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Letters – Beca and Tim on Coop in Santa Fe

Dear Antioch Community,

This is a letter to everyone from Beca and Tim. We have both recently returned from the New Mexico Co-op “Community”. Two of our classmates are being expelled for events that occurred throughout this co-op “community” experience. As we were both present throughout this entire ordeal and had a close connection with both students, we felt we should share what we witnessed, and why we feel these expulsions are unjust. Continue reading Letters – Beca and Tim on Coop in Santa Fe

On Board with the Chair

Q&A with BOT chair Art Zucker on College, Core and Common DNA

By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

BOT, ULC, Toni Murdoch, Art Zucker, John Feinberg; these acronyms and names fl y around frequently, but largely remain an enigma to many residing on campus. Who are these people and what do they do? The Antioch Record sat down with chair of the Board of Trustees Art Zucker ‘55, to talk about the roles of the Board, his memories as an Alum and the future of the College.

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Steak & Sustainability: Adventures with Steve Lawry in Berea’s Eco Village

Solar Panel By Paige Clifton Steele

After 187 miles and four separate conversational uses of the word “keen”, Steve and I arrived at the hotel. He parked his 2006 Toyota Prius (tan, with a tastefully colored console that told us how much energy we had consumed on the drive) and we stepped out into the crisp December air. Together, we were there at Berea College of Berea, Kentucky, to investigate the limitless possibilities of sustainable energy. Continue reading Steak & Sustainability: Adventures with Steve Lawry in Berea’s Eco Village

ComCil Spill

By Madeline Helser

Suggestions for motions for naptime, a discussion of C.M.s in the summer and working with the new curriculum, talks of the “skeletal crew of people here in the summer” by Bob Devine and the long-term guest policy, are what constituted last Thursday afternoon’s second to last ComCil meeting of this term.

The meeting got off to a slow start, most members being of dreary state, so Chelsea Martens suggested making a motion to have naptime. Unfortunately, it was shut down.

One thing on the agenda was a proposal about Community Government in the new curriculum. This was brought about because “the new student-less summers in the new curriculum present an opportunity to re-center CG on its core mission of providing communication and leadership to the whole of the community, not solely students.”

The four points made in the proposal are as follows: to extend CG’s time in office to the end of May in order to increase the transition time between the new and old CG which would start May of 2007, for CG to assume full responsibility for the planning and implementation of the Fall new student orientation which started last summer according to the survival guide, for CG to assume co-responsibility for co-coordinating pre-orientation programs such as MAKE IT, Bonner, etc. with the existing departments, and for CG to organize orientation sessions for new employees.

The long-term guest policy is about people who the college hosts in the summer. This is to go to Community Meeting for the whole community to discuss. In order to ensure your input in this issue about who gets to stay and doesn’t when we host conventions and such, be at next Tuesday’s community meeting at 3 o’clock!

The open-session of the meeting then promptly ended, marking what Kelsey MacDonald remarked, “felt like the shortest ComCil meeting ever!”

Power Chords and Blast-Beats Pound the Walls of the Union

By the CCNWSS (Jeremie Jordan)

About eight years ago Reversal of Man proclaimed that “internet and indie-rock are killing hard-core.” Certainly Dayton’s own once prolific extreme music scene has since reached a very stark low. With punk rock bars and venues closing their doors, all-ages shows practically ceasing, veteran hipsters moving away or settling down, and the attempt of major labels to cash in on the pseudo-post-heavy watered down trendy music that passes as punk, metal, and hardcore, the younger bands in the local scene that have any ties to, or play any true form of these styles are very far and few between. Once upon a not so distant past, Dayton was synonymous with creative and ground-breaking music. Our city was known for the quantity of quality music that emerged in the nineteen nineties with such gems as Brainiac, The Breeders, Guided By Voices, The Amps, Twenty-third Chapter, and countless others leading the way and bringing much attention to the energetic scene. The past few years, however, have been marred by bad luck, tragedy, and loss of resources. Continue reading Power Chords and Blast-Beats Pound the Walls of the Union