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Dispatches from Community Meeting

Antioch College, Celebrating 155 Years of Market Tested Toughness
By Billy Joyce

It’s only just begun. Community Meeting was charged with anger and uncertainty this week. With the decision to lift the suspension of operations obliterating the past and only halfway tracing the future, distrust of the university’s minions and its board of trustees runs high.
University Vice Chancellor and Spokesperson Mary Lou LaPierre jockeyed for Community Member of the Week honors this week by putting a heroic spin on this past weekend’s Board of Trustees decision to lift the suspension of operations. Continue reading Dispatches from Community Meeting

$ 1 Million Error in University Budget Goes Unnoticed

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

In its fall report presented to the Board of Trustees this month, University accountants made a $1 million error in the University cash flow projection for the academic year 2007-08. A closer look at the budget shown in the report, available on TheAntiochpapers.org, shows that in the conversion from accrual to cash basis, the University mixed up plus and minus and accounted a University wide deficit of $ 3.430,146. In reality, the University had a projected $ 2,457,508 cash shortage for this year. Continue reading $ 1 Million Error in University Budget Goes Unnoticed

Letter from Steve Mooser ‘72

To Antioch Students,

I am over at a conference in Europe and immersed in the duties of participating in that.  I read the NYTimes dispatch which indicated in part that after the initial euphoria among students last Saturday, there was concern because nothing in the “historic agreement” was firm and permanent about the future of the college.  There are multiple conditions, provisions and questions.
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Letter from Louise Smith, ‘77 Professor of Theater and alumna

“I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
-Blanche Dubois

Since the announcement that we have been given a reprieve from suspension, the theater department has been immersed and focused on the opening of “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams. All term, I have been struck with the resonances between the play and our situation here. It started when John Fleming, the director, put out audition notices in which he crossed out the word ‘Streetcar” and wrote the word “College” so that the poster read “ A College named Desire”.  Continue reading Letter from Louise Smith, ‘77 Professor of Theater and alumna