Antioch College to suspend operations

[bedpanartist]

Source: The Dayton Daily News

ELLOW SPRINGS — Antioch College will suspend its operations on July 1, 2008, citing a lack of financial resources and declining enrollment.

"After careful analysis the (Antioch University Board of Trustees) determined that the College's resources are inadequate to continue providing a quality education for its students beyond July 1, 2008," the college said in a statement Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/06/12/ddn061207antiochweb.html

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Personally, I think this is the beginning of something bigger, and better for the radically progressive campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh, no, not Antioch!!

[spotbird]

11. The rhinos, now this

things just keep getting worse. I'm sad.

[janetblond]

23. This IS Bad news

Yet Pat Robertson's university still survives; and Jerry Falwell's "law school".
How pathetic.

[flamingyouth]

2. I have several friends who went there.

I'm sorry to hear this, but I hope that they will come back bigger and better in 2012.

[bedpanartist]

3. and more accessible hopefully

it was a small elite little liberal utopia in many ways (good and bad). I'm hoping they will find a way to open up Antioch to the students of Dayton Public Schools.

To wanna' start a revolution? That would be a great first step.

[Crabby Appleton]

4. I have friends that went there, I used to go down and vist often

in the early 70's, a great school. Too bad.

[Up2Late]

5. Wasn't this one of the Colleges that had the long Voting lines in 2004?

If so, could this be some sort of RW "pay back" for not promoting the "Bush Agenda?"

I know, Tin Hat for me.:tinfoilhat:

[frazzled]

7. No, I think that was Kenyon College

Also in Ohio. I remember reading about it in the NY Times. Students were standing in line in the rain for 10 hours to vote. Though I can't imagine why: Gambier is a teeny tiny town and the school is its main tenant.

[knitter4democracy]

9. I think they only had two or three voting machines.

Meanwhile, my alma mater, Mt. Vernon Nazarene had more than enough machines. Still makes me grumpy thinking about it. When I went there (during both of Clinton's elections), we didn't even have voting machines on campus, since we were supposed to vote based on our permanent address.

[yardwork]

13. That is correct. They had two voting machines for the entire town of Gambier

which is majority Democratic. One of the machines broke down early in the day and nobody could be found to fix it for most of the day (imagine that). Meanwhile, the rest of Knox County, which is majority Republican, had plenty of machines, most of them sitting unused throughout the day.

People in Gambier filed emergency injunctions to keep the polls there open to allow everyone to vote. They were still voting at 3 am, in the pouring rain, after the networks had called the election.

2004 was a filthy, crooked, stolen election - and nowhere was worse than Ohio.

[prolesunited]

24. 2000 was stolen in Florida

2004 in Ohio and I don't care if anyone thinks I'm crazy for thinking that. A preponderance of "coincidences" become a pattern after awhile.

If anyone thinks victory for the Dems is assured in 2008 given the disapproval ratings for the GOP and the lack of decent candidates, they are going to be in for a big surprise.

[spotbird]

28. You're not crazy

til the day I die, I'll never understand why the Democrats tolerated the theft of Ohio.

[yardwork]

31. Me neither. It worries me very much.

[kestrel91316]

6. I'm sad. We lived near there, in Beavercreek, when I was in HS in

the early 70s, and Yellow Springs was full of hippies (the real deal).

[jfkraus]

8. Sad for the town

I grew up in Yellow Springs (1963-1982) and my dad still lives there. He taught history at Antioch for many years. It's sad to see it in such poor shape. Alas, it's due to poor management and an inability to change with the times-- even just a little. My mom is a graduate of the McGregor school. They adapted and are going strong. Antioch could learn a lot from it's little sister McGregor.

Yellow Springs is a unique place and I am sorry to see Antioch on hard times. I hoope they can come back.

[Lorien]

20. I love Yellow Springs, the little town that time forgot

We used to visit on weekends as kids during the 1970's. It's hardly changed since then (well, compared to Columbus and Cleveland). Always enjoyed the ice cream at the parlor with the jersey cow statue out front...can't remember the name. :dunce:

[underpants]

29. I visited there a few years ago revisited that is

We lived there until '72 or so. Great little Mayberry-esque town WITH hippies real hippies not wanna bes. My first few years consisted of getting on our bikes and riding around town with a baseball glove hanging off the back and a swim cap for the pool that made you wear a swimcap. We rode all over town and went thru the drive through beverage place to get a coke.

Antioch had this MASSIVE "Eagles nest" climbing thing that was the great dare, who would/could climb it??? I was 6 when we moved out so I never had the nerve to try.

Oh and playing in the Glenn. Wow what a wonder little town. My wife completely fell in love with it when we visited.

NOTE- the library was the first thing/place to become a memorial to JFK after he was assassinated.

[jfkraus]

32. I was there two weeks ago.

I took my 6 year old for a visit. She loved Young's Jersey Dairy-- although it's a lot bigger now with a restaurant, mini-golf ("Udders and Putters"), driving range, and it's own traffic light. Good icecream and donuts!

[Bo]

35. Young's has a traffic light now?

Wow...thats remarkable

[Bo]

34. Youngs' dairy

[underpants]

30. I guess I lived there from about '69-'72

I was born in Xenia but we moved to Yellow Springs when I was about 2 (I am told)

See my post below about Yellow Springs. I learned to push off from the ground when riding a bike at the school (middle of town gee wonder how much that land is worth?) and we lived on Limestone street and the one around the corner overlooking the baseball diamond (can't remember the name). When I read "To Kill a Mockingbird" I pictured Yellow Springs.

I could go on and on. This is a sad day but the town will go on.

[knitter4democracy]

10. I hope they're going to think outside the box and come back better.

This sounds like a time to really re-evaluate what they're there for and how to do it.

[emlev]

12. I went there...sure hope this is temporary! And as to the 2004 election...

Antioch wasn't one of the colleges with the long lines. However, it's located in Greene County, which is one of the counties that had very weird shit going on at their offices after the election. Google and ye shall find.

I hope Antioch comes back as the college that will lead the way in green (not Greene) technology and educating the leaders of tomorrow.

[yardwork]

14. Is Greene County where the Board of Elections "counted" votes behind locked doors?

I can imagine what they did with the votes from the Antioch precinct.

[emlev]

15. Nope. That was Warren.

[yardwork]

16. Sorry. I get my county vote scandals in the 2004 Ohio elections mixed up.

[emlev]

21. Don't know how that's possible, given that there were so few...

:sarcasm:

[anotherdrew]

17. another example of a great institution being taken over by weasels and run into the ground

I guess the early 2000's "Plan for Antioch" (that students and alumni widely opposed) didn't work out too well. Surprise, surprise. more likely it worked out exactly as planned.

[JoFerret]

33. Why did they oppose the plan?

Briefly - what was it and on what grounds did they object and what better ideas did they have (if any)?

[JoFerret]

18. What a shame

A great college trying to do all the right things (take a look at their website). Crowded out (in part)by all this top tier US News and WP striving hype.
I visited in 1968. I remember a huge banner hung from a dorm window " Welcome FEDS" - they were expecting a drug and draft resisters raid.Great place then. Probably great place now for all its "slide".
A real loss among the college options. Let's hope it can make a comeback without compromising core values and mission.

[theHandpuppet]

19. Oh NO!!!

This is a tragedy. Certainly with all the mega-monied people in this country there's enough to keep this college going???!!!

[emlev]

22. Alumni are beginning to come together to respond

Someone forwarded me a listserv message.

[madrchsod]

25. oh no!!!

first the mt carrol il shimer- now antioch...both colleges were mentioned in time magazine in the 60`s...dam those were the days at shimer...sorry having a flash back...

[murielm99]

26. Did you go to Shimer?

I had a couple of friends who did.

[madrchsod]

27. no...my friends and i used to have dealings

with several students back in the 60`s.....those were strange days