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Volume 64 Issue 2 www.recordonline.org Friday 31st August 2007
Inside
We know what
you did last sum-
mer…
From political orga-
nizing in Detroit to
co-oping in Dar-es-Sa-
laam, to marching to
the docks of the Baltic
Sea, find out how An-
tioch students spent
their summer
pp. 8 -11
“ Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense
regardless of how it turns out” –V aclav Havel
Strain on campus
ressources
How is the Olive hold-
ing up? Why is our
bookshop branching
out? Get up to date on
pp. 4-5
Welcoming Class
of 2011
75 courageous incom-
ing students set foot
on campus last week,
find out how Orienta-
tion was organized and
how first years are
adapting to Antioch
p. 13
Andrzej Bloch to
become Antioch’s
Interim President
in January 2008
By Sarah Buckingham
On July 26, Antioch College
president Steve Lawry announced
his resignation to the community,
effective by the end of Decem –
ber of this year. “My family and
I have taken this decision in light
of the June 9th, 2007, decision of
the Antioch University Board of
Trustees to suspend operations at
the College from July 1st, 2008,”
Lawry said in an official press
release by the College. “I look
forward to contributing in other
ways to the advancement of the
kinds of values Antioch has tradi-
tionally taught and honored—en-
gaged citizenship, free and open
intellectual inquiry, and respect
for human dignity.”
Shortly after Steve Lawry’s an-
nouncement, several newspapers
published the news that Chan-
cellor Toni Murdoch had asked
Antioch College dean of faculty
Andrzej Bloch to assume the
role of interim president on the
first of January 2008. However,
as yet there has been no formal
announcement as to whether An-
drzej will accept the new title.
Continued on p. 7
Sign here please
Student Waiver sparks
controversy on campus
By Jeanne Kay
A wind of panic spread among Antioch
students upon their return to campus last
week. Along with the traditional contact
sheet that they were asked to fill out,
they were requested to sign a “Student
acknowledgement of suspension of
operations of Antioch College”.
Continued on page 5
1
Admissions Re-
opened?
New director of Ad-
missions Angie Gluk-
hov on recruitment
and transition p.4
BOT to collaborate with Alumni Board on plan for
viable future of Antioch College
Separate Board for college under consideration
By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans
“This tree is not ready to die. New twigs are budding;
you’ve heard them today,” faculty member Hassan Ra-
chmanian told Antioch Trustees and close to 200 stake-
holders assembled at a Kentucky airport hotel on Saturday
morning. Whether it was his plea or that of dozens of oth-
ers last weekend, the Board of Trustees of Antioch Col-
lege on Monday announced its willingness to collaborate
with the college Alumni Association to further develop a
business plan for the future of a viable Antioch College.
In addition, the trustees in a separate vote expressed their
willingness to consider the creation of a separate Board for
the college with “significant authority” .
The Board adopted a resolution to that affect on Sun-
day, following a weekend hearing of stakeholders from the
wider College and Yellow Springs Community whose col-
lective efforts over the last two months have brought to the
table over eight million dollars in cash and pledges to keep
the doors of Antioch College open past the academic year
2007. In its efforts to assist the Alumni Associa-
tion (AA) in creating its business plan by
late October 2007, the University is provid-
ing the alumns full due diligence access to
all financial data of the college. By doing
so, the Board and University leadership de-
part from its earlier position not to hand out
specific data, taken on this summer and gal-
vanized in a statement half August after ten-
ured Antioch faculty filed suit in an attempt
to obtain an injunction against the closing
of the College.
In addition to giving access to the necessary
financial information, the Board is granting
the alumni boards request to create a fully
staffed development office to further pursue
the engagement and philantropy of about
17.000 living alumni of Antioch College.
Our belief is that there is 100 million out
there, but we can’t do that unless we have a
fully staffed development office,”
Continued on p. 6
‘We need this
one”
Dispatches from the
Cincinnati meeting
with BOT
p.6
Editors
Kim-Jenna Jurriaans
Jeanne Kay
Our Brand New Staff:
David Bishkoff:
Reviews
Alex Borowicz:
Reporter
Sarah Buckingham:
Reporter
Paige Clifton-Steele:
Foreign Correspondant
Levi Cowperthwaite:
Sexpert
Ben Horlacher:
Reporter
Ed Perkins:
Newswatcher/ Reporter
Tommy Robertson:
Reporter
Jessica Rapchik:
Reporter/Political Correspondant
Miyuki Sese:
Interviews
Diane Starkweather:
Reporter
Kari Thompson:
Photographer
Marysia Walcerz:
Reporter/ Reviews
Editing Assistants:
Billy Joyce
Marysia Walcerz
Advertisement Manager:
Ben Horlacher
Photoshop Expert:
Alex Borowicz
Contributors:
Dennie Eagleson
Susan Greene
Julian Sharp
Rachel Smith
Mission Statement
To serve the information needs of the
community in a continuous fashion
To provide all members of the commu-
nity with access to their newpaper
To serve as a reliable instrument for
recording the college’s history
To serve as a reliable instrument for
education in civic and journalistic re-
sponsibility
Special
Thanks to:
Christian Feuer-
stein
Matt Baya
Erik Ryerson
Alan Benard
Dear Antiochians,
At Saturday’s Cincinnati meeting, many com-
munity members expressed their satisfaction at
finally being able to meet the members of the
Board of Trustees. The pleasure to be able to
interact face to face with the people behind the
institution was genuine and candid. An exterior
observer might wonder why, considering the
circumstances… But Duffy explained it well
at the stakeholders session: “Antioch is an inti-
mate place; our students care about intimacy”.
“We want to have a relationship with you”, he
declared to the Board in our name.
Antioch is a place that favors intimacy; and
the question has already been raised: if the
college does stay open, how big should it be-
come? Nostalgics of the late 1960s ‘golden age’
sometimes hold the 1500-2000 students model
in reference. Toni Murdock, in her recent PhD
Commencement speech, refers to her “dream”
of a “virtual commons” as the university of the
future. This idea goes in the direction of cur –
rent patterns of globalization—as described by
her principal reference throughout the speech,
Thomas Friedman—in which the physical
space becomes increasingly disregarded, at
great loss for the local.
The Antiochian values of bottom up action,
shared governance and community solidarity
are contrary to that vision. They call for resis-
tance against any such attempts at uniformiza-
tion and dehumanization. They call for the rec-
ognition of the collective through respect for
the individual, and the sacredness of personal
interactions.
Whatever a future Antioch College may come
to be, I hope that it will always remain an in-
timate community. The so often undermined
power of intimacy sometimes resurfaces de-
spite it all, and authentic interactions might
still hold more value than is usually attached to
them. We can look for proof in the outcome of
Saturday’s meeting.
With Love, -JK
2
Dear Community,
Nostalgia, for some a warm and fuzzy word
that expresses honor for the wisdom of your
predecessors and respect for the past; for others
it’s a synonyme for backwardness and lack of
adaptability to the new.
It is putting on a pedistole the imperfect because
it conveys a feeling. It’s what fuels places like
Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, where the the
cherished traditions and glorified experiences of
the father become the promises of the son and
his daughter after that. History and memory in
these places are captured in historic buildings
that never crumble. I can only assume that on
a campus where the choice is between moving
into Dickens’ or Byron’s old room, black mold
and poorly done grafity is not an issue.
Nostalgia is allowed, it seems, encouraged
even when it is backed up with ever impeccable
buildings and supplemented with state of the art
new computer labs, as if to proove that one has
not stayed behind.
But what if the buildings are crumbling? Re-
cently, the media with willing quotes from
those who should defend us, has all to often
made a parody of Antioch. Our decaying build-
ings become indicative of our loss of academic
rigour, piercings and tatoos a reason to declare
our spiritual demise. What we are left with is
nostalgia for better days long out of reach.
If attending the meeting in cincinnati has done
one thing, it is to counter this. Those attending
showed that we are rich in thought and spirit,
they were intelligent and compassionate, elo-
quent and creative and they hold on to what our
predecessors have left us with because have
made it our own and we value what it entails.
To speak with the words of alumn Larry Rubin
“To say that our product is based on nostalgia
shows a misunderstanding of what we are about
and it shows a misunderstanding of what edu-
cation is about. It is about collective memory,
not condos.”
KJ
To the Antioch University
Board of Trustees
My name is Julian Sharp and I am a senior
at Antioch College. Over the past three years
my experience at Antioch has been rich. I have
taken challenging courses, involved myself
in shared governance, for those of you on the
board who know what ComCil is, I at one time
served as the chair, made life long friends and
have traveled the world through co-op and An-
tioch Education Abroad.
Over the past few years I have also had the
privilege of serving on the Board of Trustees of
the Unitarian Universalist Association. A key
focus of my role as Trustee has been fiduciary
responsibility, something I suspect you may be
familiar with. Somewhere between homework
and my social life this twenty-two year old has
managed to partially oversee financial resourc-
es to the tune of nearly a quarter billion dollars.
I have learned that we invest in what we value.
Where we spend money speaks volumes about
our morals. As a trustee I consider it my per –
sonal responsibility to clearly understand com-
plex financial issues, regardless of how daunt-
ing they seem…what about me seems toxic to
you?
I don’t know if many of you are aware, but
I can legally get married in the state of Mas-
sachusetts. While on co-op in Boston I worked
for an organization called Mass Equality. Mass
Equalities goal is to secure equal marriage
rights for same sex couples. This past sum-
mer we won! Two thirds of the state legislature
voted for marriage equality. Antioch is a part
of this victory. Our students and Alumni are
making important contributions toward the bet-
terment of society across many sectors. Move-
ments to counter oppression and create just and
sustainable communities are full of people like
us, students and alumni of Antioch College.
When asked to describe the college, I always
make the comment that Antioch is one of the
most relevant schools in the country. Being able
to take a course on the USA PATRIOT ACT
and then co-oping with the American Civil Lib-
erties Union is a great example of a relevant
college. Students graduate from Antioch better
equipped to understand academic theory and
its practical application. Antioch students are
involved in struggles against systemic violence
and injustice. If you look you will see that Anti-
och’s legacy is alive and kickin with its current
students. Why don’t you know that and where
have you been?
I believe in Antioch, our legacy, our current
situation, and our uncertain future! I trust the
faculty, the alumni board, I even trust most stu-
dents. But honestly, I don’t know you, and you
have already lost most of my trust. This board
is removed from the community it’s supposed
to govern. I believe you and your recent pre-
decessors have engaged in a board culture of
abandonment of our beloved college. This is a
problem. It is indicative of systemic problems I
have witnessed over time. From board member
to board member, clearly there is money to be
raised and clearly with real leadership we can
raise the funds to be financially secure. But not
under your leadership and not under our cur –
rent dysfunctional governance structure. If you
do not see viable options you are not looking.
For this and many other reasons I strongly sup-
port the Alumni Board of Directors plan, and
I hope you do too. I think we are all hoping
that you will make the best and most educated
decision in the coming months. However, let
it be known that the students are back! We are
back and we are organizing. Be aware, the stu-
dents will not sit by while our college is gutted.
There is a strong possibility that individual and
collective legal action will be taken on behalf
of the students.
I am not toxic. Our culture is not toxic. Our
faculty is inspiring, our students are brilliant,
creative and unconventional and our spirits
are high. Again, my name is Julian Sharp and
I strongly support the Alumni Board of Direc-
tors plan to keep Antioch College open, its fac-
ulty tenured, and its financial situation stable.
To miss this opportunity would be a travesty.
Thank you.
Julian Sharp
This speech was delivered at the Cincinnati
meeting with the BOT, on Saturday 25th Au-
gust 2007
Op/Eds & Letters
Open Letter to
Antioch students
by College Alumna
I just returned from a weekend in
YSO and attended the open forum
session with the Board of Trustees.
As an alum (class of ’77), I had not
been on campus since the late 1990s
when I tried to interest my daughter
in attending. My experience this
weekend reminded me of why I have
always loved Antioch and why I
stayed after the 1973 strike.
Everything I have ever accomplished
of any significance is due to my years at
Antioch College (parenting included).
I’m often asked how I learned the
skills of my profession and I always
credit my years at Antioch College.
(I own a healthcare consulting firm.)
I explain that I learned active listening
through participation in AdCil
and long meetings held to debate
whatever issue was the hot topic on
campus (including the ’73 strike).
My classes emphasized critical
thinking and the synthesis of multiple
theories and ideas. During my work
study job in the WYSO newsroom,
under the careful mentoring of Mark
Mericle, I tested my communication
and analytic skills. Finally, I gained
confidence and independence through
the coop program/AEA experiences in
Mississippi, New Orleans, Washington
DC, and Mexico.
So why did I become alienated from
the College from which I loved and
took so much?
In part, the complexities of life just
took over. Fundamentally, however,
my generation received unfair blame
for the enrollment decline and financial
chaos after the ’73 strike. Perhaps we
were the first toxic generation. Many
seemed to forget that the strikers,
whether we agreed with their tactics
or not, actually challenged Dixon’s
funding priorities (expansion to over
20 campus locations) and predicted the
College would eventually ultimately
suffer (for which they were labeled as
marginal and fatalistic thinkers). So,
as a 1
st year student who survived the
strike, I distrusted the expansion and
move towards a University system
from the beginning. I endured the strike
– thousands of pounds of garbage piled
on the horseshoe in front of Antioch
Hall (strikers picketed to prevent
garbage pickup), the suspension of
classes and meal service, and a deeply
divided campus. Yet I stayed.
The first year students I drove to the
Cincinnati Board meeting reminded
me of myself and other entering
students of 1972; excited, curious,
inquisitive, polite, and eager to start
their Antioch adventure. They sensed
this year would provide a very special
opportunity to participate in a collective
effort to save Antioch College and to
understand the dynamics that led us to
where we are today.
I admire all of you, both entering
and returning students, for making a
decision to go down this unpredictable
path. Please remember you have the
support of staff, faculty, the village,
and thousands of alumni who are
working towards a common goal. We
will not forget you are actually living
through this uncertainty and intensity
day after day. Believe me, you will not
regret it!
In solidarity, Susan Greene 1977
4th Year Student Julian Sharp adresses
Board of Trustees at Saturday Meeting
3
Bookstore in Danger of
Reduced Hours
By James Thomas Robertson the Ninth
Over the past several years the Antioch College
bookstore’s revenue has mirrored the steadily
decreasing enrolment. Once most Antioch
students have bought their books and supplies
for class at the bookstore many seldom return
until next term. Antioch McGregor has been
becoming a more constant source of sales for
the bookstore, however even with this source
of income the bookstore would sometimes only
make 25 dollars in a day. At the rate business
has been going the bookstore’s operations may
have been switched to an online store, which is
common at smaller schools that can not support
a campus store.
With plans of building a new separate campus
to the west of Yellow Springs, McGregor was
faced with finding a store which could supply
its new campus with the books and tools
necessary for classes. McGregor had originally
considered having a corporation like Barnes and
Noble run the new bookstore. Since the Antioch
book store is accustomed to dealing with the
needs of McGregor students it was decided
a new Antioch College bookstore would be
opened on the McGregor West campus instead
of a franchise. Milt Thompson, Vice President
of Student Affairs and Auxiliary Ressources at
the College declared: “If McGregor had taken
their business some place else, Steve Lawry,
the operations folks and I would have had to
consider closing the bookstore down, and
going to an online service. I don’t think our
community would be in favor of that.”
Even though the new Antioch College book
store would be located on the McGregor West
Campus it would still be owned by Antioch
College and all revenue would return to the
college. Likewise, the new bookstore would
also pay rent to McGregor for the space used.
McGregor and Antioch College products will
still be available at both book stores to provide
convenience for all students.
On February 27
th 2007 Steve Lawry announced
that 20 positions throughout the college would
be eliminated. Among these 20 was one of the
two bookstore employees. Currently one person
is running the Antioch bookstore, and trying
to open the new store at McGregor once final
inspections are passed for the new building.
Once the new bookstore is open there will
only be one person running both stores. Both
McGregor and Antioch College are hopeful
that FWSP and IWS students will step up to
work in the bookstores, increasing the number
of hours for both of them.
When Dave Cook, manager of the Antioch
College bookstore, and now of the New
McGregor West bookstore, was asked what he
was looking for in employees he said that he
needed devoted, responsible students and that
experience handling money would not hurt.
Dave Cook also guaranteed that there would be
ample hours available, due to the fact that there
are now two understaffed book stores.
The success of the new bookstore is not
guaranteed. If Antioch College closes, so
will the bookstore and McGregor will buy its
remaining products. If the new bookstore at
McGregor does not make a profit or does not
suit the needs of McGregor West it could also
face closure. Milt Thompson seemed hopeful
for the new store’s success, and even had plans
for Antioch College bookstores at all Antioch
University campuses allowing larger orders
and cheaper prices.
Interview with
Angie Glukhov,
Director of Admis-
sions and Transfer
Services
By: Marysia Walcerz
I recently got the glamorous An-
gie Glukhov to take a break from
her rock and roll lifestyle as the
Director of Admissions and Trans-
fer Services to sit down with me
and answer a few questions about
the future of Admissions, and the
present of the Office of Transition
(conveniently located on the right
as one enters Main Building).
So, tell me a little about the cre-
ation and function of the Office
of Transition
When the decision to suspend op-
erations was announced this sum-
mer, we knew immediately that
there would be students who need-
ed to find other options. For those
students who felt it was in their
best interest to take opportunities
elsewhere, we tried to lessen the
burden of research by contacting
other colleges and gathering infor-
mation so they don’t have to. We
can broker transfer credits, call
registrars, that sort of thing so stu-
dents can focus on this not only be-
ing the best year possible, but the
best year ever at Antioch.Regard-
ing the future of Admissions,
one of the biggest catch-22s that
has come to light is the need to
recruit students and the simul-
taneous inability to do so. What
can you tell me about this?
Antioch College is a member of the
National Associate of College Ad-
missions Counseling, or NACAC.
NACAC is the governing board of
the college admissions profession,
and it’s basically the place we go
for best practices in Admissions.
To become a NACAC member,
you assert that you believe in the
potential and dignity of every hu-
man being and that the well-being
of students comes first. NACAC is
also the keeper of what we call the
Statement of Principles of Good
Practice, or the SPGP. The SGPG
is the code of ethics all members
of NACAC are bound to. And
foremost one must be honest and
forthright, which means recruit –
ing students
for an entity
that exists.
It is unethi –
cal to recruit
students for
a college that
officially will
not be opera-
tional, wheth-
er we believe
it will be op-
erational or not.
But you have begun prepara-
tions for when the decision is re-
versed?
Absolutely. Right now, my en-
visioned position is focusing on
making sure communication needs
are met for students and high
schools inquiring about Antioch.
I also have a parallel track of al-
tering our 2008 marketing plan in
conjunction with the alumni board,
the Board of Trustees, and the ad-
ministrators which will be put into
place immediately upon hearing
otherwise about the suspension. I
have been working with several
alumni board members who are
admissions professionals, particu-
larly Kristen Pett who is leading
the Alumni Board Admissions ef-
forts. Additionally, a great many
student and faculty volunteers
have come forward to say ‘I have
ideas, I have time, and I’m inter –
ested to help’. So as soon as we
have the decision, we’ll be able to
mobilize these volunteers in mean-
ingful ways.
What can we expect for the next
few weeks from the Office of
Transition?
Right now I’m working on the
transfer fair, which is so exciting
because many of my friends from
my ten years working in admis-
sions will be coming together on
campus. Everyone is very devas-
tated by what’s happening, and the
point of their coming is to help sup-
port students and make this easier,
not to steal students away. These
colleges are friends of Antioch,
they understand Antioch students
and value their experiences, and
they’re coming to campus to help
ease the burden of decision mak-
ing.
Anything else you’d like to tell
students?
Stop in! We’re here to help! And
pick up your free hoodies!
4
Rising Concern about
Struggling Library
By Alex Borowicz
The announcement of the Board of Trustees
meeting in June to suspend the operations of the
college sparked another series of serious staff cuts.
It has left the remaining members of the college
staff and faculty scrambling to cover workloads far
greater than in years past. In February, the struggling
college already had to eliminate twenty non-faculty
positions.
As Jill Becker, Associate Professor of Dance,
mentioned at the open meeting of the Board of
Trustees on Saturday, services such as housekeeping
and security have been cut, as well as the hours of
the Olive Kettering Library on campus. While the
library was formerly open Monday through Friday,
8:30am to 11:00pm, staff cuts have reduced the
available hours considerably. Students and faculty
now have to do without the library in the evenings
and Sundays.
Today, the library is staffed by four people
-two librarians and two union workers. Debra
Oswald, head librarian, is committed to keeping the
library open for the students. For now, the library
retains all of its services, albeit with more difficulty.
“We’re still covering everything, but not as well as
before,” Oswald noted. Certainly, the remaining
library employees have been stretched to far greater
duties than before, attempting to do what was a
seven-person job with only four library staffers.
“This whole library has become my office,” said
Oswald as she helped a student.
The services, however, are not guaranteed.
The contract date for OPAL, Antioch’s library
catalogue is approaching, and Oswald is optimistic
but not certain, that the Board will allow her to
renew it. Already she is not allowed to purchase
new books, though she notes that she wouldn’t
know what to purchase even if she could. “What
would my clientele be,” she asks. “Am I buying
for an undergraduate liberal arts college? We don’t
know.”
Students have quickly begun encountering
reduced services throughout the campus, and
returning students and new students alike are already
finding conflicts with the library’s operating hours.
Sandy Coulter, library assistant, is acutely aware of
the difficulties students will face if they can’t make
it to the library to study. “Students are upset,” she
says. “Most of our students don’t start working
until nine o’clock at night.” This is certainly a trend
among college students nation-wide.
First year student Liz Luczyk was
disappointed after visiting the library for the first
time. “The hours are not at all conducive for my
study habits,” she said, adding that she doesn’t like
that they’re closed on Sunday.
But there is hope for Antioch students.
“Do you want to hear how understaffed we are?”
Steven Duffy exclaimed into the phone at his ear.
“The president is going to be working in the library.
Yeah, working the front desk. Isn’t that great?”
Steve Lawry, the College President, has volunteered
to help out at the library so that it might remain open
longer. Faculty members such as Jill Becker and
Dennie Eagleson are also planning to volunteer
their time in the library.
“Everybody knows it’s untenable not to
be open in the evening,” Eagleson exclaimed of
the library during a photography class. This kind
of dedication is the cornerstone of the Antioch
experience. Faculty that care enough about their
students’ studies to sacrifice their valuable free time
to facilitate them are a rare commodity in a world
of higher education dominated by rote lectures and
disengaged learning.
Further, speaking at the Antioch
Community Meeting on Tuesday, Judy Wohlert-
Maldonado from the Village of Yellow Springs told
the community that the entire village was upset by
the fact that students’ access to the library was being
limited. In response, Wohlert-Maldonado sent “a
mass e-mail to alumni” across the country, calling
for support. In addition to this, the next village
council meeting will address the issue with an open
call to recruit village members to volunteer in the
library.
With the aid of the wider Antioch
community, students will soon be able to take
advantage of the full hours of the Olive Kettering
Library. With its 325,000 volumes, the depth and
breadth of knowledge available to students is
extensive. Even for students who have no plan to
use the library, like first-year Dustin Cornett, the
resources available are undeniable. “It’s pretty big…
compared to what I’m used to,” Cornett admitted.
Though the library’s future now seems at
least slightly more secure, other areas of the college
still remain understaffed. Some of these staff
shortages will be cushioned when students begin to
fill their Federal Work Study Program or Institutional
Work Study positions. Regardless, this historic year
for Antioch will doubtless be one of pinching and
pushing in all areas of college operations.
Sign Here Please, Continued
from p.1
Paragraph four, in particular,
(reprinted below), constituted a
source of worry, as it appeared to
be protecting the University from
any potential legal action by non-
graduating students based on a
breach of contract.
Community Government, acting
upon the advice of alumni legal
committee members, published on
Pulse a message to enjoin students
not to sign the form, which could
potentially waive their legal rights.
The possibility of signing “under
duress” was also discussed, as a
significant proportion of students
had been under the impression that
they would not receive their dorm
key if the document was not signed.
The validity of this assumption was
immediately denied by Associate
Dean of Faculty Eli Nettles, who
dismissed it as a rumor. “There’s
no conspiracy at hand here”, she
further affirmed, “The Ohio Board
of Regents told us that we needed
to make sure all of our students
were informed that the college was
closing.” Nettles then explained that
when the decision to suspend the
operations of Antioch college was
announced, the college worked on a
new walker requirement plan to let
more students have the possibility
to graduate. The plan has been
accredited by the Board of Regents,
which required for it to be distributed
to all students. “We got the language
from the Ohio Board of Regents”,
stated Nettles, “If you don’t want to
sign it, don’t sign it, I just don’t want
students to realize at the last minute
that they can’t graduate”.
Shane De Garmo, from the
Institutional Authorization Office
of the Ohio Board of Regents,
however, declared that “The Board
of Regents did not create this
document; “this is the language
that the college created.” He also
stated that the acknowledgement
form “was not a requirement” of the
Board upon which accreditation was
conditional.
This version of events was denied
by Antioch Dean of Faculty Andrzej
Bloch, who maintained: “They told
me point blank that they did not want
us to create even the impression that
the college would remain open. They
are also a kind of consumer agency
and they wanted to avoid receiving
any complaints in the future.” Bloch
then denied the idea according to
which the Acknowledgement form
would block the road to student legal
action. “Nobody can take away the
sacred right to sue”, he said with a
smile.
Bloch did confirm, however, that
the language of the form had indeed
been drafted by the University
legal council. An Ohio attorney,
who wished to remain anonymous,
suggested that the document
contained “questionable language”,
and that the document “was meant
to protect the University”. He
unofficially advised students to
refrain from signing the document,
but added that the poorly drafted
statement of acknowledgement
would “probably not hold out in
court” anyhow.
Student Acknowledgement of
suspension of operations of
Antioch College (excerpt)
4. “I understand that this
written acknowledgement
supersedes any other prior
or written statements that
may have been made to me
by any person on behalf of
Antioch University relating
in any way to my continued
enrolment or my ability to
complete the requirements to
receive a degree from Antioch
College and that no future
statements that may be made
will establish any binding
obligation on Antioch College
or Antioch University without
the express written consent of
an authorized representative
of Antioch University”
5
BOT to collaborate continued from p.1
…treasurer of the AA Rick Daily advocated in his presentation of the
Alumni Board proposal during the afternoon stakeholder session of the
BOT meeting on Saturday. In order to expedite its fundraising efforts,
the alumni association is willing to invest a portion of the money raised
so far into the operations of a revamped development office. “We can
persuade alumni to invest in development,” thinks Daily. “This money
is out there, If we let it lie, shame on us.”
In further developing its business plan, members of the alumni board are
working in collaboration with representatives of the Board of Trustees
and University administration to include benchmarks set by the trustees,
chancellor and University Leadership Council in preparation of the next
Board meeting in October. In the meantime the resolution of financial
exigency remains in place, disabling the college to actively recruit for a
class for 2008. There is no restrain, however, to prepare for recruitment,
Steve Lawry said during the Monday morning stakeholder report to the
community in Kelly Hall. Alumni Board member and former dean of
students Steve Schwerner called the Board resolution a great first step,
but reminded that it was merely a first step on the way to what has to be
done in the next months. Another member of the Alumni Board Ellen
Borgesen specifically pointed to the vague wording currently used to
describe the level of authority for the new board. Establishing an em-
powered board with far-reaching authority is seen as an essential factor
that will determine the success of a revived Antioch College.
“We need this
one.”
Stakeholders advocate in
Kentucky for survival of
Antioch College
By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans
“We are not just fighting for Antioch,
we are fighting for the institution of
tenure, for unions for liberal arts
school, for other kids who might not
go to Antioch, who might go to just
another liberal arts college that did not
close,” events manager Rory Adams
Cheatham said in an impromptu
speech during the afternoon session
of the special stakeholder meeting
with the Antioch Board of Trustees
on Saturday.
The Board decided to convene ad
hoc on August 25 and 26 following
mass nationwide outpour of support
for Antioch College that showed that
alumni and sympathizers did not take
the closing, scheduled for June 30,
2008, as a given. Skepticism about
an announced plan by the Antioch
University Board and leadership to
reopen a “state of the art” Antioch
College by 2012, united alumni in a
collective struggle unprecedented in
the history of the 155 year-old Ohio
college.
The fear of losing institutional
memory and a system of tenure after
a four year suspension period is high
on the list of concerns of faculty,
students and alumni. “I came to
Antioch having taught at Columbia,
Notre dame, Yale, Seaton hall and
Georgetown and faculty at Antioch
compare and in many ways exceed
those I’ve known anywhere,” said
Pat Mische, Lloyd Professor of Peace
Studies and World Law at Antioch
College. “Without tenured faculty we
can’t operate in a mode of academic
freedom and excellence.”
Students, faculty, representatives of
the Yellow Springs community and
alumni from across the country made
early travel arrangements to be on
time for the 9 am open meeting that
allowed them to voice their grief and
c o n c e r n s
about the
b o a r d ’ s
unexpected
decision in
June.
“In 1986
I came to
A n t i o c h
looking for
new home,
“ recalled Hassan Rachmanian. “I left
my country couldn’t go home. I
resisted staying in America, but
Antioch gave my America. The
democracy I found at Antioch is
my America. Don’t take away my
America.”
Stakeholders with various
connections to the college spoke about
the contribution of Antioch College to
their livelihood and its relevance in
US higher education today.
“The US needs Antioch,” alumnus
Larry Rubin stated from behind a
lectern facing the aligned Board
members. “The US needs a small
residential college in which faculty
and students together examine the
curriculum
content as interfaces with work
experiences and community
experiences.”
Like other stakeholders that
morning, Rubin criticized the board’s
position that suspending operations
of the college and reopening at a later
point was the only viable solution
to the situation at hand. “The fiscal
viability of this mode of education is
not based on market studies whose
methodology comes and goes,” he
said. “It is based on the proven fact
that enough people are interested in
going to an educational place whose
graduates have changes the nature of
the market. It can be sold. But you
have understand the product.”
Understanding the product and
knowing how to make others “buy it”
has been both at the center of attention
and critique towards the current board,
whose efforts to attract major donors
for the college in recent years had
fallen short
of success.
As one of
74 who just
“bought it,”
i n c o m i n g
first year
Jay Cassalli
on his
second day
at Antioch
drove down to Kentucky and took
the lectern to address the Antioch
Board of trustees. “Maybe its been a
while, but I’ll tell you some things I
love about Antioch. This place serves
vegan, vegetarian and meat at every
meal: no where else. There is a piece
of original graffiti from 1968 on the
wall in my bathroom hall that says “the
only dope worth shooting is Richard
Nixon”… If no one is interested, they
just don’t know yet. If you give my
class the chance to have this school
and keep going we’re going to do
some cool stuff.”
Two students who bought the
product two and three years ago,
stakeholders Beth Goodney and Fela
Pierrelouise were the delegates to
represent the current students during
the semi closed afternoon session in
the Holiday in. Goodney: “We chose
Antioch over other schools with
sizable endowments, greater resources
with shiny new facilities, because
we know what Antioch has to offer
in Higher education. We paid you
tuition, we have defended the college,
we have stayed in crumbling buildings
we tried to shift into changing
curriculums, we saw staff and faculty
cuts, departments disappear, I got
up at 5.30 this morning… because
Antioch is worth all of that.”
Like fellow stakeholder Judith Kitner,
who represented non unionize staff.
Goodney advocated for the allocation
of more funds to the remaining college
staff that do not receive a severance
pay like their colleagues in the Union.
With their futures insecure and the
search for a new job being a personal
priority, there is little incentive for
remaining staff to stay at the college
when presented with a new position
elsewhere tomorrow. This further
guts the level stability of services and
operations offered to students during
their last year on campus.
Others like Community Manager
Chelsea (CM) Martens stressed
structural problems in the relationship
between the college and University
governance model. “The governance
model of top down decision making
is very unantiochian. one of the
biggest faults that has been made to
the detrement of Antioch College is
the way leadership has been seen by
its leadership. […] If an institution
does not act on its values it has none.
If our very organizing structure and
leadership does not reflect what it is
to be member of Antioch community,
then that’s a core problem right
there. If we can’t manage ourselves
in a way that reflects the kind of
people we want to be in the world
we will not succees. I am aware of
the complexities of leadership, but I
don’t think I’m overly in believing in
a governing process that responds to
who it governs.”
Despite openly voiced critique
of the board’s governing processes,
the tone of conversation at the
meeting was one of respect and
outreach for collaboration. Speakers
urged the Board to reconsider its
decision in light of new facts and
current momentum to turn the ship
around. Many expressed support for
the proposal for Governance and
Fundraising the Alumni Association
presented in the afternoon session.
“We have proven ourselves to be
worthy of collaboration,” Pat Mische
said on Monday following the press
release announcing collaboration
between the BOT and ALumni Board
Association. “We did, because it’s
happening.”
Interview with
Andrzej Bloch
Continued from p.1
By Sarah Buckingham
Andrzej Bloch came to Antioch
25 years ago as an assistant
professor of Economics and
soon attained the position of full
professor. In 1985, he got involved
in international education and
became academic coordinator to
one of the Great Lakes College
Association (GLCA) programs.
After directing two study-abroad
programs, Andrzej was appointed
associate dean of faculty, and was
eventually asked to assume the role
of director of Antioch Education
Abroad in 1997. “Fundamentally,
from that time on, I was part-time
in the classroom, and directing
AEA,” Bloch recalls. “It was
about two years ago when they
asked me to become interim dean
of faculty.” Continues his work as
the director of AEA, he currently
remains in his position as acting
dean of faculty.
As such, Bloch expressed that he
assumed that he would step up to
fill the office of the president of
Antioch College in the event that
the office were to become vacant.
“Steve told me before he decided
to step down. I had a meeting
with Chancellor Murdoch and she
asked me to fill in his place. I came
back from vacation and talked
to Steve, and we are acting like I
am replacing him. Have I talked
to anyone about it? No, but I am
assuming. The official function of
the dean of faculty is to step in if
the president should leave,” Bloch
said. “I was surprised that Steve
was leaving but I do understand
his motives.”
Generally, what is a college
president’s role? How is
it different for an Antioch
president?
“The role of the president is
essentially to be a person who
represents a college to the outside
world but at the same time
provides leadership. As far as
Antioch College is concerned, the
big difference in the role of the
president is the President of Antioch
College must also be a leader to
the community, participate in our
governance system, really assume
the position of the leader, not only
on the outside, but for the whole
community. It is probably quite
different on other campuses.”
Can you discuss how you see
your role as future interim
president, under these
unusual circumstances?
“My role is relatively limited,
I would just carry on the
responsibilities I have right now.
In the situation we have right
now, officially we are under the
declaration of suspension, and I
wish the initiative we have started
will change that. But until it is
changed, we are still under those
conditions. I support the efforts
of alumni and others, you name it
and I am very much sympathizing
with it. My role is, number one, to
protect the interests of students so
they can complete their degrees,
that is fundamentally my role and
will not change. My other role is
to provide as much support for
faculty as possible and then there’s
a third area, which becomes very
evident to me right now, should
the course of action be as it is,
we need to take care of the assets.
Somebody has to really watch
and insure that the property of the
college is taken care of.”
“The president of Antioch
must also be a leader to our
community, participate in
our governance system”
It seems that in the past many
people in our community
have seen the President’s role
to be fundamentally about
fundraising. Do you plan to
put efforts toward raising
funds as Interim President?
There is a possibility that the
alumni will raise money and the
entire effort of fundraising would
be on the shoulders of them and
if anything could be done to
support them I would do that. I
know right now the alumni have
a great working relationship with
the university administration.
They have made all the numbers
available. I really hope it’s going
to work. I’ve seen a draft of
the business plan; they are very
ambitious. If they can accomplish
fifty percent of what they want to
accomplish we would be saved.
I am really very optimistic. Let’s
wait those two months and see
what’s going to happen.
If the college remains open,
will you continue to hold the
interim president position
until the a new president has
been hired?
The new board would select the
new president and I’m assuming
that’s one of the first decisions they
would make, they need to have
leadership. Under circumstances
like these it is really best for those
who were here to step back.
Do you have any thoughts
on the high rate of turnover
we have experienced in the
recent past (five different
presidents and acting or
interim presidents since 1994
– each averaging two years.)
It’s not a good thing. Ever since
Al Guskin left the presidency there
was something not right; there
was something happening that
was indicative of some problems.
My feeling is that in this particular
case it is much more a function of
a particular condition the college
is in; the system of governance
and probably impossible tasks the
president is given. We have been
struggling since the 1970s, and
there were different periods, and it
was always a struggle. I came 25
years ago and I can’t remember a
year when we met the enrollment
projections. Maybe two years we
were very close. Doesn’t that tell
you something? Every year it was
a struggle and the budget had to
be adjusted. That is indicative of
something.
So that’s one thing, the other
thing, believe me I thought about
it quite a bit, there is something
happening on the national scene
that makes me a little concerned.
The place of liberal arts colleges
has been shifting in the last few
decades. What is the liberal arts
college of the future? Is there a
liberal arts college of the future? I
would not be surprised if our fate
is very much a part of that national
trend. We might be on the edge
and we might be affected by the
national crisis more. I was talking
to Deans at Oberlin and Kenyon,
colleges with huge endowments,
and they were concerned about
budget cuts, they were eliminating
full-time faculty.
“ If they can accomplish
50% of what they want
to accomplish, we would
be saved. I am really very
optimistic”
The other thing, if you
really look at the university
administration, including all the
presidents, there seems to be a
faster turnover. There are only a
few distinctive institutions with
long-term presidents. People are
moving around at five to six year
intervals. It is happening. I don’t
believe we were affected by the
last one, but deeper structural
crisis. It is difficult to attract a
president who comes with the
vision, commitment, and talent to
make change if that president is
not the real president, but has to
respond to someone else. Maybe
at different institutions, but not at
a liberal arts college.
7
Postcard
from
Co-Op
By Paige Clifton-Steele
Dedicated to Prexy Nesbitt, for
keeping my butt alive
The date of depar –
ture draws near, and my
passport, for which I applied three
months in advance, fails to arrive.
Calling the Department of State
only lands me in voicejail. I pes-
ter my local congressman, whose
kindly-sounding office ladies as-
sure me that they’re writing stern
words on my behalf. Listening to
them, I imagine a flurry of limp,
kindly-sounding emails. I do not
count on them.
The government has decided that
travelers to Mexico and Canada
must have passports, and under –
estimated the surge in demand.
Across the country, people are get-
ting their passports one, two days
before their trips, or not at all. Lines
at the passport office in DC begin
at 4:30 in the morning. Mean-
while, public transportation—my
only kind—starts at 7 AM. So
three days before my plane leaves,
I pack my sleeping bag and head
into town to bed down in front of
the office.
“It’ s my first full day in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
and my first day of my first
co-op”
I have an interesting conversation
with a gay, interracial, and slightly
crazy homeless couple. One of
them is dopy and drug-addled with
a crooked nose ring that droops
out of one nostril like a booger.
His soulful eyes wobble. He wants
to engage me in a conversation
about brotherhood among men.
Sober and unsentimental, his part-
ner keeps drags him away from me
and chastises him. “Shame on you
and your nonsense, that nice girl
needs to sleep!” Meanwhile, he
grows ever more strident in com-
plaining about the plunge their
relationship has taken lately. If his
partner loved him, would he re-
ally treat him like this? Would he?
Would he?
I suggest that I am totally un-
qualified to arbitrate the burgeon-
ing dispute. I fall asleep to the
sound of the one partner’s piercing
accusations and the other’s cool
replies.
The morning of the second day
before I am scheduled to fly, I am
the first person in line. Still, I wait
for seven hours in line and the of-
fice tells me to come back tomor –
row. One day before I am sched-
uled to fly, the passport office mints
me a new passport on-site; the one
delivered to me is still in transit
in Pennsylvania (it will later ar –
rive three days after I have left the
country). The passport photos that
I have taken that day are haggard. I
look precisely like I’ve just spent a
night sleeping on a DC sidewalk.
***
Fast-forward a month of travel-
ling through Southeast Asia, and I
step off a plane in Johannesburg,
South Africa. I stow my stuff, meet
some women at the hostel, and ar-
range to go out to dinner with
them. Half a block from the restau-
rant and five hours off the plane, I
get mugged.
Most of my money is safely hid-
den. But Mom advised me to keep
my passport on me at all times, and
so it is lost–the only thing of value
taken from me. The next day I go
to the consulate, make some more
passport photos, and acquire a new
passport in four hours. My photos
looked exactly as though I’ve just
been mugged at gunpoint on a Jo-
hannesburg street.
***
Fast-forward another month, and
it’s my first full day in Dar es Sa-
laam, Tanzania, and my first day of
my first co-op job.
Hanif, the owner of the company,
asks me if I knew anything about
lighting. “Nothing,” I say, but he
is already handing me the camera.
“On, off, shoot, show,” he explains,
pointing here and here and here.
We are in the studio and the model
is on site, looking even more be-
wildered than I. He is a young man
in rumpled dress shirt, with doe
eyes and an overnice command of
English that lead him to say things
like “Hanif is going to rectify the
computer”. Hanif abandons us
alone together in the studio.
I slink uneasily through the forest
of boom lights and reflectors and
illuminated umbrellas on stilts,
pausing sometimes to adjust them
as if I know what I’m doing. I
work hard to put the model at ease
while I hunt for the ‘shoot’ button.
I asked him to tell me a joke and
he obliges. The punchline doesn’t
make any sense to me, but I laugh
anyways, mostly in relief. I’ve
found the button.
The photo shoot is for a series of
billboards that the company is pro-
ducing encouraging Tanzanians to
take advantage of free HIV testing
at a local clinic. It features promi-
nent members of the community
looking happily into the camera, as
if they’ve just received good news,
or else have an impressively devil-
may-care disdain for the bad. It
is hard to get my model to smile.
All too often, his pictures look as
though he’s just been delivered a
death sentence.
“My photos look exactly
as though I’ve just been
mugged at gunpoint on a
Johannesburg street”
But something that I ask sets him
off. He has a story; an honest, epic,
tragicomic, NPR-worthy story. He
went to Britain, he says. He was
bored one day and he wandered
into a recruiter’s office. He was
entranced by the feeling of the gun
they put in his arms. He signed up;
they sent him to Iraq. There was
therapy afterwards, and a coming-
to-terms, but his brothers-in-arms
are still his brothers. Then the sto-
ry’s sequence devolves: he had his
first kiss, and breathed a rarefied
air for a week afterwards. He grew
up sheltered, and become disen-
chanted at twenty when he real-
ized that life was not a fairy tale
and he very likely wasn’t going to
meet the perfect woman and live
the perfect life.
Mostly I forget to take pictures
during this time. When I am done,
I judge the photos passable. I am
wrong.
As soon as Hanif takes look at
them, he calls me into the studio
to hold a reflector panel while he
shoot, one after the next after the
next, ignoring the model’s discom-
fort, the camera sputtering through
its reel like a gatling gun.
Antiochians Abroad
8
Antiochians Abroad
Maasai
Marathon
By Edward Perkins
Water is the most precious resource, that vital
liquid upon which all life depends. Most of us
take it for granted. We only have to turn a tap
to access clean drinking water. For many other
people around the world obtaining water is
simply a matter of filling up containers at the
community tap, or purchasing containers from
a local shop. For the people of Elaui village
in northern Tanzania, however, water is a
different story. There is no central water system
piping fresh water into people’s homes. There
are no shops selling bottled water, and there is
no community tap, for there is no fresh water
around to warrant such a tap’s existence. As a
consequence of the brown ground water which
is the only drinking water available, two out of
every three children in the village die before
the age of five.
“The Maasai students were
surprised and curious to learn that
in places like New York and London
people can raise enormous sums of
money for charity simply by running
in marathons.”
Co-oping in Dar Es Salaam, a city of three
million on Tanzania’s Swahili-speaking and
predominantly Muslim tropical coast, I was
twelve hours from Elaui by land, but worlds apart
in terms of culture and lifestyle. The people of
Elaui are Maasai, one of the last African tribes
to retain their cultural identity. They live off
the harsh landscape, traveling long distances to
graze their cattle and goats, following a way of
existence virtually unchanged for thousands of
years.
These proud and beautiful people, generally
tall and lean, are known around the world for
their distinctive red robes and beaded jewelry,
bravery as warriors, and athleticism. During
traditional dances, Maasai will jump as high
as four feet. The Maasai are also acclaimed
runners, and for generations have been covering
vast distances of rugged African savannah on
foot, often with little or no water.
A fellow Antioch student and good friend,
Mandela Freiberg, was volunteering in Elaui
teaching English at the same time I was in
Dar Es Salaam. I decided to visit Mandela one
weekend. We met in Arusha, the closest ‘city’
to Elaui. It was during this visit that I first
became acquainted with Maasai from Elaui.
Through Isaya Lukume, a charismatic young
warrior, and one of a handful of Maasai who
speak English, I learned about the village and
its struggle for water. Through Isaya, I also
learned about the Maasai Marathon project, a
daring and clever plan six young warriors had
created to save the people of Elaui.
The environmental and social non-profit
organization Greenforce, based in the UK, sends
volunteers to various sights around the world.
Paul Robert Martin ended up in Elaui teaching
English through a Greenforce program. The
Maasai came to nickname Paul ‘Soldier Bob’,
a reference to his middle name but also a sign
of respect and acceptance into the community.
During one English lesson, the word marathon
came up. The Maasai students were surprised
and curious to learn that in places like New
York and London people can raise enormous
sums of money for charity simply by running
in marathons. Before long, a group of young
Maasai warriors approached ‘Soldier Bob’ with
a plan to run in the London marathon. Paul
was intrigued, and asked why they wanted to
run. Without hesitation, six determined voices
answered in unison “for clean water!” and the
Maasai Marathon project was born.
In April of 2008, six Maasai warriors will leave
their homeland for the first time. They will
travel to Kilimanjaro, were they will board a
plane for the distant land of England. They will
run the 42.195 km (26 miles and 385 yards)
race in traditional Maasai clothing, complete
with shields, sticks, and sandals made from
discarded motorcycle tires. They have been
granted seven free places in the marathon (six
for the Maasai and one for Paul Martin who will
run with them) and for the first time in history
a special dispensation has been issued allowing
the Maasai to run without wearing numbers, in
order to maintain their cultural integrity.
It is important not to underestimate the
difficulties this project has to face. In order to
drill one bore hole water well, the runners have
to raise over $40,000 USD. Donations have
started coming in via the Greenforce website,
but much more help is needed. I have written
an article about the project for a magazine my
co-op job produces, and hope that through the
Record I can give further exposure to this truly
commendable and vital project. The people of
Elaui are not asking for handouts. They are
not sitting around waiting to be rescued. On
the contrary, they have devised a pro-active
solution to their most pressing problem. They
are not asking for help, but they are grateful
to receive any assistance and support willing
volunteers and contributors can provide.
To learn more, contribute, or see photos and video, please visit:
“http://www.greenforce.org/maasai_marathon/” http://www.greenforce.org/maasai_
marathon/, or look for the Maasai Marathon group on Facebook.
To view video on YouTube:
“http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Maasai%20
marathon&search=Search” http://www.youtube.com/results?search_
query=Maasai%20marathon&search=Search 9
“They make
plans, we
make History”
33rd G8 Summit held in
Rostock, Germany
By Jeanne Kay
“Ya basta! It’s
enough! Another world is
possible!” As I scan the innumer-
able websites organizing the anti-
G8 mobilization, the familiar alter-
globalization rallying cries remind
me that I am on friendly ground.
Yet the somewhat sketchy infor –
mation about the camps, transpor –
tation and events is not easy to find
online even when one knows how
to follow the white rabbit. Will
there be enough space? Rides to
the events? Showers and Internet
access at the camp? No one really
know but there’ll be (vegan, fair-
trade) food and water, so there is
no need to worry.
After Genoa, Evian, Gleneagles
and Strelna, the leaders of the coun-
tries that are part of the exclusive
G8 club are meeting in the little
town of Heilidengamm, Germany.
And as for the previous years, pro-
test against the meeting is mas-
sive. “We do not want these self-
appointed rulers of the world here
or anywhere else,” says the state-
ment for the International Mass
Demonstration planned for June
2nd. Several tens of thousands of
demonstrators from all round Eu-
rope are expected to make the trip
to the Baltic Sea.
Strategies vary according to the
degree of radicalism of the orga-
nizing group: several demonstra-
tions are planned, but also a Social
Forum-type alternative summit,
and a downright blockade of the
Summit itself. It will not be easy,
though, as a 12 km long steel
wall has been built around Heil-
idengamm just for the occasion,
and more than 15,000 policemen
are mobilized.
It’s not hard to recognize the peo-
ple who are going to the G8 camp
on the train that crosses North-
East Germany from Berlin to
Rostock: they look like a bunch of
Antiochians. The word goes that
they think they can deter us from
coming en masse if they choose
remote places for these meetings,
like foggy Scottish villages or in-
dustrial towns on the Baltic Sea.
Yet I still have to sit the floor as
the train compartment fills up at
each station.
“The system is a joke, all
they feed us is Coke!”
In Rostock, the chalk-drawn
arrows on the asphalt guide the
protestors from the tramway sta-
tion to the camp. Large Card-
board signs greet us: Welcome to
Camp Rostock, Police and Fascist
Groups Not Allowed. V olunteers
are welcoming the newcomers at
the information point; access to
the camp is free, a donation of 5
Euros per day is recommended.
My ultra-confidential map in hand,
(not to be distributed outside the
camp at any cost), I walk down
Rosa Luxembourg Alley trying to
find a place for my tent. Some or –
ganizations have allotted spaces,
such as Greenpeace or the German
Anarchist Federation, and most of
their main tents bare “NO PHO-
TOS” signs. I do not need to show
my member card to install my tent
in the ATTAC area.
The first camp gathering in the
big circus tent resembles a huge
Community Meeting, except with-
out the ice cream. Principles for
discussion and democratic deci-
sion making are put in place, a so-
phisticated sign language system
is adopted to facilitate communi-
cation in large group discussions,
and volunteers are called for dif-
ferent tasks. Sitting on the muddy
hay, I volunteer as a translator in
the french-speaking group, as the
assembly is language-divided. The
organizers emphasize the need to
support the team watching con-
stantly over the camp. We can be
infiltrated at any time, they tell us,
by the police or neo-nazi fascist
groups that are gathering for
a demonstration the next day. Be
prepared to gather at any time of
the day and night in case of an
alert.
At the dining space, at the end of
Carlo Giuliani Lane, a few wooden
tables are set up on the lawn. Free
vegan dinners are served to the
protestors who sit on the grass and
mingle, their reusable plates on
their lap. There are baskets on the
tables to drop donations, and vol-
unteers are washing the dishes in a
corner. The camp is starting to fill
up, and as the night falls an excited
murmur arises from the camp.
On the next day, a pilgrimage-
looking crowd walks toward the
tramway station a mile away from
the camp. At the Rostock cen-
tral station, rows of policemen in
green watch silently as a uniform
mass of protestors makes its way
towards the exits, slogans bounc-
ing loudly against the grey walls.
Outside, the crowd is gathering
on the main square, around a stage
bearing the words Another World
is Possible. Multicoloured flags
are flying around and creative
hand-made banners cry out their
revolutionary messages: “Your
words don’t feed the world”, “The
system is a joke, all they feed us
is coke!”,“Solidarity not Precar –
ity”. Others have more precise de-
mands: “US out of Iraq”, or “Pub-
lic Control for World Bank, WTO
and IMF”. Groups are gathered
and sing in unison, while others
improvise dance routines. Looking
up, one can see a helicopter over –
looking the scene.
The cortege starts moving almost
on time. Standing on the side, I
watch as 90.000 people walk past
me: paper giants on stilts, carboard
faces, bras tied to floating balloons
are among the most creative parts
of the cortege. atmosphere of cel-
ebration changes radically as ten-
sion builds up. Demonstrators are
now all in black, with ski masks
and sunglasses. They are walking
as though in military formation,
in tight rows forming compact
squares. A few explosions can al-
ready be heard in the surrounding
alleys and smoke is filling the air.
As I make my way to the docks,
the final meeting point of the dem-
onstration, I pass by a truck blow-
ing out multicolored bubbles in the
wind. Two young hooded alter-
globalists are standing on the roof,
and their song is going: “They
make plans we make history.”
Alterglobalists at the International Demonstration contesting
the legitimacy of the G8; Rostock, June 2nd 2007
We know what you did last summer…
10
Antioch Students
Attend SDS Revival
Convention
By Jessica Rapchik
and Rachel Smith
This Summer, Detroit, Michigan hosted the
second national convention of Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) since 1969. Between
July 27-31 at Wayne State University, nearly
600 students from around the country converged
for four days of workshops on direct action
tactics, communicating effectively, high school
organizing, and media and facilitation trainings
around the infamous student organization of
the 60’s.
In an attempt to procure a national structure
that would provide more transparency and stress
accountability within the recently revived SDS,
the Antioch delegation Aimee Keener, Rachel
Smith, Lowen Gordon, and Jessica Rapchik, sat
through fifteen hours of mediated discussion a
day.
Up until the last national convention, the
structure of SDS was loosely connected, but
effective. Hundreds of autonomous chapters
across the country engage in actions that range
from militant direct actions to petition drives.
With the new national structure essentially
little has changed. The new status quo requires
ratification from three fourth of the chapters
to adopt agreements for dates of actions and
provides a process for calling for national
solidarity, still leaving chapters to execute
actions and determine the issues that they
find important to organize around. This year’s
convention saw the creation
of several auxiliaries and
attendees decided upon
a process for chapter
representation on a national
level.
Despite long hours crammed
into an auditorium, Antioch
College SDSers attending the
conference made it a point to
inform other students about
the tentative suspension of
operations at Antioch and
have fun after the plenaries
were over.
On the first day of the
Convention, each chapter
had the opportunity to describe their actions
and accomplishments over the course of the last
year. Jessica Rapchik took the stage to highlight
the successes Antioch
College SDSs have
booked, as well as
the historical legacy
of the College
within the sixties
movement. Pleading
for assistance in the
national struggle
around the uncertain
future of Antioch
College, she invited
the crowd of 600
activists to visit
antiochians.org and
join the movement
to keep the Ohio
school with a vibrant history in activism from
closing in 2008. A number of students pledged
their solidarity, others offered their resources,
and determined to visit campus in order to
display bodied solidarity. Regardless of its size,
Antioch is a prominent name in the new SDS
movement.
As an example of this, the Antioch College
Sexual Prevention Policy (SOPP) was used to
shape “The Manifesta of Consent” the Women’s
Auxiliary adopted during the Convention.
“I really felt empowered by this convention,”
said Rachel Smith, a third year at Antioch who
attended the full meeting.”SDS’ers are on top
of their organizing and they are really able to
display solidarity and think critically about the
issues that affect us instead of skimming the
surface like most radicals tend to do.”
Reflecting on Michael Albert’s speech at the
end of the convention, Aimee Keener, stated, “I
really liked Michael Albert’s speech.
He definitely praised us for the way that we
get along as opposed to how the old SDS
functioned. That term that he used, ‘taking it to
the mattress,’ which meant putting mattresses
against the wall to stop the bullets from coming
through, was a great analogy for how violently
differences were handled. He said that the new
SDS is able to respect each others’ differences
without taking it to the mattress.”
Albert stated several times during the
convention that there have always been
fundamental differences between students
of differing ideological strains in SDS that
could often prove to be very contentious and
could potentially limit our effectiveness. He
stated that the original SDS would repeatedly
win battles, but when it came to larger goals,
it would crumple. “The new SDS may fail
repeatedly during its initial movement-building
displays,” he explains, “but it differs from the
old SDS in that we’re not organizing from the
counter-culture, which means that we have to
organize from general society, and also that we
recognize that we are in this movement for a
long term revolutionary struggle.”
It is this fundamental difference that directs
SDS’s organizing. Instead of quibbling over
tactics, the SDSers of today are able to unite
on a common vision and strategy. Anarchists,
communists, and liberals were able to sit in a
crowded auditorium for fifteen hours and leave
with high spirits, plans for action, and unlimited
support.
SDS at Antioch College meets regularly and
should have an announcement pertaining to
its first meeting on First Class within the next
week. Antioch College SDS can be contacted at
sdsantioch@yahoo.com.
White privilege discussion group at the 2007 SDS Convention
…2nd Years on their summer “vacation”
Four Antioch Students attend convention in Detroit
11
Doin’ It” without
“Doin’ It”
(I promise this isn’t an abstinence-only
piece)
By Levi B. Cowperthwaite
What activity comes to mind
when you hear the word “sex”?
For most people, I would venture
to guess, thoughts turn to some
form of traditional penile-vaginal
intercourse, or at least a healthy
dose of very intimate and probably
unclothed touching, when primed
with the “s” word. Is that all there
is to sex, though? Of course not,
and for some people, that sort of
sex isn’t practical or desirable.
Why not? Well, let’s consider some
possibilities: perhaps you don’t have
a great deal of sexual experience (or
any at all), and you don’t feel ready
to make your body that vulnerable
to another person (or people), or
maybe you have other reasons
for not wanting to be physically
intimate with another person (or
people); perhaps you or a partner
have an STI and don’t feel confident
using barriers for protection; maybe
you and your partner(s) find you’re
having the same perfunctory sex a
couple of times a week and you want
to try something new; maybe you and
your lover(s) are separated by co-op
and want to find sexual fulfilment
across the miles. Whatever the
reason, doin’ it without doin’ it can
be sexy, satisfying, and fun. Here are
some suggestions for you to try at
home or wherever you do it:
-Write and exchange erotic stories
with your partner(s). Describe your
own sexual fantasy or elaborate
on a partner’s sexual fantasy.
Exchange stories in person or leave
it in a surprise location, like in their
pajama pocket or under their
pillow. Be careful with anything
written, however, as you don’t want
it to end up in the wrong hands. It’s
best not to leave erotic stories or
suggestive notes in a lover’s pants
or jacket pocket if they’re heading
off to work, for example.
-Make an X-rated video or photo
album (using your digital camera
and personal printer, of course) for
your lover starring YOU! Again, be
careful that these things don’t end
up in the wrong hands, especially
in the event of a less-than-friendly
parting. When in doubt, follow a
view-once-and-destroy rule.
-Have phone sex. For me, hearing a
partner’s voice (their noises, words,
etc.) is one of the best parts of sex,
so any event highlighting the vocal
really turns me on.
-Have cyber sex. You use the
computer for work, school, games,
shopping, a date book, and to keep
in touch with friends and family,
why not use it to enhance your sex
life, as well?
-T wo words: mutual masturbation.
Pleasure yourself in the presence
of your partner(s) while they do the
same. You can watch and listen and
you know it will feel good because
you are your own best lover. Be
careful to keep a safe distance
during this one in order to prevent
the accidental exchange of fluids.
-Masturbate with an article of your
lover’s clothing (with their consent,
of course). Use a dirty shirt infused
with your lover’s scent or a clean pair
of underwear that you can imagine
being close to their “goodies.” This
is a fun experiment in texture, too.
-Dance. Go to a party or a club
and grind up on your partner(s) in
the middle of the dance floor. This
is especially fun if you have some
voyeuristic tendencies.
-Find the quirky things that turn
you on. For me, geeking out on social
theory with an academic cutie is
almost better than sex (almost). What
does it for you? Reading abstinence-
only curriculum, perhaps?
-Be creative. The list that I’ve
provided is far from exhaustive.
Use your own ideas and creativity.
A good friend of mine, for example,
likes to dress people up as robots
and tell them what to do. You might
laugh, but it’s what works for her.
I’m sure that all of you have some
inventive ideas for doin’ it without
doin’ it. Don’t be afraid to try
something new, and if you come up
with something good, be sure to let
me know!
Lusting for You,
Levi B.
P .S. If you hadn’t guessed by now, I’m
Levi B., your friendly community sex-
advice columnist. Y ou can submit your
sex questions to me via email (ecowpert@
antioch-college.edu or Levi Cowperthwaite
on First Class) or an anonymous note
slipped under the Record office door or
placed in the Declassifieds box during
Community Meeting, T uesdays at 3:00 in
McGregor 113. I don’t believe that any
sex or sexuality-related question is silly or
strange, so ask away, Antioch! I’m looking
forward to it!
Lust With Levi
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First Impressions
Incoming class react on their first week at Antioch
By Ben Horlacher
Between mandatory meetings, the Sexual Offense Prevention Policy,
the Racial Discrimination Prevention Policy, partying, registration,
going to class, and trying to keep the school open, the first week at
Antioch College has been a baptism by fire for the first years.
Students arrived for orientation and move-in on Thursday, the 23rd.
They were given an eleven item check list, and went from station to
station getting room keys, filling out paper work, and being handed
bags of free stuff. Carmen Atlee-Loudon described her first impression
of Antioch College as “slightly disorganized but really welcoming.”
When Gina Potestio, arrived at Antioch her first thought was “this
is going to be interesting”. Eric Kobernik’s first impression of the
college was “hardcore.”
After the first day came the mandatory meetings scheduled back-
to-back, sending students from one building to another. Friday was
the most tightly scheduled, with both the SOPP and RDPP meetings
being held that morning. First years were anything but overwhelmed
with the myriad activities planned for them. “I was stoked to do
everything; that’s why I came here,” said Kobernik.
That evening a community gathering was held to prepare for the
Board of Trustees meeting, and at six o’clock in the morning the next
day students, alumni, and villagers gathered outside of Antioch Hall
to join the caravan to Cincinatti. Among the students who woke up
early that Saturday morning, there were more then a few first years, a
number of which also had the opportunity to address the board at the
morning meeting.
“It was one of the most amazing demonstrations of solidarity among
a group of individuals that I had ever seen,” said Jay Casale, one of
the first years who spoke to the board on Saturday, “It struck a really
deep chord in me.”
The effort to keep Antioch open was very visible to all the first
years.Some even felt a little lost in the hustle and bustle surrounding
the issue. “It was kind of overwhelming, in the way that you want
to get involved but you’re not really sure what to do,” said Atlee-
Loudon.
While stopping the college in which you just enrolled from
closing is not the normal freshman concern, fitting in is, although
first-years at Antioch seemed to be taking that in stride. First years
were being shuffled around together, and had plenty of time to
socialize, something they found easy, because, as Atlee-Loudon
put it, “everyone is so welcoming and friendly that it easy to start
conversations.” Even socializing with the upperclassmen (usually
represented as big and scary in cliché) came easily to the members of
the entering class. “[at Antioch] they want to be your friend, in other
schools upperclassmen shit on the freshmen, [but] here it is much
more social,” said Kobernik.
Maybe the biggest challenge posed to the class of 2011 is answering
the question “Why did you come to a school that you were told would
be closing in a year?” This year’s entering class is here to make the
most of this year and do everything that is quintessentially Antioch.
Students want to get in their last walks in the Glen, engage with the
SOPP and RDPP, attend Board meetings, and take advantage of their
classes. The climate of solidarity on campus and the exceptional
community mobilization since the June announcement might also
have weighed in the balance.
As Eric Kobernik put it some students
are here because of the closing, and they might not have had a shot at
such an exhilarating orientation anywhere else.
Orientation team
welcomes new
students to Antioch
By Jeanne Kay
8 AM in Main Building’s front hall.
Students, faculty and staff all wearing –more or
less customized—black Antioch t-shirts are running
around carrying giant ice cube packs, last-minute
flyers, and signs bearing the words: Orientation
This Way. Anticipation is palpable; the number of
students who decided to enrol at Antioch “despite
it all” is a source of amazement to many. “They are
welcomed with open arms, we want to make them
feel we are unified as a student body”, commented
Shea Witzberger, 2
nd Year Student part of the
Orientation Team. Few had predicted such a large
turnout, and 20 supplemental welcome packages had
to be prepared at the last minute. In fact, said Angie
Glukhov, Director of Admissions, the numbers had
changed every day up to the very last hours; “We
got a student who called us yesterday telling us they
were coming today”.
This unexpectedly large incoming first
year class—75 according to the most recent count–
could hardly have been expected when the news of
Antioch’s suspension of operations came out in June.
“We tried to contact students immediately, but it was
a difficult process”, recalled Glukhov. Dealing with
bewildered, shocked or angry prospective students,
parents, and high school guidance counsellors is a
task that the Admissions/Office of Transition staff
has had to face heads on this summer, being the
primary contact for all complaints and inquiries.
Regardless, the Orientation committee
eventually resumed the task it had started in
December. “We had been ahead of schedule, but
when the announcement broke out we stopped in our
tracks for a while”, commented Eli Nettles, Chair of
the Orientation Committee. A few accommodations
had to be made to adapt to the situation. Orientation
was moved from the South Gym to Main Building
in order to make it more comfortable to a shrunken
number of incoming students. For the most part,
however, the pre-unravelling plans—such as the
goodies bags– were kept in place.
Last year’s Orientation was soon re-
baptized “Disorientation” in reference to the
overwhelming amount of information that was
poured on the incoming first years at the time. Yet
this year, the planning seemed to be lighter. “It was
very important to me for students to have free time
to breathe in between the Orientation activities”,
emphasized Nettles. Moreover, several traditional
parts of the orientation schedule, such as the math
and writing evaluations or the introduction to co-op
communities, have been cancelled due to the current
situation of the college.
Community Government’s involvement in
Orientation has been greater than in previous years.
“We originally decided to take on more work
because we thought we would have more time in
the summer with no students on campus”, explained
Community Manager Chelsea Martens, “of course
with the June announcement it didn’t turn out to be
that way”. Nonetheless, CG remained an integral
part of the Orientation Committee; prompted by
Counselling Center Director Linda Sattem, they
organized the distribution of Antioch canvas bags
containing notably the new and updated Survival
Guide. “We aimed to provide new students with an
introduction to Antioch on a more personal level”,
stressed Martens, “We also wanted to make sure we
bridged the infamous gap between first years and
upperclassmen”.
Although the decisive involvement of first year
students at the morning session of the Cincinnati
Board of Trustees meeting of the 25
th was a cause of
admiration to the rest of the Antioch Community, it
was not encouraged by the Orientation Committee.
Rory Adams-Cheatham, Community Events
Managers recalls that proposals to include a trip to the
Cincinnati meeting and a potluck with alumni to the
orientation schedule were rejected by the committee.
“There was concern that incoming students would
feel pressured to get involved in the efforts to save
Antioch” explained Adams-Cheatham. The fact that
despite having a full-packed activity scheduled on
Saturday, as many first years spontaneously chose
to wake
up at dawn to tell the BOT how they felt
about Antioch is testimonial to the success of the
Orientation team in introducing the students to their
new college.
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Declassifieds
Dear Michael & Shauna
Thanks for being amazing!!
Drunk people do not equal
fair game. Please watch
your hands
Energetic
Musical
Magical
Amusing
Katrina U Make me happy!
Bonner LOVE!!
Yoga and healing-
Just ask Jack
Hickey Boogney,
Your love is like a river
peaceful and deep
Thanks 4 holdin it down
Dear Rory,
We can M.L. as long as
you don’t vom.
love, Sam
Gabriella Ruiz are we still
friends?
[heart] your platonic life
partner
All returning 4th and
3rd years, you’re amaz-
ing! Keep holding it down!
[heart Ruthie]
Go on a walk in the glen
Dear Meghan Pergrem, I
think you are the hottest
girl on campus. Way hotter
than Nicole Bayani.
[heart] Rory
You’re the Plas I want to
be [heart] one half an in-
tense friend
Thanks caf staff for feed-
ing us!
Thank you Antioch for be-
ing here. More important
thank you Antioch students
and faculty for being here
Julie you are my bear and
twin
Sorry I’m so awkward.
I have no idea what the
deal is. Either way you’re
too cute for words. I can
hardly even talk to you
Emma Woo,
Great job at the empori-
um. You’re a beautiful song
bird. [heart] V
Rory & Meghan
I love you.
No Seriously.
love, Nicole
Girl with the guns: Back
again, eh? Couldn’t be
happier to see you. love,
Cowboy boots
Loving you is easy cause
you’re beautiful
Do Do Do Do oh…
Thank you Ed for being
such an amazing friend
while we were in Tanzania
What are the squirrels
thinking?
Anonymous squirrel lover
[heart]
Thank you for coming back!
You’re all beautiful!
Dispatches from
Community
Meeting
By Diana Starkweather
Beginning with applause and admiration
for literally every one on, around,
and off campus, and ending in voiced
disappointment over the cutbacks on hot
breakfast, this year’s first community
meeting covered a lot of ground in a little
time (sort of). McGregor 113, filled with
a lot of old faces, and several new ones,
was immersed in applause and a recurring
sense of Antioch pride every few minutes,
which helped to lead to its lengthy two hour
session.
The traditional Community Member
of the Week award was revised to honor
a Community Member of the Summer
instead. This award went out to all faculty
and staff that were here during the summer,
working hard on efforts to keep the college
open among other things, despite setbacks.
This was followed by a long list of thank
yous, many of which had a familiar theme
and were directed at those helping to keep
Antioch open. Alex Mette thanked
everyone who attended the Board of
Trustees meeting on Monday, reflecting
that beforehand he felt like there was
little hope, but after seeing the amount of
support, he was energized and his belief
in a positive outcome for the college
was reaffirmed. First years attending the
meeting were also thanked for speaking out
in front of the Board of Trustees, and for
having the knowledge of what is happening
to Antioch.
Community members and CG received
a standing ovation for their efforts this
summer, and special thanks went out to
alumni, and the Village of Yellow Springs
Committee for their banners throughout
town and articles in the local newspaper.
Organizers of the SOPP and the RDPP
were thanked, along with those offering
help to the Office of Transition. And Kari
Thompson thanked anyone who has danced
at a dance party.
What 1st years need to
know
By Diana Starkweather
AdCil (Administrative Council) meets ev-
ery Tuesday at 8am in the Main Building
Conference Room, and is made up of stu-
dent, staff and faculty members. Chaired by
the president, the council votes on the deci-
sions the he has to make. Certain matters
discussed during these sessions are closed
to the public, however many are open.
ComCil (Community Council) is in charge
of community life and CG, is keeper of
the Legislative Code, and meets on Thurs-
days at 3pm in the Main Building Council
Room. It is made up of student and non-
student members, a Union representative,
and it is a public forum.
CGC (Campus Greening Council) explores
alternative energy, is responsible for recy-
cling, and ensures purchased products to
be used on campus are recyclable. It is also
in charge of the Community Garden, and
meetings are to be announced within the
next week or so.
The Faculty Senate was devised a few
years ago after a faculty retreat to address
issues of governance. It consists of a Steer-
ing Committee which helps to receive and
prioritize agenda, a Personnel Committee
that deals with faculty review, promotion,
and tenure, an Academic Review commit –
tee that evaluates faculty publications and
student reviews, and a Curriculum Review
Committee that works with curriculum de-
velopment.
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Question of the Week-
With James Thomas Robertson the Ninth
Who do you think should be the new An –
tioch president?
“Who is that stock guy?
Alan Greenspan”
Paul- 2nd Year
“Kermit the frog”
Ed- 2nd Year
“Duffy! I vote Duffy”
Alex-4th Year
“Greg previously
known as from the Caf “
Michael- 2nd Year
“Mr . T. You gotta be somebody,
or you will be somebody’s fool. “
Dave -4th Year
“ John Smith”
Maite – 1 st Year
“Willy Wonka and the
goddamn chocolate factory “
Ashley – 1 st Year
Dispatches from Community Meeting continued from page 14
All upcoming events are posted on the today board on the
community forum. This weekend there will be a mentor prom
on Saturday, where older students and 1
st years will be paired
anonymously. Other events include the upcoming Blues Fest;
if anyone would like to volunteer to help with this event,
please contact CG. Also coming up, a Garden Party, Disability
Awareness Day, and another Board Meeting at the end of
October.
Steve Lawry addressed the group next, focusing on the
Alumni Board’s proposal to change the governing operations
of Antioch. He also noted that the “great organized anguish”
of alumni, followed by job loss, and the possibility of not
graduating for some students, has made the Board of Trustees
realize that they have lost the support of the alumni, and that
they cannot reopen without that support.
Angie Glukhov introduced the Office of Transition following
this. It is on the first floor of the main building, and is headed
by Angie and Janice Kinghorn. It was created after the initial
announcement of Antioch’s (possible) suspension, and is
here to help students who plan on transferring or are anxious
about graduating. The OT has a few upcoming events planned
including the Antioch University Fair on September 14
th and
Antioch College Transfer Day, where representatives from
at least 30 colleges will visit the campus to speak about
opportunities they have to offer and answer questions about
their degree programs.
A Yellow Springs resident and an alumni member, YSO
conduit, Judy Wallert-Maldonado talked about further efforts
going on in Yellow Springs to save Antioch. Her group is also
helping to extend library hours, along with Steve Lawry, and
will be holding a voter registration on campus in September.
She mentioned the need to see more students join their weekly
meetings. If anyone is interested please contact Judy at juju70@
msn.com, or 937-767-0118.
Pulse, much like the rest of the meeting, favored an abundance
of announcements. Dance concert casting will take place next
Wednesday at 7:30 in the South Gym. On September 8
th there
will be a new student field trip from noon to 4pm; everyone is
welcome but only 1
st year students can go for free. Wristbands
cost $8. Nicole Novac is working as the coordinator of the
Bonner Scholarship Program and is running a training program
for the Bonner website. As of now, there is only one person
running the bookstore, so please sign up for FWSP positions
in the store, and give him a hand. A trip is being planned to
Ithaca, NY this weekend and is scheduled to leave September
1
st. Anyone interested please see Jen-e Johnson, Mills 101.
AdCil and ComCil elections are next Wednesday. If you plan
on running please pick up a form from CG.
It was a lengthy first meeting, but an extremely
informative one, with a good turnout. But there is always room
for more. If you did not attend the meeting, please try to make
it to the next one. With our college in crisis, it is a good place
to go for more information on what you can do to help, to find
out what others are already doing, or to put into your own two
cents. 15
May 29, 1979
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