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Referendum Issue #2: Vote in favor of the future of Antioch College as an independent and self-governing institution, no longer under the auspices of Antioch University

Referendum Issue #2:
Vote in favor of the future of Antioch College as an independent and self-governing institution, no longer under the auspices of Antioch University

Antioch College has maintained a proud tradition of educating progressive voices to counter oppression and to create just and sustainable communities for over 155 years. Antiochian leadership has benefited humanity in profound and transformative ways over the past century and a half, and the world needs Antioch now more than ever. Today Antioch College finds itself at the crossroads of its existence. The dedication and leadership shown by the Antioch College Alumni Association over the past few months is a testament to the possibility for institutional change. In order for the College to survive it must break free from University control.
Over the past several years, the University leadership and Board of Trustees have made decisions which have directly and indirectly damaged the College. Antioch University has removed financial decision-making authority from the College, and forced budget cuts which have reduced faculty, support staff, admissions, and development capabilities. The University imposed a “Renewal” curriculum on the College with minimal consultation with the Antioch College community, and then failed to financially support the drastic changes which it had mandated. The results of these poor business decisions have been exacerbated by the disconnected culture of secrecy under which the Board of Trustees and the University operate, culminating in the shocking decision to suspend Antioch College operations in June 2007.
We question the accuracy of the information used by the Board of Trustees to make its decision to suspend College operations in June, and we believe viable solutions to the College’s financial troubles exist. The Alumni Association and College Faculty are developing promising solutions. Options that were not on the table in June of 2007 now seem viable.
Today we, the students, professional educators, and staff members of the Antioch College community, call for our independence from the detrimental governance of Antioch University. We support the formation of an autonomous College Board of Trustees, no longer under the auspices of Antioch University. We intend to continue building a movement that will realize the full potential of our beloved institution.

Declassifieds

Who’s got the drugs WTF

Fuck the Mann,
Not HOrace

Sarah Buckinghorn so majestic & elusive

Myles, you’re so cool 🙂

Caroline Are you ready to date? Many people are waiting.

Darn Cat, No more pity parties! THanks for everything though, including the hoodie. -Broken Fairie

Most Antiochians want to smoke out. Please be more specific when you leave declassifieds 🙂

Salbee-I love sharing 100 pounds of food with you in the middle of the nighgt. -Your Eater

Asia, you have a friend crush -ich-

Hey Cody! I’m glad we’re friends!

JP-Sorry I made you cry. You’re my favourite person to feed. -LC

If unconditional love is possible, we need basic human level understanding [heart]

Mariel Are you ready to Date Again?

dela, I just can’t get enough of your lovin

I am a giraffe!
Not heads or tails; a giraffe!
Sometimes an Oyster

To my North Hall family: Your guys are AMAZING! -Cilla

Hey Rory you’re fuckin sweet-MT
Mariel- you light up my light meter. Love, -Dangerous Person

Meet me in the courtyard at 3:30 when the sun shines on your melodic bubbles… Tweezers are my friend
-[heart] Skippy

Gina, thanks for being the best person ever. I love you so much my life  would be qn empty dqrk hole without your shining light in my life. -me

It is amazing how a person from outside can make a comment about “a person of color who looks like a ‘hoodlum’” in community meeting in regards to the New York Arts Program. And that no one in the community adress it. Why? Progressive Community?

Bryan- want to take a spin in my lexus? [heart] Rory

Niko, Thank you for being so amazing! Oh and Friday night was oh so much fun! -your secret lover 🙂

Dear Stacey, Juliet, Amanda, Ashley
Naked time was fun, let’s do it again sometime. -Jasmine

Shea & Molly, thanks for being moldy. you guys are amazing. -Carmen

THank you Fela for all your beautiful outfits, they brighten my day.

Hey ex-girlfirend, Breaking up with you is the best, Fuck you forever, -Ex

GREER-Glad we are friends. Think you are lovely [heart] Rory

Uptown-you are one of the few people I would no shank [heart] Zebra
So when did James become cool again?

Jolly Green Giant: Thanks  for always being there. Even all the aggravating door-holding. ~The Quiet  One

Mariel, you kindof suck.

James ever thought about  privelge?
[From the editor: Hey, ever thought about spelling?]

I love Angy! I spelled your nname wrong! I love you-Emma

Caroline, You’re like, my favorite person here.

you’re the best across the hall buddy ever! Hugs!
-the girl in Birch 313

Dear Son,
Happy Birthday,
Wszystkiego Najlepszego, Feliz Cumpleanos,
-Your Suns-

Nicole & Meghan- Do your homework so we can hang out! I miss you [heart] Rory

Kim-Jenna Ich liebe dich! -Jungfrau-

Mariel- you are super. Lets be friends forever. [heart] Rory

Jamila Fela & Erin-Aja for CG? Something to think about.

So Gina, if you could just declare your love things could be MUCH easier. But there is no pressure. Ok thanx

P, thanks so much for listening, you’re the best. You know youre secrets are always safe with me. [heart] C

Is it sad that I enjoy declassifieds most of all?

Dispatches From Community Meeting

   Community Meeting galloped hard down the stretch. McGregor 113 was packed by a quarter past and the agenda was front-loaded with guest speakers, the revelation of Community Member of the Week (CMOTW), Beth’s Trivia, and a sluggish announcements segment. A quickly dissembled pulse discussion dismissed attendees by 4:03 p.m..

Manager of Dining Services, Marvin Bohn, snagged Community Member of the Week. Bohn was lauded by the venerable CCR CMs (Chelsea, Corry and Rory) for his service on CafCil and the Campus Greening Committee. A little field research yielded that the apples in the meeting’s fruit bowl were firm this week. Coincidence?

Exiled Clevelander Peter Zummo, a professor from the New York Arts Program, made an appeal to students to join his program. The New York Arts Program offers a 16 credit semester with 12 of those credits coming from an arts apprenticeship.

The irascible Bill Whitesell couldn’t help but inquire as to the big city’s safety reputation. Recounting his experience in the city 30 years ago, he wondered in earnest if students would get mugged if they traveled to New York.

Zummo, a noted trombonist, regaled the community with anecdotal evidence to attest to the city’s current high safety level. Using an epithet in sheep’s clothing, Zummo recalled his personal run-in with a Good Samaritan on the subway. He was promptly clapped for and thanked for coming.

What’s funnier: that CFB funds were reduced by $2,000 or that Horace Mann died of milk poisoning?

The latest CG budget reduced CFB funds to a total $5,600. To request funds, propose your request at Community Meeting. Fill out a CFB request and turn them in to CG by 12:00 p.m. the next day, forms can be found in CG. Then bring your request to CFB at 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday in the main building conference room.

Trivia with Beth was a joke. Winners this week get first dibs on that big cake for Founder’s Day. Whitesell correctly answered that great American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was Mann’s brother-in-law. Natalie Martin won big by explaining that old cows who ate bad grass produced bad milk. Mann drank bad milk, which explains that bad milk in the Caf is a tradition, not a mistake.

In pulse, student AdCil representative Julian Sharp announced that a press conference will be held at Antioch next Tuesday, October. 8, at 3 p.m. –in place of community meeting– to produce the community referendum vote to the media. A debriefing about this event will be held, per the Legislative Code, next Monday evening. Look for more announcements around this event.

Rowan Kaiser ’05, shared his observation that the university structure was approved at a BoT meeting on October 16th, 1977. This means, he said, the university will be celebrating its 30th birthday on college’s community day on October 16th. He recommended the college throw its ill-conceived experiment a party.

Antioch Panel Speaks at Wittenberg

“In my mind, Antioch has a soul,” mused Antioch College professor Scott Warren to a small audience gathered at Wittenberg University last Wednesday. Community members Jeanne Kay, Scott Warren, Scott Sanders, and Wittenberg professor and Yellow Springs resident Laurie Askland comprised the panel in order to openly discuss the circumstances regarding the closing of Antioch College.
The panel started off with college archivist Scott Sanders, presenting pieces of Antioch history to illuminate parallels between the college’s current financial situation and those of its past. According to Sanders, the year 1880 saw no graduates and concerned alumni and students met with the college’s Board of Trustees in order to prevent the closure of the college. Sanders also described the events of the summer that led to the announcement of closure as “surprising” and elaborated upon the efforts of friends and alumni of the College to prevent the suspension of operations that is planned for July 1, 2008.

Jeanne Kay, a second-year globalization major at the college, providing a student perspective to an intimate crowd in the Wittenberg auditorium, lamented the wave of “bad press” over the summer, following the announcement of suspension of operations. Kay stated her concerns about limited operations, facilities, and the number of students on campus, but she disputed the sentiment parlayed in newspapers across the country that campus culture has had a negative effect on the retention rate of the college. she pointed to the 100 percent retention rate of the incoming class and the fact that the second-year class has had half of its original students return to campus even after the news of suspension of operations as indicative of the environment of tolerance resplendent on campus.

Scott Warren reminded the audience of the economic implications of the college’s closure to the community of Yellow Springs and the Miami Valley. Laurie Askland, a town representative and professor of Women’s Studies at Wittenberg University described the college as the “heart” of the village. “It became clear to me how much the fabric the community I lived in was linked directly to the college,” she said.

Warren further described the measures currently undertaken by the campus community and Yellow Springs to prevent the suspension and panelists listed their favorite websites for news and background on everything Antioch.

A week after the event, it becomes evident the wave of direct action, generated by alumni and friends of Antioch college since this summer, has found its way to the Wittenberg community. Students that were present at the panel discussion have contacted Wittenberg faculty and facilitators to inquire after ways start campaigns to effective fundraise for Antioch College.

Dispatches from Yellow Springs Save Antioch Group

 A handful of townies, students, faculty andstaff met in the Coretta Scott King Center on Thursday 27th September for what will now be a weekly meeting of organizing and information exchange. The two main items on the agenda were Founder’s Day and Homecoming preparation. Students planning Founder’s Day expressed their wish to have the Yellow Springs community participate to the event. “We wanted to make sure that everyone could participate so we made [the parade] start later in the afternoon’”  said Antioch student Molly Thornton, who helped organize the event. The parade will be leaving the stoop at 4:15 p.m. and its itinerary includes the main axes of Yellow Springs.

Group coordinator and alumna Judy Wohlert-Maldonado expressed concern at the potential lack of lodging for Homecoming weekend. The Board of Trustees Meeting of the weekend of the 26th/27th of October will be heavily attended by alumni, and in parallel the Peak Oil conference will take place, thus overbooking accomodations around the town of Yellow Springs. Though talks of opening South Gym to alumni and their sleeping bags are in motion, Wohlert-Maldonado called for all community members, especially college faculty and townspeople to open their homes to visiting alumni.

The next Yellow Springs organizing meeting will take place on Thurs. Oct. 4th  at 7 p.m. in the CSKC and is open to all community members who want to make signs for the parade and discuss the referendum.