Extreme water damage to campus

Video of extreme water damage to Main Building due to neglect by
Antioch University.

The water damage will likely ruin the building if it is allowed to
freeze again.

Here is a message from former professor Pete Townsend:

Hi Folks,

I just got back from a trip to main building with a 6' step ladder and
a powerful flashlight. The University can certainly be "proud" of
it's stewardship of the college buildings!

Thanks to Tim Noble and Brian Springer for bringing this to our
attention.

Tonight when I visited Main Building I felt large areas on the first
floor where the bricks on the outside of the building are saturated
with water. Main Building was built in the 1850's and the bricks hold
the structure up. On the ground level there are 4 thicknesses of
bricks. For the outside bricks to be slick with water coming from
inside the building means all four layers of bricks and all of the
mortar in the walls of the saturated areas is filled with water.

When it gets below freezing again, the bricks and mortar in main
building will freeze, which will not be good for the building. Ice
damaged bricks in the bottom floor of a building that is supported by
its brick exterior, does not bode well for the structural integrity of
the building.

Shame on Antioch University!

I have been told that on December 25 a sprinkler head was pushed out
of the sprinkler system by ice in the pipes on the northeast 4th floor
of South Hall. The sprinkler system was charged with water in the
unheated and beautifully renovated South Hall, and likely ran for
days. I understand that the University removed all rugs from the 4th,
3rd, 2nd, and 1st floors of South Hall, because they were saturated
with water. That means all 4 floors of the building flooded! South
has wooden floors. The wood floors would have been saturated, also.
After the flood the building was not dried out, it was left sealed and
freezing by the University. What damage is STILL being done to the
hardwood floors, the gypsum board walls, the electric system, and the
Internet system in South Hall????

Antioch University should be ashamed of its treatment of the buildings
of the historic Antioch College Campus.

Peter Townsend

Useful Links

Useful Links

For More Information:

• The Alumni Board’s efforts website:  http://www.antiochians.org
• Documents and Information: http://theantiochpapers.org
• Listen Up Antioch!: http://listen.antiochians.org
• The Antioch Record Online: http://recordonline.org
• Antioch Alumni Chapters: http://chapters.antiochians.org
• WYSO’s broadcasts about Antioch College’s closing: http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wyso/news.newsmain?action=section&SECTION_ID=2606
• The Blaze Editorial Collective: http://blazenews.org
• The Yellow Springs News: http://www.ysnews.com/archives/index.html
• Antioch Media: http://antiochmedia.org

The Non Stop Liberal Arts Institute

• Website: http://nonstopinstitute.org
• You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/NStopDispatch

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• Antiochians Discussion Forums: http://www.antiochians.org/forum
• Antiochians Portal: http://portal.antiochians.org
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• Antiochians Gallery: http://gallery.antiochians.org

Blogs

• Antioch Lives!: http://antiochlives.blogspot.com
• Antioch Love Letters: http://antiochloveletters.blogspot.com
• Antioch Peace Machine: http://antiochpeacemachine.blogspot.com
• Antioch Students: http://antiochstudents.blogspot.com
• Trying To Save Antioch College: http://alexandrakesman.blogspot.com
• The Antioch Radical Rag: http://antiochradicalrag.blogspot.com/

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Social Networking

• Antioch College on Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Yellow-Springs-OH/Antioch-College/11868391994?ref=nf
• Good resource for info: http://community.livejournal.com/antioch_college
• Antioch College You Tube Group: http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=antiochcollege
• Fun little map of Antiochians: http://www.frappr.com/antiochians
• Antioch College Alumni on Facebook: http://antiochcollege.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2213720773
• Antioch Alumni Networking on Facebook: http://antiochcollege.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2383152704
• Save Antioch (Global) on Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2497971414&ref=ts
• The Antioch Record on Facebook: http://antiochcollege.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208921664
• Antioch College on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/antiochcollege
• Antiochians on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/antiochians

Antioch College Fundraiser

I am currently planning a fundraiser for the Southwest Ohio Region to be held in Cincinnati, OH. See below for all details, if you are in the immediate area, please stop by!

On September 12^th from 7-10pm, the Cincinnati Antioch College Alumni Chapter will be holding a fundraiser to raise money for the [Antioch] College Revival Fund a 501(c)(3) and the Non Stop Liberal Arts Institute of Yellow Springs, OH. The event will be held at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, 1120 Jackson Street in Over-the-Rhine.

There will be several exciting presentations at the fundraiser. Antioch College’s Archivist Scott Sanders will be showing his famous presentation of 150 years of Antioch College in 60 minutes or less. Also being shown are the Antioch Adventure I & II student films from the ‘60s and the ‘80s.

Other features of the evening include a raffle and silent auction where participants could win Antioch College memorabilia, photographs, and tickets to Know Theatre of Cincinnati’s coming productions.

The event will be in Know Theatre’s “Jackson Underground” bar area and will include a full bar and complimentary wine and snacks.

In June of 2007, the Board of Trustees of Antioch University voted to suspend operations of Antioch College due to a large deficit and dropping enrollment. Since then, the Antioch College Alumni have been rallying to raise money to save the school. Currently the college is dark, but actions are being taken to negotiate with the University and the beginnings of an independent Board of Trustees for the college are in the works.

The Non Stop Liberal Arts Institute is the movement that is keeping Antioch’s faculty, students, and institutional memory alive. Antioch College’s former Faculty are currently holding classes in coffee shops and homes around Yellow Springs. Classes started on September 2^nd, 2008. They are currently being supported by the College Revival Fund.

The future of Antioch College is in the hands of it’s Alumni and supporters. Major funds are needed to re-open and continue to support this ground breaking and infamous college that has changed so many lives.

Classes at Non Stop Institute Begin

Contact: Judith Wolert-Maldonado
Cell Phone: 937-532-4996
Email: juju70@msn.com
Website Affiliation: www.nonstopinstitute.org


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


First day of classes to begin at innovative Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

Yellow Springs, Ohio – September 5, 2008 - The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute will mark the official start of its first semester with classes beginning on Monday, September 8, 2008, in non-traditional classrooms spread throughout the village of Yellow Springs. “Nonstop,” as it has been nicknamed by the local community, is an educational endeavor that seeks to continue the values and traditions of the recently closed Antioch College. Nonstop is a project of the College Revival Fund, which supports an independent Antioch College. 

The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute offers open and affordable enrollment to students of all ages and backgrounds. Students may enroll on a full-time or course-by-course basis. In addition to registering for full-semester classes, students may also sign up for shorter courses and one-day workshops. An event series called Nonstop Presents!, will offer a variety of educational programming, which will include lectures, workshops, and music and arts events, many of which will be free and open to the public. 

The entire first week of Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute classes will be free and open to the public so that potential students can decide if they would like to register for the fall semester. A full list of the fall classes can be found on the Nonstop website: nonstopinstitute.org

Classes beginning on this Monday include: Modern Dance and Improvisation for Beginners, Visions of Suburbia, Elements of Photography, Community Journalism, Documentary Inquiry: The Atomic Age, Sounds and Circuits, and Community Band. Other classes offered include history and anthropology, art and literature, and the sciences. Two of the classes that may interest adult students are Personal Investing and a Good Books Club. All classes, which will be taught by a majority of former professors of Antioch College, will take place in community centers, coffee shops, churches, and private homes throughout the village of Yellow Springs. Nonstop faculty member Chris Hill said, “Nonstop not only carries on Antioch’s tradition of learning, but reinvigorates it. This experiment takes our classrooms out into the world and into uncharted territory.”

The unconventional structure of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute transcends the traditional higher educational classroom settings. The Local & Sustainable Agriculture Workshop, for instance, will utilize a local farm as a classroom to study the permaculture approach to farming. The faculty has designed the Nonstop curriculum with the interests and needs of the local community in mind, allowing anyone with an interest in learning, to get involved.

The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute is not affiliated with or sponsored by Antioch University, or its related organizations.

For additional inquiries contact: juju70@msn.com

Antioch College's first independent board members named

First 5 members Named to College Board of Trustees Pro Tem More Board members are to be named in the weeks ahead and we will report via this e-newsletter.The Antioch College Alumni Board of Directors announced that it has named the first 5 members to the College Board of Trustees Pro Tem. This initial group includes Matthew Derr '89, Atis Folkmanis '62, Frances Degen Horowitz '54, Lee Morgan '66, and Barbara Slaner Winslow '68.  These first five members represent a broad range of skills, but share steadfast dedication to Antioch College.  More members will be named shortly. While naming the first members of the Board Pro Tem is an exciting step, it is a step that is done in tandem with the Task Force working to effect a separation of Antioch College and Antioch University. Last week, we reported that the Task Force had hired consultants to assist with legal and financial issues.  The initial members of the Board Pro Tem have been idenitified by the Committee on Trustees. The Committee on Trustees included representatives from the Alumni Board, the Antioch College Continuation Corporation, Nonstop, and the broader alumni community. It drew on the previous work of the Governance Committee to identify candidates for the first Board of Trustees to focus solely on Antioch College in over thirty years.

Antioch College Revival Resolution 2008

Antioch College Revival Resolution 2008

June 22, 2008

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni Association, the College Revival Fund (CRF), the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (AC3), the Antioch College Faculty and Staff, Community Government (CG), Antioch College Action Network (ACAN), and residents of the Village of Yellow Springs have worked diligently over the last 12 months to save Antioch College by building a business plan, negotiating principles of agreement and letters of intent, signing petitions, marching, protesting and meeting numerous times with the Antioch University Board of Trustees to reach agreement for a separate and independent Antioch College with its own board of Trustees, tenured faculty and unionized staff; and

Whereas, the College Revival Fund staff and volunteers have raised over $18 million in pledges and cash donations from generous alumni and friends to support the operations of an independent Antioch College; and

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni Association has come together across generations and across the world in support of saving Antioch, and

Whereas, the College Revival Fund has committed resources to hire Institutional Advancement staff and set up a Nonstop Antioch office; and

Whereas, the Antioch College faculty, CG and staff and the College Revival Fund have initiated, developed and committed $1 million to support the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute as a way to sustain a core faculty and continue the “DNA” and spirit of Antioch College until the College is independent and under the authority of its own Board of Trustees and President; and

Whereas, the College Revival Fund and in support of Nonstop Antioch has embarked upon three concurrent strategies to win back Antioch College: 1) a response, with all due haste, to the Antioch University Board of Trustee’s Keene resolution to establish an independent residential Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; 2) the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute and 3) the investigation, preparation and support of litigation; and

Whereas, the Antioch College tradition of self governance is continuing through the establishment of Excil to take the place of Adcil and the continuation of Comcil during this transition time; and

Whereas, the Antioch University Board of Trustees is following through on its plan to close Antioch College on June 30, 2008 and has laid off the majority of faculty and staff; and

Whereas, Over 400 Antioch College Alumni attended the 2008 Antioch College Reunion representing the classes of 1946 through 2011, and

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni Association recognizes the role and value of the Antioch University campuses in adult higher education and believes that the independence of Antioch College from the University affirms their mission in adult education and strengthens both institutions; and

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni call upon the legacy of Horace Mann, Arthur Morgan and the thousands of Antiochians who have passed through this institution of higher education, known today as one of the colleges that produces leaders and innovators who change the world; and

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni believe that Antioch College is worth fighting for and deserves every effort of its alumni and friends to rebuild the institution, making it whole and vibrant and able to provide a liberal arts education based in the values of community governance, cooperative education, challenging academic course work, mutual respect, intellectual freedom, free and open inquiry, social justice and celebration of diversity, and

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni would be ashamed to let Antioch College die;
Therefore, be it Resolved that:

1. The Antioch College Alumni are committed to the uninterrupted continuation of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio as a residential institution of higher education with a tenured faculty, respected adjunct faculty and unionized staff to provide a liberal arts education based in the values of community governance, cooperative education, challenging academic course work, mutual respect, intellectual freedom, free and open inquiry, social justice and celebration of diversity .

2. The Antioch College Alumni Association instructs its elected Board of Directors to continue conversations, with all due haste, with the Antioch University Board of Trustees on the following:

a. The complete separation of Antioch College from Antioch University.

b. The transfer of the assets of Antioch College from Antioch University including but not limited to: the name “Antioch College,” its academic and cooperative education curriculum, Glen Helen, Antioch College’s restricted endowment, Antioch Education Abroad Program, Antioch Review, the Coretta Scott King Center, the Library and Antiochiana and all its holdings, the College’s electronic data bases and other electronic documents, WYSO radio station, the Antioch College’s physical plant, land and all other tangible and intangible assets to an independent Antioch College non-profit corporation.

3. The Antioch College Alumni in attendance at the 2008 Reunion call upon all Antioch College alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, members of the Yellow Springs Community, colleagues in higher education including members of the faculty and student bodies of other units of Antioch University and other interested parties to stand with us to raise the necessary funds for our three priorities (1)funding to support an independent Antioch College, 2)Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, and 3) litigation; and call to action all necessary support to continue the operations of Antioch College.

Approved by a majority vote of the Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors at its special meeting at 6:00pm on June 21st, 2008.

Approved by a majority vote of the Antioch College Alumni at the Reunion Brunch on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008.

Respectfully submitted by:
Catherine Jordan, ‘72
Member, Antioch College Alumni Association Board of Directors and AC3

Antioch University Rejects $14.5 million and the Future of Antioch

PRESS RELEASE

The Antioch Papers - May 9, 2008 - -

http://www.theantiochpapers.org

Antioch University Rejects $14.5 million and the Future of Antioch
College

http://theantiochpapers.org/document/101/antioch-university-rejects-145-million-and-the-future-of-antioch-college

On April 28th, the Antioch University Board of
Trustees made a historic decision. A majority of the
Board voted to approve an offer by the ACCC to replace
a number of Board members with people distinguished in
higher education, journalism, and business. All were
Antioch College grads, and most had served previously
on the Antioch University Board of Trustees. They
would bring with them their personal financial
resources, exemplified by a $14.5 million gift to the
University/College, and their commitment to correct
the existing Board's fundraising failures.

This renewed Board was ready to keep Antioch College
open. After 9 months with the historic alma mater's
head on the block, the College would be saved. After
every other vote since June, Board Chair Art Zucker
had asked for everyone to endorse the decision so the
Board could speak with one voice. Not this time.

After the April 28th vote both parties negotiated a
few minor changes to the agreement. The negotiating
teams agreed to change 2 (out of a total of 20)
trustee memberships on the newly constituted Board.
Longtime University/College supporter Lillian Pierson
Lovelace was added to the new Board. Another Board
position was to be temporarily filled for a 6 week
period until the permanent Trustee was available.
These changes could have been approved by a simple
email; instead Zucker demanded a formal meeting and
another vote.

Chancellor Toni Murdock used the 10-day window between
April 28 and May 8 to produce a series of documents to
undermine the original agreement. A new set of attacks
on the proposal to reconstitute the Board and save the
College was emailed to trustees on May 8. A few hours
after receiving these documents the Antioch University
Board of Trustees met by phone to vote again on what
they had already approved. Some of the College's
strongest supporters could not make the call; it was
known that at least one supporter was out of the
country. Despite its formal decision on April 28 to
keep the College open, the Board of Trustees voted
again and reversed itself; on May 8 the Board rejected
the ACCC plan to save Antioch College.

Related Documents for Download at The Antioch Papers

1) Final Proposal - The ACCC proposal that was
accepted and then rejected by Antioch University.
2) Accreditation Conversations - Antioch University
Chancellor Toni Murdock's recollection of discussions
with the North Central Association and the Ohio Board
of Regents.
3) Fiduciary Duties - Antioch University's legal
reasoning for rejecting the ACCC's $14.5 million gift.

4) Grant Resolution - A donor's decision to withhold
funds from Antioch University based on leadership
changes and/or institutional performance.
5) ACCC Biographies - Background information on the
ACCC.


The Antioch Papers
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