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Antioch’s rollercoaster hits another hill
(Antioch Hall, Antioch College. Dayton Daily News photo)
Antioch College students and faculty gathered in McGregor Hall on campus this afternoon were stunned and angry at the news that trustees decided to close the school in June as originally planned, saying they had run out of time to make a deal with an alumni corporation that wanted to take over the college.
The faculty were especially angry. They sounded hurt and impatient. Okay, they sounded downright PO’d. They will lose their jobs at the end of the year.
Students and faculty were told during a 1:30 p.m. community meeting in McGregor Hall on campus by college President Andrzej Bloch that “Antioch will not operate” effective June 30. He wanted them to hear the news before the rest of the world reported it - took a red-eye from Los Angeles and hasn’t slept all night, but the faculty actually wanted the administration to tell the rest of the world right away.
The meeting was broadcast via live streaming audio. A group of clever, techie Antiochians, as they call themselves, do that so the entire alumni base around the world can listen in if they want.
I’ll have more on this tomorrow afternoon and Sunday after I interview the people involved, but for now here’s what happened:
After two days of meetings in Los Angeles, the trustees said they reaffirmed their June 2007 decision to close the college for a year after negotiations failed with the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or AC3, which wanted to take over the school and create its own board of trustees.
Trustees had reversed their earlier June decision in November, contingent on whether alumni and the school could meet fundraising deadlines. The reversal came after the college’s alumni board raised millions of dollars in exchange for keeping the school open. Then trustees took that arrangement off the table in January in favor of exploring a deal with AC3, a group of donors, alumni and Yellow Springs residents.
Trustees said they ran out of time to reach a deal on transferring the financially struggling school to the group. Rick Daily, a member of the college’s alumni board, told the student meeting through a phone call that AC3 was still hopeful it could continue negotiations with trustees into the weekend. I guess AC3 showed up hoping they could present a plan, but that wasn’t part of the agreement. Trustees continue to meet through Saturday.
Trustees said they would continue discussions on a possible transfer of the college, but said it was important to clarify for students, faculty and staff that they would need to make plans for the next phase in their educations and careers. None of them are talking about the financial status of the college, saying that because they feel they are still in negotiations they can continue to keep the info confidential.
“At the same time when they say the college will not offer classes [next year], in the same voice we are saying we continue talking to AC3 about the possibility of Antioch College,” Bloch said in the community meeting.
Faculty member Chris Hill, a media arts professor and Yellow Springs resident, told Bloch she was concerned about the college’s current students, who would now have to scramble to get financial aid at other institutions.
She also expressed frustration with the board.
“I’m very concerned the kinds of things we heard today really represent the board … protecting themselves during such massive negotiations.”
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By See ya Hippies!
February 22, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
So what? What have any of those students done for the area? When they had the cop killer speak at their graduation I was done with them. Heck, where will all the lesbians go? Who’s going to buy the bongs at the head shops?By VERY CHILDISH
February 22, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Your comments “See ya Hippies” shows your immaturity. This is an adult site, act like one.By VERY CHILDISH
February 22, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Your comments “See ya Hippies” shows your immaturity. This is an adult site, act like one.By Riverdale Ghost
February 22, 2008 8:02 PM | Link to this
An end of an era is always sad and always includes questions such as, if there was a value there, why is the value gone?By New England Elitists
February 22, 2008 8:11 PM | Link to this
back a long time ago Antioch was cool. It is dated, unimportant and hasn’t kept up. Who cares if it goes? Maybe Clark State can open up a wing there. Bring in some more cop killers to campus! The parents paying the bills didn’t think that was good! The little hippies will have to go someplace else.By Oldprof
February 22, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
Perfect resolution: Yellow Springs takes over the Antioch campus via eminent domain, now that it’s derilect, abandoned property—and THEY work with AC3 and the Antioch alumni to operate the college according to its traditional values. Then the mendacious Antioch-corporation board of trustees can go spin. Oh, and while they’re at it, find out if they can levy/increase property taxes on the new McGregor campus.By painfultruth
February 22, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this
The farthest-left college in the USA closes? Wish it away, Anthony, wish it AWAY! Regardless of your belief, Antioch WAS the last-standing hippiedom in the country. Antioch makes Bezerkley look like a right-wing military-industrial complex. It is what it is, and any talk that is otherwise is fantasy!By Joe
February 22, 2008 8:35 PM | Link to this
Remember this is the same college that gave us the “can I touch you” checklist. I remember seeing how angry the students were when people protested them having the cop killer speak. They want freedom of the speech for themselves, but not for those who disagree with them. The school became unimportant and dated. No big thinking came out of that school for years. I grieve for the village, but not for the college staff. They caused the loss of students by not keeping up, being innovative and creative to draw students.By starcastic
February 22, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this
Hippie tears make my heart feel warm.By One sane person
February 22, 2008 11:20 PM | Link to this
Once again, a bunch of know-nothings take advantage of the “post your comment” link to spout their narrow-minded, simplistic blather about something they know nothing about. None of you has been on campus in decades, if ever, so spare us your “wisdom.” The most outrageous single aspect of this story is that the Antioch board members made this decision during a meeting in Los Angeles, then sent an emissary to Yellow Springs to do their dirty work. That’s gutless and despicable. Shame, shame, shame.By HSTeacher
February 22, 2008 11:25 PM | Link to this
I disagreed with Antioch when they decided to have a cop killer speak at graduation as well as a few minor things here and there. However, I feel for the staff and students. I’m sure it will be a very tough adjustment switching from one college to another for the students as well as trying to find a higher-learning teaching job, especially right now, for the staff. As for the village of Yellow Springs, even though it is a “hippie-ish” town, they are going to have a struggle on their hands maintaining and adjusting to the loss of the University.By aisler
February 22, 2008 11:30 PM | Link to this
Yeah, what has Antioch produced, except Nobel Prize winners, McArthur genius grant recipients,…pretty good job for a bunch of hippies. Funny thing is that there are about five hippies on campus. Oh, and every student does three internships (co-ops), many of those in the area. They work in childcare centers, youth shelters, work toward saving the environment, working to end HIV/AIDS. So that’s what they do for the area. What do YOU do?By TRAITOR
February 22, 2008 11:49 PM | Link to this
WHY CANT THEY GO TO COMMUNIST CHINA OR RUSSIA TO TRY AND GET FUNDING. THEY DID MORE FOR THOSE COUNTRIES THEN THEIR OWN.By AmazonRainForest
February 23, 2008 12:07 AM | Link to this
Now that this bastion of earth worshipping hippies, wiccans, and potheads is closing, maybe the handful of students that are left would like to make the Amazon their permanent residence?By Paul R. Cooper
February 23, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this
With loss of Antioch Southern Ohio falls back to a grey culture with no stimulating dissent. Antioch, the only international undergraduate college in the area needs restoration and new management but not obliteration.By nastyhippies
February 23, 2008 1:01 AM | Link to this
The springs air quality will greatly improve without all the dopers, non-bathing dreadlock wearing hippies. Good riddance,By nastyhippies
February 23, 2008 1:01 AM | Link to this
The springs air quality will greatly improve without all the dopers, non-bathing dreadlock wearing hippies. Good riddance,By daniel
February 23, 2008 5:59 AM | Link to this
its a shame how they will close antioch and yet spend millions more to keep central state open!! if it was a nasty black school the gov. would keep it open no matter what!!! at cs they get passed and shouldnt!! most cant even speak properly! they are given the degree and not earnedBy Joe
February 23, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
I’ve been on campus recently and it is a ghost town. I was on the campus in the 1970’s and the difference is huge. 200 students left? Tha’ts not enough for a good day care let alone a university. They may have produced good stuff in the PAST, but what have they done in the past decade? At least Wilberforce is apparently self sustaining. Central is filled with thugs, gangsters and idiots.By Scott
February 23, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Stunned and angry? Didn’t these people understand the Board’s decision last year? This move was expected. It is a business decision. To daniel; the funding to Central State was made by the state because the institution is a state-supported college. Antioch is a private college.By Oldprof
February 23, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this
Business decision? Well, OK, but there are all kinds of businesses. The actions of the Antioch University board resemble most closely the business model “slumlord”. And tho’ this decision was first announced last year, the board had agreed to negotiate with college alumni to keep it going—18 million dollars raised already was evidently not enough ‘business’ for them?By Paul
February 23, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this
The bastion of liberal facism closing? NO!!Can’t Hollywood, Moveon.org, Berlkey help? Anti- capitalism, anti-free speech (except their own), anti-debate and support for totlitarianism world wide got you here. You destroyed yourselves through “progressive” action. Ask the Govt. to tax “the evil rich” to save your useless selves. They caused your FAILURE anyway, didn’t they? It’s not your fault you’ve done nothing productive to keep your little collective/lie filled gulag going, is it? Enlist your cop killer elitist supporters to begin a “Save Antioch! Intellctual Death Camps Deserve to Survive” campaign. It’s ironic that your loathing for capitalism (money) got you here. Takes money (capitalism) to survive. Go away, Antioch…or ask Hugo or Raul for a loan.By John Doe
February 23, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
200 less liberal students in the world…big deal! Maybe Michael Moore should step in?By jess
February 23, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this
I do not feel bad for the staff. They can trade one part-time job for another part-time job: a public school teacher. They will still be able to make over fifty grand a year, despite only working part time. Most teachers support presidential candidates whose beliefs are in line with this University. Vote for McCain, he is a solid liberal.By HighUpInATree
February 23, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this
Antioch’s message of overpopulation, earth first,birth control, and abortion, has put the final nail in their own coffin.By Deb's Empty Liquor Bottle
February 23, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Bulldoze and level the hippi commune to make way for the a used car lot. Yellow Spring’s will be known for the biggest used car lot in the nation. I can see miles and miles of used Fords for sale. Get the bulldozers started!By I C many Useless Comments.....
February 23, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
This talk is sad. This forum is a shame. As Horace Mann himself said: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” (Horace Mann,Antioch’s First President)By Marsha
February 23, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
One of the happiest times of my life was attending the weekend college at Antioch from 1990-92 to complete my last two years of college. I was 41 when I started and worked full time and was raising two teens and had a spouse who travelled in his job. Not an easy task to do all that AND earn a degree from Antioch University (then called School for Adult and Experiential Learning. SAEL) The Antioch College Students went into hibernation on Saturdays when we were there and library workers, every last one of them treated us like crap. But everything else was wonderful and I attribute it to the Antioch philosophy. We endured some hardships on the college campus of course (this was way before the new one complete recently) We never had toilet paper, paper towels, soap and lightbulbs in the same bathroom ever. But who cared? We were learning in a fabulous environment with no tests, no traditional grades, just free to learn from teachers and readings assigned. We proved what we learned by writing about it and had papers due in every class each week. Had I had this environment in K-12 who knows what I could have accomplished? I never go back for reunions, it is too sad the way the university has gone, more like a well oiled machine now. Condolences to the college students, faculty, employees and alums. Antioch was a great place, once.By Marsha
February 23, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
One of the happiest times of my life was attending the weekend college at Antioch from 1990-92 to complete my last two years of college. I was 41 when I started and worked full time and was raising two teens and had a spouse who travelled in his job. Not an easy task to do all that AND earn a degree from Antioch University (then called School for Adult and Experiential Learning. SAEL) The Antioch College Students went into hibernation on Saturdays when we were there and library workers, every last one of them treated us like crap. But everything else was wonderful and I attribute it to the Antioch philosophy. We endured some hardships on the college campus of course (this was way before the new one complete recently) We never had toilet paper, paper towels, soap and lightbulbs in the same bathroom ever. But who cared? We were learning in a fabulous environment with no tests, no traditional grades, just free to learn from teachers and readings assigned. We proved what we learned by writing about it and had papers due in every class each week. Had I had this environment in K-12 who knows what I could have accomplished? I never go back for reunions, it is too sad the way the university has gone, more like a well oiled machine now. Condolences to the college students, faculty, employees and alums. Antioch was a great place, once.By Joe
February 23, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
“We were learning in a fabulous environment with no tests, no traditional grades” yep, all the employers I’ve ever dealt with really like that kind of environment for higher education. Antioch did it to itself. Maybe the dopers in town will move out and it can turn into a Waynesville or downtown Lebanon.By jess
February 23, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this
Well stated Paul! Even the praises that the University is getting here are funny. No tests or grades? Everyone is a winner. It reminds me of gym class back in grade school. Instead of getting ribbons for doing well, everyone now just gets a participation ribbon.By NotSurprised
February 23, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
I currently attend Antioch College. I was a transfer student in 2006, and really didn’t research the school before applying (I wanted a school close to home). I may not agree with everything said and done by faculty and staff, but I am grateful to have a place where you can express your feelings and thoughts openly and freely. I have learned more at this College than I did at a huge University. Please don’t speak ill of what you have not experienced. I will be a proud graduate in April.By Stunned
February 23, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
I am very surprised at the lack of intelligence that some of these posters have. What kind of degree do you hold? I’m guessing none! The misspellings and sentence structures show me that. Maybe the negative posters and those who keep of referring to people as “hippies” are just jealous that they couldn’t handle the college life and therefore have no degree or higher-education experience to show.By Paul
February 23, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Jess: Thank you for you comment and observations. I am disturbed that those in Ohio think that something has been lost because Antioch is closing. How does one lament the closing of an institution that at one time DID…I REPEAT DID represent our American “right” to disagree/debate/allow free comment, and find common ground and solutions? You could be right wing, left wing, an anarchist (anarchists are simpletons, violence is really easy) but an agreement to agree/disagree/find common ground could be found. Beliefs could be altered/changed/not changed, but truth in presentation and facts won out. Antioch turned into Fahrenheit 451/Animal Farm/Atlas Shrugged…totalitarianism. Doesn’t matter if they went left…totalitarianism is what they represeted/became…the rape of the human spirit/mind/reason for being. I find myself being “totalitarian” in my contempt for Antioch people. They do not represent right and wrong/hot and cold/up and down/night and day/left and right/horizontal and vertical ect. They became their own self fulfilling entity of total unadulterated bullshit. Sorry for the word “bullshit”…but I had to say it. Enough said…for now. Take care.By Paul
February 23, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
Stunned: Degree? I hold a critical degree. Sorry that you’re “stunned” at our lack of intelligence. Your arrogance is exactly typical of someone who can’t counter what was said about their precious Antioch. Can’t stand up to the criticism you elitist creep? Spelling and “sentence structures” got you up and excited? Truthfully comment about how useless your education at Antioch was!!! You are reduced to posting slams against spelling and sentence structure!!! Come on you useless snob idiot, let’s argue!!!By HuberTucky
February 23, 2008 7:18 PM | Link to this
Yep, the corporate world is doing for education what it’s done for healthcare. It ruins absolutely everything it touches, removing everything personal and human and replacing it with a cold hearted, bottom-line interest. It is a Frankenstein monster of monumental proportions. And it’s sickening and I hate it!By huberTucky
February 23, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this
Yep, the corporate world is doing for education what it’s done for healthcare. It ruins absolutely everything it touches, removing everything personal and human and replacing it with a cold hearted, bottom-line interest. It is a Frankenstein monster of monumental proportions and it’s sickening! Further, I’d LOVE to see negative hateful posters like SeeYaHippies and painfulhemerhoids choke on their own vomit.By Joe
February 23, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this
All you hippies peeing tears of lament over the loss of their no longer relavent college, do a google. The amount of people upset over the loss of this school could be counted on Captain Hook’s hand. “That illustrates why it is heartening that Antioch will close after the 2007-08 academic year. Its board of trustees says the decision is to “suspend operations” and it talks dottily about reviving the institution in 2012. There is, however, a minuscule market for what Antioch sells for a tuition, room and board of $35,221 — repressive liberalism unleavened by learning. ” bOO hOO Antioch, move your little hairy arm pitted lesbians off to berkleyBy Marsha
February 23, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this
TO PAUL: You are such an angry , sad person. I hope you get the therapy you so desperately need. What a hater you are! How does one get so worked up over the presence or demise of a college? I met guys somewhat like you in the beginning of my time at Antioch and many of them admitted around graduation that they grew in ways they never would have imagined had they not enrolled. Some suggested reading for you: “The Autobiography of Malcom X” required reading at Antioch University. A really great story of a man who hated much like you do, went to prison, and then found something he believed in before it all went away with his murder. Hate like yours always comes from fear… Ask yourself what you are afraid of. I know all who read your posts understand just how disturbed you are. Most of us will pray for you. Peace. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind” - Horace Mann, Antioch College’s founderBy Marsha
February 23, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this
TO PAUL: You are such an angry , sad person. I hope you get the therapy you so desperately need. What a hater you are! How does one get so worked up over the presence or demise of a college? I met guys somewhat like you in the beginning of my time at Antioch and many of them admitted around graduation that they grew in ways they never would have imagined had they not enrolled. Some suggested reading for you: “The Autobiography of Malcom X” required reading at Antioch University. A really great story of a man who hated much like you do, went to prison, and then found something he believed in before it all went away with his murder. Hate like yours always comes from fear… Ask yourself what you are afraid of. I know all who read your posts understand just how disturbed you are. Most of us will pray for you. Peace. “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind” - Horace Mann, Antioch College’s founderBy Joe
February 23, 2008 8:27 PM | Link to this
Darn Horace, show some patience and quick clicking your mouse. Guess they didn’t teach computers at Antioch huh? Way to get us on your side quoting Malcom X. Now there’s someone to be really proud of. Between him, Mumia and Che, you’ve pretty much covered the typical Antioch idols. It is public record that Malcolm X was a racist and anti-Semite who condemned all whites as “blue-eyed devils” doomed to burn in hell for eternity.” Ever think if the morons at Antioch had provided a more realistic and grounded education there would have been ample support for the school. Bottom line is, 200 students out of all the hippies and scum bags that place has produced? Where are the returning students wanting to follow in their parents school life? Where are the tides of applications coming in from students who want to attend a school that will provide them with an important education? This isn’t the man closing the school, it’s the scumbags who attended in the years past finally recognizing that what they were provided at Antioch did not prepare them for the real world and you can only sit at the coffee shop so long before you have to get a real job and pay some real bills.By rodmunch
February 23, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this
Ill miss Antioch and all the good weed and mushrooms that came from there. No more protests, bongo jams, sitting in circles, lesbians, long hair, hemp necklaces, beads, or sandles.By rodmuncH
February 23, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this
When I went on a visit there I stopped in on several classes. The Engineering department was creating a robot that could play the bongos and hit a bong at the same time. Chemistry was creating a way to turn exhaled weed smoke into ethanol to fuel their hybrids. Physics were creating a sandle that would last 1000 years. Geology was polishing rocks to put on a hemp necklace. Astronomy was building a teloportation device that could put someone in San Fransisco, Berkley, or a Grateful Dead concert instantly. Economics taught that coffee beans and concert tickets be used as a new currency.By The truth
February 23, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this
Will Antioch be missed? I didn’t even know it was there. :)By Dan
February 23, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this
I am saddened to see Antioch University close. I believe that the liberal attitude displayed by (some students), the general condition of the campus,helped create an environment that exacerbated the financial health of the school.By Dan
February 23, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this
I am saddened to see Antioch University close. I believe that the liberal attitude displayed by (some students), the general condition of the campus,helped create an environment that exacerbated the financial health of the school.By Paul
February 23, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this
Marsha: Spot on response from a liberal!!! Anyone who tells the truth, offers comment opposing yours, is “angry, sad, and hateful!!!” Listen, closet sociopath, don’t tell me to read a book by a murdering spitefull “hate mongering bigot” (Oh my God, Marsha, now you have me doing it!!!!!!) that espoused the demise of part of the human race due to their “Tribal Chiefs” selling them off to slavery after a victory, and blaming it on “the blue eyed devils.” (IE: reference Joe, above…Good man, Joe.) Fearful? Me? Yes, I am. I am fearful of people like you that “feel”, don’t think, lost your individuality, are a sheep to the collective, and couldn’t/wouldn’t stand up to finding truth, telling truth, and establishing that anyone you disagree with might have a valid point. I fear you because you, and millions more like you, are anti-individual, want freedom as you “define” it (usually to the detriment of freedom), and couldn’t/wouldn’t know that the propaganda you relish will take us all down, eventually. You “knowing that all who read my posts know how disturbed you are” shows your stellar ignorance of difference of opinion and debate. Marsha, don’t be so weak in your attack on me and other “posters”. Cheap shots are just that. You cheap, Marsha? I am reading real cheapness in you, and your response. It/you are not intelectually valid. Your “education” at the alter of all knowing Antioch hasn’t prepared you to be a well rounded person. Since they taught you only “cheap shots”, how about this one? “Hey Marsha, your feet ever get tangled up in those big earrings you wear?” Cheap enough, Marsha? I learned it from you.By Environmental Wacko
February 23, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this
This is an excellent opportunity for Antioch to reinvent itself while maintaining its left-thinking tradition. I believe that the university was unsuccessful because of 2 primary reasons:The curriculum that it offered and its cost. The tuition was too expensive to attract local residents for the curriculum that it offered. The campus however is perfectly located in a dynamic town like Yellow Springs to become a preeminent Arts college. I am confident that individuals with vision and influence will see that in an arts capacity, Antioch could become one of the most sought after colleges in the country.By Joe
February 23, 2008 10:11 PM | Link to this
Excuse me for asking Wacko but exactly where is the dynamic town of Antioch you are talking about. Certainly not the one with Haha pizza on the corner, must be some place in Northern Ohio because there isn’t an ounce of dynamic in that entire village. It’s dated, the housing is old and overpriced. They don’t know how to trim back their hedges and the only good thing about the town is the ice cream shop!By Environmental Wacko
February 23, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this
Yellow Springs is a rare gem. It has a rich and vibrant history of looking at things differently than the rest of the world. That type of attitude would transcend into a very successful college of Art.( not just visual arts but all of the arts.) Yellow Springs is an oasis is a vast wasteland of fast food restaurants and decaying strip malls. It is because of its rebellious and free-thinking style that it has been able to avoid the same toxic development that has eroded the quality of life in the small cities like Fairborn, Xenia,Huber Heights and Springfield that neighbor it. This is an opportunity, not a disaster.By Environmental Wacko
February 23, 2008 10:26 PM | Link to this
by the way, I meant to say an oasis IN, not is.By Tom
February 23, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this
It was just a matter of time until hippy parents grew up and no longer thought it was cool for their kids to be communists. When I was a senior in HS in 62, I had a list of Ohio colleges to examine. Antioch was the first one scratched off that list by my parents and HS advisors. I lived in a small town, and had never heard of the place; but every adult I talked to said to stay away from Antioch. From reading the majority of these comments, I see that was good advice!By rhonda
February 24, 2008 1:47 AM | Link to this
Any institution which embraces anarchy is doomed. Antioch students calling people with “dissenting viewpoints” (which they claim to relish) “haters” is such a perfect example of their shallow minds. They have been force-feeding hatred on society long enough. While I try being “tolerant”, and I actually enjoy Yellow Springs, the “Bring a Cop-Killer to School” day was the end of my tolerance for anything out of Antioch. I keep seeing the quote “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” What have these students done for humanity?? Other than stir the pot of hatred and meaningless dissent and embracing anything “different” even if it’s bad…That’s not winning a victory for anything other than to further their selfish, juvenile world-view by attempting to silence any opinion or idea but their own. It is difficult to understand how such supposedly “educated” “enlightened” and “intelligent” people can be so blind to the fact that they now embody the fascism that their predecessors were supposedly trying to overcome. What a shame (or, sham). I am glad to see Antioch close and I can’t wait until this so called “backlash” reaches every other campus, because rather than being a backlash it is actually an attempt by normal people to regain a civil, polite and safe society which was stolen in a mere 40 or so years when the farce called “the new morality” was foisted upon unsuspecting (and overly tolerant) americans. And that’s all I have to say about that.By Knotts
February 24, 2008 6:33 AM | Link to this
Wow, maybe Yellow Springs will be a nice place to visit again if some of the hippie communists would just leave. Good riddance Antioch.By James
February 24, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
What is a shame is that this will be a death blow to Yello Springs. Maybe the school should have thought a little better when they decided to allow their students to have total free-will with their campus housing decisions. 15 grand a year+ to go to a school that looks like a dump; no way.By Pa Ubu
February 24, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this
It’s too bad that Antioch has degererated into an overpriced day care facility, but it has been in a free fall for over thirty years. Is anyone truely surprise?By skokum
February 24, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
The action by the AU BoT was not surprising. They have failed in the past management of Antioch College and are now failing in the transfer of the College to a group of qualified, dedicated and committed alumni and supporters of Antioch College. In a corporate world, this kind of failure would have lead to the dismissal of the Board Chairman, the CEO in this case Chancellor Murdock and the appointment of a receiver to administer the assets of the institution until the institution was restored to an ongoing operation or the assets liquidated. The AU BoT have never acted in good faith during either set of negotiations. Maybe it is now time for more direct action on the part of the alumni and supporters of the college.By Joe
February 24, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
If there were any real supporters of this college, it never would have gotten this far. The students attending do not support the size of the school. Without a large influx of students no one in their right mind would put a dime into this school. The alumni are the ones who have failed this school, allowing the idiots running it to make the stupid decisions they have which engendered no support from the local community. A community I might add that has always been treated like an enemy by the elitest little idiots attending the school. The only time I saw any of the little darling attending out in the real world away from YS was when the hairy arm pit lesbians protested the pro life people at abortion clinics or protesting the war they will never be involved in downtown Dayton at the federal building. The moveon.org ilk students and their “professors” have caused the demise of Antioch. The anarchist jerkoffs who either attended class at Antioch or were taking advantage of an ugly new england girl for a place to shack up helped push the school over the cliff. The public simply does not care about the school, because the school has never cared about the public.By Lee
February 24, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
I used to work for a Company in Yellow Springs that had strong ties to Antioch. For the many years I was employed their, the only opinion that mattered was that of the tree huggers that I worked with, I finally left and cleared my head of all of the Hippie Crap alive in the business. It does not surprise me to see Antioch going away, it has out lived it usefulness If it ever had one other than keeping draft dodgers out of the armed services…By Antiochian
February 24, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this
I went to Antioch. I never wore sandals or attended a drum circle. I have no idea where people who never attended there get these ideas. I didn’t hang with those kids and kids on every campus in America do those things. I bet you’d find a lot more stoners at OSU than at Antioch. Personally, I, and most everyone else I knew, was rather busy reading, writing, discussing, meeting with my profs, and participating in community life. That didn’t leave much time for frisbee golf or running around naked, as some of you seem to think. I played in bands and worked for the newspaper and technology offices. There’s not much time for bong hits when you’re transcribing voice-to-text for the blind. I graduated before Mumia spoke (as he has done at many other campuses, like Kent State, for example—so go protest there if you want, they’re still open) so I can’t say anything about that incident. It has nothing to do with me or my experience. That affair was for one graduating class. There have been many more than one. I now teach for a living: expelled students, juvenile criminals, kids from extreme poverty, kids coming out of or waiting to go to jail—you know, the ones you’re scared to have in your neighborhood—the ones you read about getting shot or shooting someone else. I’m working with those kids every day. That’s what I’m doing with my Antioch education. I’m sorry that teachers don’t make enough money to give much back to the College. So that’s what I’m doing with my education; what are you doing with yours?By Joe
February 24, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
Antiochian, kind of under performing aren’t you? Scared to have those kids in my neighborhood? That is such a typical, I’m better than you Antioch response. Thanks for making the point many others have been making about your pompous little group of antioch alumini. Mumia had nothing to do with your experience? Well it sure did with thousands of others who were astonished that the idiots at the school would support and permit it.Try having one of your loved ones murdered and then the suspect made some kind of hero by a whole university and see how that would make you feel. How many Antioch students have set foot on the west side of dayton except to buy dope? Where are all these community programs conducted I keep hearing about?By Marsha
February 24, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
Kudos to Antiochian! I too never wore sandals or large hoop earings. I was and am now a social worker making a for a measly $36,000 a year (only EMS people make less then we do) helping the elderly find ways to stay in the community and delay nursing home living. I also help their family caregivers cope. Money is not an issue when you are working in a helping profession.Before that I was an investigator in adult protective services for a county in the Miami Valley and while I was at Antioch U. And all you Antioch haters are gonna hate this: my Antioch education cost me nothing because the taxpayers of the Great State of Ohio paid for it because I was a county employee at the time I was completing my undergraduate degree at Antioch. It’s called tuition reimbursement. Thanks !!!:):):)By Joe
February 24, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
Marsha, just think if you’d of gone to a good school you could be making a living wage now.By moderate, observing...
February 24, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
Paul: I was so very saddened to read your hate-filled comments. All I can say is, everyone, please, please pray for Paul. And try to forgive him. I don’t want to know the path that brought him to such hatred (though I suspect it is steeped in early childhood, as are so many “unarticulatable” situations). His anger and hate will only fester inside him, making him miserable (though I’m sure he doesn’t recognize this, at least not yet). Paul, seriously, rhetoric aside, please seek counseling for your anger. It is not healthy, and thereby, you are not healthy. You should not have such rage, or lashing out at people you don’t even know. I’m only posting this because, after you’re done lashing out again, I hope that you’ll print this, and hang onto it, re-reading it, many times initially being angry, but sometime in the future, you will understand that you are a man who deeply needs counseling… once you’re man enough to accept that. Don’t respond. Print this. Re-read it however often you want. Once you finally get “it,” recognize it, try to come to grips with it, OWN it, and seek professional help. The world will be better for it.By pqsbz horbtef
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