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Transience Is Home

By Marjorie Jensen

I could say that I am at Antioch because of my familiarity with transience. I’ve moved 23 times in the continental US in 24 years. Home has always been somewhat synonymous with impermanence. It is a shifting paradigm – the place changes, the people change, but the concept remains.

People always ask “why?” Military brat is sometimes included with a question mark. Admittedly, part of it was not under my control. My parents were actually in radio (my father still is), both moved when they split, and I bounced between them for most of my childhood. Compelled somehow by their tradition of moving every year or two, I couldn’t stay still in my adult life. Antioch itself is my third college. And I leave every other term or so. Transience has been integrated into my soul. I perpetually put myself in the path of change. As Kerouac said, “this road drives me!!” Continue reading Transience Is Home

Echoes 3: First days on the Other Side, February 2004

By Jeanne Kay

Jeanne KayFort de France,
Martinique

There is smoke coming from the city; it rises over the forest of masts that floats in the bay of Fort de France. I was surprised when I saw them: “What? So many people sail?” French, Italian, Ukrainian boats… all anchored a few feet from each other; sailors crossing the bay all day long in their dinghies, to the shore and back with children and bags of groceries, all in a roar of Yamaha engines. So much agitation after weeks of solitude!

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FACULTY PROFILE: Haruna Tomaru

Haruna TomaruName: Haruna Tomaru
(Climbing Castle)
Sign: Aquarius
Teaches: Japanese
Bloodtype: B

How long have you been here?

This is my seventh year. I came here in 1999.

How did you end up here?

I came here as an exchange student when I was in college at Kyoto Seika University. My major was humanities. I wanted to work an international job. Then, I didn’t know specifics about what job I wanted. My uncle worked at United Nations and he always talked about different countries’ culture so I got interested in working with and studying different cultures. We had three choices at my University: Thailand, Australia, and the US. I went to Thailand when I was in high school, so I chose the US that time. But I still loved Thailand. The people are so nice and the weather was too. But I wanted to see non-Asian countries. And for Australia you had to do homestay, but at Antioch I could stay in the dorm, so I chose here.

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CCNWSS Retrospective

By the CCNWSS (Mariel Traiman)

It’s been a wild ride Antioch, a rockin’ rollercoaster of unparalleled highs, and unenthusiastic lows. Through it all I’ve been there, diligently reporting on every pulse pounding, bass thumping, hip thrusting, cream leaking minute of party passion. From our nervous and humble beginning at the Swan Island show (remember when you could still buy beer? That was sweet) to the sinful orgy of binary busting debauchery we call Genderfuck. How you’ve watched me grow from back in the good old days of shameful anonymity, to the time I accidentally made the whole school hate me, to the times you’ve come up to me with kind words of encouragement- maybe just to say “thanks for appreciating my dance moves.” So join me for a little trip down memory lane as I relive some of my favorite party quotes and moments of the semester. Continue reading CCNWSS Retrospective