Reply #280: Have sad news for you -- Antioch is closing in July. [View All]

[AngryOldDem]

It's closing next year, after all.

Link to local news story (and I hope this works, I have been link-challenged lately):
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/22/ddn022208antiochweb.html

Snip:

<<YELLOW SPRINGS — After two days of meetings in Los Angeles, Antioch University trustees said Fri., Feb. 22 they reaffirmed their original June 2007 decision to close the college for a year after negotiations failed with the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, or ACCC, which wanted to take over the school and create its own board of trustees.

Many Antioch College students and faculty who gathered in McGregor Hall on campus Friday were stunned and angry at the news that trustees decided to close the school in June as originally planned.>>

This is truly sad. When they first announced the closure, they said they were no longer attracting enough top students, and that Antioch could not compete with larger schools. There was also a very big dust-up involving WYSO a few years back that was very bad PR and left behind a lot of hard feelings.

I went to the University of Dayton, myself, but I always thought Antioch was a neat school, and Yellow Springs, a neat town. My conservative father used to get a kick out of driving up to Yellow Springs in the 1960s to gawk at the "hippies." :D I am so afraid for what this closure means to Yellow Springs, which has such a unique ambiance, which is solely attributable to Antioch.