Are you nearby?  Please contact Peter King at peterking or Marianne Connolly at mtc to get involved.

NYC CHAPTER MEETING

8-6-07

NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP, 7:30pm

MAJOR ACTIONS:

1) Michael Casselli unanimously elected as local informational coordinator AND chapter representative to the 8-25-07 BOT meeting

2) Votes on resolutions of support

3) Financial webinar will be hosted:

Where: NY Theater Workshop, 83 East 4th Street

When: 8-16-07 web-cast begins promptly at 8pm EDT

Food and drinks will be served

Wireless access available

8pm meeting opened

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The Columbus Area Antioch Alumni Group is proud to announce the screening of:

The Antioch Adventure (1967)
2:30pm
Saturday Aug 18
Studio 35 at 3055 Indianola Avenue
Columbus, Ohio

Please pass the word along to everyone. This event is open to the public. Studio 35 is a historic and independent single screen theater similar to the Little Art in Yellow Springs. They have generously donated this matinee screening time to support our efforts to save Antioch. Hooray!

We will be doing some fundraising before and after the show and also showing some other short films as time allows.

PLEASE COME AND BRING A FRIEND!

Be Ashamed to Let Antioch Die!

Join the Chicago Antioch College Alumni Chapter
For a Save Antioch Gathering

Saturday, August 18th, 1PM to ?
Winnemac Park, Argyle and Damen, Chicago

Why you should come
*Meet old friends; make new friends
*Play, sing, tell your Antioch stories
*Find ways to help Antioch survive
*Donate or pledge to the Revival Fund
*Create a video testimonial for our YouTube cluster
*Sign up to go to Cincinnati for the Aug 24-26th Board of Trustees meeting

What to bring:
* Yourself and all the real and virtual Antiochians you know.
* Food and drink to share.
* Games to play
* Your memories, pictures, etc.
* Cameras, especially DV-R cameras.

Suggested Donation:
$15 - funds will go to defray postage and other communication costs and to support the bus trip to the Cincinnati meeting. But even if you can’t afford this, please come!

To Volunteer: Email Ian McPhaden, ian.mcphaden

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August 5, 2007

Dear Antiochian,

Your elected Alumni Board opposes the announced plans of the Antioch University Board of Trustees to suspend operations at the College in June 2008. The Alumni Board is dedicated to preserving Antioch College as a “school that changes lives” and intends to reverse this edict. An Alumni Resolution, passed unanimously at Reunion 2007, states: “The Antioch College Alumni are committed to the uninterrupted continuation of Antioch College as an institution of higher education with a tenured faculty.”

As you may have heard, the trustees plan to close the college, dismiss staff and faculty (breaking labor contracts and academic tenure), and reopen four years hence with a “state of the art campus for the 21st century” (despite claims of not having the financial assets to keep the College open or refurbish its buildings now). What you might not know is that the University Leadership Council’s stated plans for reopening the College as “Antioch University Yellow Springs” include opening the campus to real estate development (specifically, as a retirement community) and subjecting the curriculum to yet another unnecessary redesign process by consultants and focus groups. There is no evidence of the University’s commitment to preserving Antioch’s distinctive model of undergraduate education (Academics, Co-op, and Community Governance) or its legacy of creating active citizens for a democratic society.

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We are looking for all Antiochians interested in becoming a part of the Antioch College LA Alumni Chapter. If you are interested in learning more about what we’re doing and helping to form our chapter, please join our mailing list.

Go to the following link to join. Please be sure to add your name. It says it’s optional, but it would really help us to get to know you if you give us your name!
antiochians.org/mailman/listinfo/la_antiochians.org

I am the mailing list administrator for the LA area. If you have any questions, you can contact me at bludragon

We look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks!

Hannah

The San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) Antioch College Alumni Chapter will hold two outdoor events the weekend of August 17-19. Alumni and friends of the College are invited to come and learn what is being done locally to stop the Antioch University Board of Trustees (AUBOT) from closing the doors to the College in July of 2008. At both events, alumni and friends can learn what they can do to join the national and local efforts to “be ashamed to let it die!”

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Join your fellow Oregon Antioch Alumni on Sunday, August 19th from 5-8 p.m. for a BBQ Potluck and showing of the Antioch Adventure Part I (1967) and 2 (1991)!

BBQ will be held at the home of Bonnie Messinger, 4648 SW 39th Dr., off Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. in Portland Accessible by Trimet Bus 54 and 56.

To attend, please RSVP to Kristi Ketchum, kristiketchum or 503-887-1413. Invitation to BBQ

Driving: west of Dosch, east of 45th–there’s a light at 39th Drive–you can only turn one way. .4 miles up SW 39th Drive on the right–plenty of parking on the street. 503-768-9065.

Dear Antiochian:

We are excited to hear about the many upcoming events during the International Support Antioch College Weekend August 17-19. What you are doing is very valuable in our efforts to save Antioch College. To help you prepare for your event, we have included a Basic Guide, or Talking Points, about the College Revival Fund, a pledge card, both of which may be copied for distribution, and a press release template. Many of us are recording our events through video and still photography as well.

This weekend is a celebration of all things Antioch College. It is important, not only to raise money for the College Revival fund, but to also garner media attention for our struggle, to show the Board of Trustees that there is a very active, involved Alumni Association worldwide - and, to have fun! So many of us have been giving countless hours in volunteer work and organizing.

In our effort to gain national attention, it is important that you please forward news about what your chapter is organizing to both the Chapters and Marketing sub-committees. Contact information is at the end of this communication.

As you are no doubt aware, the College Revival Fund was put in place at the historic 2007 Antioch College Reunion, to support the unanimous resolution of the Alumni Association to fight to keep the College open past its proposed closing of June 2008 (to see the full resolution, please visit Antiochians.org). We currently have over $625,000 in the College Revival fund and over $2,000,000 in expressions of intent. Let’s see how much more we can raise before the Board of Trustees meeting on August 25!

Thank you everyone for your time, effort, and passion for Antioch College. Let’s make this happen in a really big way and be ashamed to let it die!

In solidarity,

Kristen Pett ‘90

Alumni Board Member

Press Release Template CRF Pledge Card Revival Fund Talking Points

Dear Fellow Antioch College Supporters,

New Jersey alumni met on July 29 and decided upon the following statement and action plan, which we hope others will want to replicate:

The Antioch University Board of Trustees will be meeting on August 25 and its leaders still publicly insist they will not reverse their decision to suspend operations of the College in Yellow Springs.

Despite the Alumni Association’s success at raising $625,000 since June 28, we believe many more alumni are holding back on contributing to the College because of uncertainty about whether those donations will go to an institution that upholds the core principles of Antioch.

We believe the majority of alumni are outraged by the Board of Trustees’ failure to adhere to Antioch’s longstanding practice of community governance in reaching the decision to close the College or to be properly transparent about the financial accounting that informed that decision. In addition, we believe that the critical financial support of alumni will not be there in four years if Board of Trustees has suspended operation of Antioch College in the interim.

We resolve to encourage as many alumni as possible to pledge support to the College in the next three weeks on the condition, as stated in the pledge form available at antiochians.org/donate, that the Board of Trustees release control of Antioch to a new board specifically committed to the College in Yellow Springs and to an open and inclusive renewal process. In addition to pledging financial support, we believe it is important for alumni to pledge other forms
of assistance, such as recruiting new students, maintaining alumni connections, finding new co-op jobs, and the like We encourage alumni to include information about those support activities on the pledge.

We also resolve to try to increase donations over the next three weeks to the Antioch Faculty Legal Information Fund account at Yellow Springs Federal Credit Union, 217 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs, OH 45387. Current faculty members—who have played a key role in keeping Antioch alive this long—deserve our backing in their efforts to fight
the closure and protect tenure and academic freedom.

Alumni voices should be heard loud and clear before the next Board of Trustees meeting: The trustees should release Antioch and give control of the College to a board that truly values its legacy of self-governance, innovation, a liberal arts curriculum and social justice. We will not support any future educational institution in Yellow Springs that does less.

Sincerely,

The New Jersey Antioch Alumni chapter