antiochians.org

For more information, press photos, or interviews contact

Jennie Knaggs at 517 – 420 – 0211 or email jennieknaggs

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2008
2:00 to 5:30 pm.

AJ’s Café
240 W 9 Mile Rd
Ferndale, MI 48220
(248) 399 -3946
www.ajsmusiccafe.com

South East Michigan Antioch College Alumni Chapter to hold Fundraiser Event

Since the closing of Antioch College this past June, negotiations to reopen have been underway, but we can’t wait. The Nonstop Institute is a collegium of former Antioch College students, faculty, staff, and alums inspired by the College’s high academic standards and curriculum based on social justice. The Nonstop Institute was created in response to Antioch University’s decision to close Antioch College and dismiss its tenured faculty.

The NONSTOP  Liberal Art Institute was created to carry the Soul and the DNA of Antioch.  Since September 4, 2008 the vibrant NONSTOP learning community has been growing and inventing itself and carrying forward the traditions of Antioch College in Yellow Springs.

The tradition of activism and progressive education that makes Antioch College and The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute so important today still thrives in the work of students and alumni all over the world.

Come and learn about — and celebrate – NONSTOP with an afternoon of film, poetry and music from Antioch Alumni. Featuring local poet Terry Blackhawk; Tendaji Ganges of the Antioch Alumni Board; Hassan Rahmanian, Professor at NONSTOP Liberal Arts Institute; Laurie White, filmmaker, with trailer for her new film “Refusing to be Enemies”; music by Jennie Knaggs and the Sure Shots, Tom Sain, and Dan Shoemaker; and a showing of the 1960’s film,“The Antioch Adventure”.

“Other reforms are remedial; education is preventative.” – Horace Mann

* * * *
“Be ashamed to die before you have won some victory for humanity …”

Following the herald of founder Horace Mann, Antioch College Alumni chapters all over the country have been passionately  organizing to save the historic liberal arts institute of Antioch College. Founded in 1853,   Antioch College was a liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio,  based on Horace Mann’s theories that blended practical work experience with classroom learning and participatory community governance. Boasting alumni such as Stephen Jay Gould (Science Historian), Eleanor Holmes Norton ( activist, Delegate to Congress), Mia Katherine Zapata ( lead singer of The Gits), Coretta Scott King ( civil rights activist, author), Antioch College was one of the first colleges in the US to enroll women and African Americans, and the first in higher education to give equal pay and rank to a female professor.

Antioch College is part of the Great Lakes College Association. The GLCA is based in Ann Arbor,  collaborating within a  liberal arts college network in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

LINKS

About NONSTOP and ANTIOCH ONLINE:

www.ysnews.com/stories/2008/10/102308_nonstop.html

nonstopinstitute.org

chronicle.com/news/article/5355/aaup-to-investigate-closing-of-antioch-college

Jennie Knaggs and the Sure Shots:
www.jennieknaggs.com

Great Lakes College Association:

www.glca.org/

We had a good turn-out of 27, fitting snugly into my living room with a few in the peanut gallery on the stairs.  Matt Derr began by telling us the “conversations” between reps of the BoT (Dan Fallon and Jack Merselis) have been ongoing with him and Lee Morgan from side and that he is confident an agreement will be hammered out before too long.  Having been wrong on previous time-line predictions, he thought it best not to pin it down. Matt, for those of you who don’t know, is now working full-time on saving the college, employed by the College Revival Fund (CRF), which is funded by alumni.  He supervises a staff of five – Risa Grimes, Aimee Marayuma, Fred Kraus, Steve Duffy and one other support staff.

[BTW, there is a new Antiochians.com website.  You may have trouble signing in, as I have.  I haven’t figured out how to fix this yet.]

The reason these are called conversations instead of negotiations is that both sides agree on the fundamental issue – transferring the college from the university to independent status.  The goal is a Letter of Intent that spells out the path to resolving specific ownership issues – untangling bond debt, who gets WYSO and AEA, accreditation, etc. The basic values of rigorous academics, co-op jobs and community governance are not in dispute. The endowment (now about $22 million) is restricted to use by the College.

There is a pro-tem board in place ready to hire a president as soon as the college is ours.  They have already had a meeting in New York.

The college is currently closed, except for the library, which is open limited hours with a staff of three.  Matt said the other buildings have been brought into code compliance for empty facilities, which is basically draining the pipes and moving furniture out of the way of firefighter access.  The University has not agreed to heat the buildings this winter.

He also said the estimate for restoration and renovation is between $24 and $30 million – considerably less than the $50 million the University’s consultants predicted.  These improvements and deferred maintenance could be accomplished over 5 or 6 years as the student population grows.  He also noted that this is an opportunity for the school to become ADA compliant and greener.  Thanks to Arthur Morgan, we have our own heating plant that is available for new technology.

Gary pointed out that only 2% of the college age population goes to a residential, private, liberal arts college.  In the current economic climate, and with demographic trends predicting a decline in graduating high school seniors, the re-born Antioch must be able to communicate its special qualities.

Matt pointed out that Antioch has always been a highly tuition dependent college.  Several alums said that designing programs in which students actually help build state of the art green infrastructure would be innovative and cost effective.

Mark Haskell asked Matt “what do you want us to do?”  Matt said: Keep having meetings.  Talk about Antioch to non-Antiochians.  Think about creating co-op jobs.

Catherine McHugh said she had decided to make a monthly pledge rather than leaving Antioch money in her will and urged others to think about that.  Karen Mulhauser said that one of the pro-tem board members, Atis Folkmanis, has offered some of his company’s puppets to our group for a fundraiser when we’re ready.  (www.folkmanis.com).
She also said we should think about how to recruit students in this area.

If you know any alums in this area who are not on this list, please forward this info to them if you wish.  Forgive us if you get this twice.
There was also some discussion of the Non-Stop Institute in YSO, but I’m trying to keep this brief.

–Megan Rosenfeld

When: Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 7:30pm
Location: TBD – announced ASAP

Jeff Wood ‘88
NYC Chapter Co-Chair

CHICAGO FILM THE FIRST BREATH OF TENGAN REI
PREMIERES AT GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER, 164 N. STATE ST., CHICAGO
FRIDAY, NOV. 21, 8:15 p.m, SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 8 p.m, MONDAY, NOV. 24,  7:45 p.m.
Antioch College Alumni Chapter Hosts Reception before Nov. 22 Screening

The emotional international drama The First Breath of Tengan Rei, written and directed by Chicago husband/wife filmmaking team Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski, has its Chicago premiere in a three-night run Nov. 21, 22 and 24 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.  The First Breath of Tengan Rei screens Friday, Nov. 21 at 8:15 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22 at 8 p.m., and Monday, Nov. 24 at 7:45 p.m.

Kajino, a native of Nagano, Japan, and Koziarski, from Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood, met on a film set at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1997 when Koziarski was completing his senior film there when Kajino moved to town to start her film career.  Together they have helped produce dozens of independent films, all the while battling to make their own feature film.  They finally got their chance when Junko was inspired by a tragic true story that she felt a special responsibility and opportunity to tell, as a Japanese woman living in the U.S.

In The First Breath of Tengan Rei, Japanese star Erika (of Kore-Eda’s renowned After Life) plays Rei, a young Okinawan woman who kidnaps Paris, the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl.  While Rei holds Paris captive, the two are drawn together despite the scars of the past, as they prepare for a final confrontation with Paris’s father, Nelson.

Kajino and Koziarski filmed The First Breath of Tengan Rei in Chicago and Okinawa with a Japanese and Chicago cast and crew, overcoming language and cultural barriers and shooting through a typhoon in a former leper colony off the Okinawa coast.  North Carolina newcomer Katori Eason plays Paris.  Chicago stage veteran Sean Nix, mostly recently seen in Timeline Theatre Company’s production of Gore Vidal’s Weekend, portrays Nelson.  Nelson’s partner in crime, Carter, is portrayed by local film and TV actor Ric Arthur, who himself served in the Marines in Okinawa.  Mark Messing, leader of acclaimed local band Mucca Pazza, designed the sound for the film, and composed the score, featuring music by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and Califone guitarist Jim Becker.

Before the Saturday Nov. 22 screening, the Chicago Alumni Chapter of Antioch College hosts a benefit reception for the college, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Film Center’s Gallery/Café.  A historic leader in progressive, experiential education, operations of Antioch College were suspended by Antioch University last summer.  College alumni are negotiating and raising funds to reopen the college as an independent institution next year and restore its vital place in the educational landscape.

$9 general admission tickets for the screenings can be purchased from the Film Center box office or from Ticketmaster at 312.575.8000 or www.ticketmaster.com.   There is no charge for the Nov. 22 reception. After-parties will follow each night, with locations to be announced at each screening.

Download press kit and stills at www.tenganrei.com/media.html.  Screeners available on request.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Junko Kajino
312.850.1247
kajinoj

Ed M. Koziarski
773.910.1444

Matthew Derr (‘89)
Member of the Board of Trustees Pro Tem

Please join us for a status report from Matt Derr, who is on the negotiating team that is trying to make a deal with Antioch University for the independent rescue of our college.

Saturday, November 8, 2008  2:00 pm
Parish Hall at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
118 3rd Street SE
Convenient to Capitol South Metro stop.
Map available at www.stmarks.net

Refreshments will be provided! We are asking for a $10 donation to
cover the cost of the room.

RSVP: rosenfeldm(at)verizon.net
Antioch College Alumni Association
PO Box 444
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
www.antiochians.org

Reinventing Liberal Arts Education for the 21st Century:
Promising Directions for a New Antioch College
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
(near Harvard Square Red Line stop)

AGENDA
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Morning Session: 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
From Past to Future: Lessons from Experience and Imagination
A Facilitated Roundtable Discussion
Lunch (on your own) :  11:30 a.m. — 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Updates:

Status – Negotiations to Re-Open Antioch College
Lee Morgan Class of ’66, College Trustee Pro Tem

The Nonstop Institute and Antioch College Revival Fund
Hassan Rahmanian, Director, Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

Keynote Speaker

Trends in Higher Education: Peril and Promise
Cary Nelson,  Antioch College Class of ‘67
President, American Association of University Professors

Panel Discussions
Service Learning & Co-operative Work-Study Programs
Inquiry-based Studies in Science and Environmental Sustainability
Computer Technology, the Internet,  & Innovative Classroom Learning
Education for Participation in Democracy

Social Hour and Dinner 5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
($30.00 advance contribution)
Proceeds to benefit the Nonstop Institute and the College Revival Fund
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Map & Directions To Harvard University, Dudley House

www.map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=C&series=N

RSVP by November 2 to Barbara Wallraff,
Boston Chapter, Antioch College Alumni Association
barbara or call her at
617-365-9068
Please indicate which you plan to attend: morning session, afternoon session, and dinner

Full Agenda Below:

Draft Agenda

Symposium: Reinventing Liberal Arts Education for the 21st Century:
Promising Directions for a New Antioch College

November 15, 2008
Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge MA

Morning Session (for Antioch College alumni, staff, faculty, and extended community)

• 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
• Facilitators –
  • Elissa Tonkin, J.D., Director, EPA New England Dispute Resolution Program, volunteer community mediator/facilitator
  • Douglas Thompson, M.S., Senior Associate, The Keystone Center
  • Niela Miller, MS Ed., Director, People Systems Potential

Facilitated roundtable discussion among Antioch College alumni. The session will include an experiential exercise directed by Niela Miller. It will enable participants to probe the own views and exchange perspectives about:

• what they most valued about their Antioch experience;
• what they believe must be preserved about the “old Antioch”;
• what tensions, if any, exist between their notions of the essence of Antioch and the future viability of Antioch; and
• what a reconstituted Antioch – true to our ideals and positioned to thrive into the future – might look like.

• 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. – lunch on your own in Harvard Square

Afternoon Session (open to all interested):

• 1-1:05 p.m. – Introduction/groundrules
• Moderator – Everett Mendelsohn, PhD, Antioch College 1953, Harvard University Professor of History of Science
• 1:05-1:20 p.m.

• Update on Status of Negotiations to Re-Open Antioch College
• Lee Morgan Antioch College 1966, Antioch College Board of Trustees Pro Tem

• The Work of the Non-Stop Liberal Arts Institute
• Hassan Rahmanian, Director, The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

• 1:20 – 2:15 p.m. – Keynote Speaker – Cary Nelson, PhD, University of Rochester, 1970, B.A. Antioch College 1967, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; current President, American Association of University Professors

Current Challenges and Useful Innovations in Liberal Arts Education

• 2:15-3:15 p.m. – First set of two concurrent panels on promising innovations in higher education and previous experience with each approach at Antioch College

• 1. Service Learning and Co-operative Work-Study Programs

• Moderator Janet Chumley, Instructor and Director of Student Teaching, Simmons College
• Panelists
  • Stephen London, Simmons College, director of faculty Oversight for service learning
  • Patricia Linn, Antioch Seattle (videotape statement)
  • Lee Morgan

• 2. Inquiry-based learning for Teaching Science and Environmental Sustainability
  • Co-moderators: Masha Jannine Etkin, M.D., Antioch College Alumna and Roy Crystal, Antioch College 1971, Environmentalist and photographer
  • Panelists:
  • Stanly Bernstein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Antioch College
  • Judith Greenwald Voet, Ph.D., Antioch College 1963, Swarthmore College
  • Davis Taylor, Economist and Professor, College of the Atlantic

• 3:15-3:30 p.m. break
• 3:30-4:30 p.m. second set of two to concurrent panels on promising innovations in higher education

• 3. Using Computer Technology and the Internet to Improve Residential Learning and Co-operative Work-Study Programs

• Moderator, Stanley Morse, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Antioch College Alumnus
• Panelist: Katharine Galaitsis, Director of Distance Learning Programs, University of Massachusetts Boston

• 4. Peace Studies and Education for Democracy
  • Moderator– Zelda Gamson, Antioch College ’59, New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts-Boston
  • Panelists:
    • Dale Bryan, Assistant Director of Peace Studies, Tufts University
    • Jean Gregorek, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute

• 4:30-5:15 p.m. – moderated full group discussion of promising innovations (moderator, Everett Mendelsohn). Reporter from the morning session reports out on the discussions and what elements are most valued to keep in a new Antioch College.
• 5:15-5:30 p.m. – wrapup and next steps – moderator describes process for input to curriculum development or college reopening planning
• 5:30-6:45 p.m. networking and social time
• 6:45 p.m. – catered dinner

Jill Wolcott, ‘74, hosted. “It was an enchanted evening,” said Wolcott – with balmy breezes, the sound of the lake lapping the shore and northern lights above. “I was either right back on the stoop in Yellow Springs or I was in heaven.”

Kenny Peck, ‘75, spun sounds from the ’60s and ’70s. Amanda Calder, ‘07, caught everyone up on the latest doings in Yellow Springs. And the 25 or so alums in attendance, spanning five decades of graduating classes, from the Sixties through the Oughties, bonded over a viewing of The Antioch Adventure.

“Every time we alums get together, we seem to recreate some of the Antioch magic,” said Wolcott.

The impending launch of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute was the impetus for the get-together – and cause for renewed excitement among the group about prospects for rekindling the spirit of Antioch College.

“We felt some need to celebrate the victory of the-college-formerly-known-as-Antioch in receiving its independence from the University,” said Peck. “Back in the early 70’s, someone scribbled ‘If dogs run free . . .’ all over the Yellow Springs campus, a sign of those times, but in hindsight it seems more now to be a metaphor of what Antioch was once and perhaps what the Non-Stop venture can still be.”

For photos of this event Click Here

You are invited to the next meeting of the Antioch College Alumni Chapter of Southeastern Michigan and Northern Ohio:

WHEN:                 Sunday, September 21, 2008, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Margo Lowenstein has graciously offered to host our meeting, with refreshments (!!!) at her home:

WHERE:               1121 Gott St,  Ann Arbor

I’ve grabbed and attached some sample text (no maps) directions from Mapquest using Margo’s home address and figured routes from the north (Flint) south (Toledo) and east (Detroit). I’ve saved them in the 1997-2003 version of MS Word, so hopefully everyone can open them as needed.

WHAT:

Join Antiochians all across the country for Antioch (oops) NONSTOP Rocks, September 20-21, 2008 — a weekend dedicated to community building, planning, discussing, updating and coming-together as we move into the next phase of our struggle to save our beloved College.

Learn about alumni chapter organizing from NYC to LaJolla CA.

View the DVD prepared by the CRF.

Learn about the CRF, NLIA in YSO, Pro Tem Board, Task Force, GLCA and all the latest developments.

Contribute your ideas for our own chapter building and fundraising activities. We’ve already lined up some musicians and poets and others who are willing to contribute their talents to assist in this campaign.

WHY:

This a critical time in our struggle to reclaim and to rebuild Antioch as the autonomous liberal arts undergraduate college that we all know and love. Then again, we seem to have been in that critical stage for well over a year now! But yes, we are all needed so we must work to come together and do what Antiochians do – MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

BACKGROUND:

This a critical time in our struggle to reclaim and to rebuild Antioch as the autonomous liberal arts undergraduate college that we all know and love. Then again, we seem to have been in that critical stage for well over a year now! But yes, we are all needed so we must work to come together and do what Antiochians do – MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Since the Antioch University Board of Trustees ultimately rejected the alternative plans proposed by the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (AC3) it has proceeded to close and shutter the Yellow Springs campus. Since then the Antioch College faculty, staff and students, with the support of the townspeople and friends of Yellow Springs, and the Alumni Association and its Board of Directors, has just this week launched the NonStop Liberal Arts Institute. (For more complete information about the Institute, please go to the website:  nonstopinstitute.org/). Just shortly before the 2008 Alumni Reunion, the Antioch University Board of Trustees formally unanimously decided to ask the Alumni Association and our Board to make an offer and a plan to take offer the College. A task force was quickly appointed, as follows:

“The task force consists of two representatives of the Antioch College Alumni Association (we selected Matthew Derr ‘89 and Lee Morgan ‘66), two representatives of the Antioch University Board of Trustees, and the President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association as the mediator.” (Source: antiochians.org/2008/08/08/preparation-for-a-new-fully-independent-antioch-college-aided-by-new-advisors/)

These past few months have been marked by intense negotiations while we have observed the closing and shutting down of the College buildings, during which there has been a great deal of concern expressed about the “clearing and cleaning” of the buildings, the disposition of furnishings and the preparation of the buildings for the coming cold weather. Please read about some of our frustrations by taking a look at the comments of our Alumni Association President, Nancy Crow, at the following site: antiochians.org/2008/09/08/campus-facilities-update-from-nancy-crow-president-alumni-board-of-directors/

Meanwhile, the work continues to establish the structure of the team that will initially guide the resurrection of Antioch College:

“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.” (Source:   antiochians.org/2008/08/20/first-5-members-named-to-antioch-college-board-of-trustees-pro-tem/)

There is again some light on the horizon and strong hope for reclaiming Antioch. The folks on the ground at the newly established administrative offices are fully committed to providing the support and structure for the process of rebuilding. (Please see the following site for a description of the offices and the work that is underway in Yellow Springs: antiochians.org/2008/04/10/nonstop-antioch-has-new-home-and-staff/)

“April 10, 2008– Antioch alumni working through the College Revival Fund, Inc. (CRF) announced today that they have opened new offices in Yellow Springs, Ohio for “Nonstop Antioch.” These offices are at 716 Xenia Avenue, right across the street from the Antioch College campus. The CRF is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt non-profit corporation founded by members of the Antioch College Alumni Association. Since last June, the CRF has raised over $19.5 million dollars for a continuing, independent Antioch College.

CRF Acting President Ellen Borgersen said today in a statement, “The Antioch University Board of Trustees has shown that they are unworthy to and unwilling to carry on the Antioch College educational mission. The attack on Antioch College is an attack on experiential liberal arts education, shared governance, tenured faculty, and unionized staff. It is up to the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and townspeople of Yellow Springs to carry on the historic mission of Antioch College, and Nonstop Antioch is the vehicle that will organize alumni support for that effort.”

There are pressing issues that need to be considered and the full support of all of the Antioch College Alumni is needed.

In addition to more complete reports about the structure being developed to assume control of the College and its ultimate reopening, we will be able to view a DVD about the NonStop Liberal Arts Institute, and discuss options and opportunities for our involvement. Not the least of these concerns is mounting a massive fundraising initiative, led by Risa Grimes and her staff now based at our 716 Xenia Avenue offices. I’ve attached a copy of the “College Revival Form” Pledge/Payment Form to begin that process. But we will also need everyone’s input for some ideas for fundraising activities. We’ve already lined up some musicians and poets and others who are willing to contribute their talents to assist in this campaign.

We need you to come out, join in and work with us in what we hope will be a major push over the top of the mountain leading to a renewed and revitalized autonomous Antioch College – something we haven’t had for three decades!

Can we count on you, please?!

If anyone has any questions, suggestions or concerns, please contact either one of us.

To assist with planning and refreshments, please RSVP to this email to either of your chapter co-chairs:

Tendaji W. Ganges at tganges
Terry Blackhawk at terry260.

We look forward to seeing you on September 21st at Margo’s house!

BE ASHAMED TO LET IT DIE!!!

Tendaji W. Ganges and Terry Blackhawk
Co-Chairs

This weekend Saturday, September 20th we are gathering at

The Spot
4437 N. Broadway
Chicago, IL

Starting at 9pm with open bar reception from 10pm-11pm.  Please bring a non-perishable food item for The Spot’s canned food drive and just mention “Antioch” to cut the line and waive the cover.

Please join us on The Spot’s patio show our solidarity with the national Nonstop Rocks weekend to support Nonstop Antioch and the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute.  We will catch up with each other and the state of the Nonstop Antioch movement.

If you haven’t been involved with the Chicago Chapter, this is the perfect start! Join us for a fun, social evening among friends and get the latest lowdown from the front lines.

How can you help?  Spread the word!  Then?  Attend!    Below is the link to the The Nonstop at The Spot Facebook event page, and attached is the invitation.

Hope to see you there!

Beth Richards ‘04
Outreach/ Recruitment Coordinator
Chicago Area Alumni Chapter

Sept 20th Facebook Event Page

www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=40032253520

Chicago Antiochians Facebook Group

www.new.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=38213289792

For more information contact Tim Eubanks at teubanks