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From The Editors

By Jeanne Kay

I wish I could celebrate. I wish I could have called Bard College this week thanking them for their patience but telling them that I will never enroll, instead of simply deferring again. I wish I could have sent an email to my friends and family back home that said “The good news is that you’re invited again to my graduation ceremony in 2010. The bad news is, it’s still in Ohio.” I wish I could have let my yellow balloon escape, I wish the bell of main building had rung, I wish I could have gone back to being a normal student. I wish I could have felt relief.

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Letter from Victoria Hochberg ‘64

I was on an airplane.  It was Fall, early 1960’s.  We had taken off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport and the concrete city with shimmering rivers moved quickly behind us.  We rose into the fog– a world of white, an auspicious beginning for a new student.  When we descended, the earth was a quilt of browns and greens, and then, closer, spotted with… oh my god, there are COWS near the runway.
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“Antioch’s Near Death and Revival as a Learning Experience” – Michael Brower ’55

  Antioch College is based on both classroom and real world learning.  Let’s look at our recent Near-Death and Revival asking What happened? What did and didn’t work?  What could we learn?  Here are my own 12 learning areas.

1. Organizing, not blaming.  What worked was not complaining and blaming, but lots of organizing and dialogue with help from everybody – Faculty, Students, Alums, AND from the majority of Trustees, who, believe it or not, really do want Antioch College to survive, be healthy, and thrive.  Lesson?  Involve, don’t blame. Continue reading “Antioch’s Near Death and Revival as a Learning Experience” – Michael Brower ’55

Letter from Carl Hyde ’48

To the Editor and the students:

Along with the euphoria of knowing that our beloved college will not die I have a feeling of great respect and gratitude to the current students. You have been the kind of students that best represent the ideals of Antioch. It is of great importance that you all came in September, even though you had no assurance that you could complete your education here. That fact, and your calm, mature presence during the weekend of the board meeting played a significant role in the outcome.

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“Observations on Antioch” – Letter by Ted Goertzel ‘64

November 7, 2007

When I attended Antioch from 1959 to 1964, it was a vibrant, bustling campus known for political activism, although only about 50 of us on each division actually went to meetings and demonstrations.  I went to Columbus to protest the blockade of Cuba, to Selma to march for civil rights, and to Wright Patterson air force base to protest militarism.  I was arrested right in Yellow Springs for protesting segregation at Gegner’s barber shop, and spent the night in jail in Xenia.  Continue reading “Observations on Antioch” – Letter by Ted Goertzel ‘64