Since we can’t as a college officially recruit yet, we try to bring students and alumni into the process of attracting new students.” Continue reading Bootcamp for the Non-Recruitment

DeClassifieds

Declassifieds

Thank the Gods that this blasted semester is almost over! Let the revelry commence!

Dela, I adore you. Thank you for making my term so wonderful. xo -niko

“Poopularity Planner” and “Gorilla recruitment” are less funny when they seem when you’re wasted

Nicole, I love you I’m glad you’re here. I’m sorry about the shit that went down this weekend

I found your sock 🙂

Kelsey, this place won’t be the same without you 🙁 Emma

To whoever called North Friday Night saying “reverse racism doesn’t exist” this is no way to win an argument. It only puts the people’s backs up, and makes an agreement less likely -Lincoln Continue reading DeClassifieds

Announcements

Do you have a contact with an organization that works primarily with youth? If so, you’re helpful to the admissions and recruitment process!!

We’re looking for students who have worked with organizations who could help us network to spread the word that Antioch is open and draw attention to the kind of students we want at Antioch.  For example, I worked with GLSEN – the gay, lesbian, straight education network in high school and could help get the word out to gay/straight alliances about Antioch College.

If you have any type of connection, we’ll help you with the work that needs to happen to make them an ally of Antioch!

Just send me an email or call/stop by the office,
Chelsea Martens
Community Manager
Antioch College
795 Livermore St.
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
cmartens@antioch-college.edu
937-769-1050
TO ALL CHICAGO AREA STUDENTS
The Chicago Chapter of the Antioch College Alumni Association invites you and your parents  to an open house and
you for an admissions workshop during winter break.
The alums in the Chicago area really want to connect with you, listen to your concerns, and to work with you to help move the College forward.  We are out here working hard to secure your future at Antioch and care very much about your welfare!
Please call or e-mail:    Kathy Huff, Chapter Organizer, as soon as possible for details at
(773) 241-7141 or kathy@rogerhuff.com

Are you going to an event or conference in the next couple of months?

Take admissions material with you and spread the word about Antioch! We have a form letter you can use to ask for permission at these events, if you’d like.

Contact CG for more information

Senior Project

I began working on The Rising when I was traveling in Eastern Europe. Originally the idea was to write a series of songs about war, but almost everything I was coming up with felt contrived and irrelevant. It was so frustrating that I almost gave the whole thing up, but then I got to Poland.

I had several very intense and important things happen to me while I was in Poland and they defined my focus from then on. I began reading about the Nazi genocide, Jewish resistance, and Jewish culture. In a bookshop in Kazimierz, the Jewish neighborhood in Krakow, I picked up “Survival in Auschwitz” by Primo Levi, “Words to Outlive Us” about the Warsaw Ghetto and the uprising that took place there, “A Hole in the Heart of the World: The Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe After WWII,” “Smoke Over Birkenau,” and a book of stories of Jewish Mystics throughout the centuries.

I began to write. I had some words and guitar parts at first, then gradually the songs came together. I wanted them to be for a band so I wrote for electric guitar, bass, and drums.

When I was 17 or 18 I saw a video recording of Metallica playing with the San Francisco Symphony. Since then I’ve wanted to orchestrate songs. I figured my Senior project was a good time to do just that. Continue reading Senior Project