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Farewell to Chelsea Martens ’08

Date: 6/25/2009
On Tuesday, June 16, the staff of the College Revival Fund gathered at the newly re-opened Corner Cone in downtown Yellow Springs to bid a fond farewell to Chelsea Martens ’08.  Chelsea has served as Community Manager for most of two years and has been a beacon of stability, integrity, and hope for Antiochians everywhere as we walk together this hard road toward independence.

Dispatch from our past: The Reorganization Program for Antioch College

Date: 6/18/2009
This dispatch comes from an informational packet that explains some of the reorganization of Antioch College in the early Morgan years.  Thanks to Scott Sanders of Antiochiana.

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The Reorganization Program for Antioch College

Antioch
College, located at Yellow Springs, Ohio, near Springfield and Dayton,
was opened in 1852, being the first college in the United States to
admit men and women on equal terms Horace Mann was President from the
opening of the college until his death. The buildings furnish about 2
acres of floor space, are substantially built and with moderate repairs
and equipment will reasonably meet the needs of 500 students.

Alumni Festival Work Projects: Distributing CFL’s and Alt Library Cataloging

The work projects for this weekend’s Summer Alumni Festival will be to hand out CFL bulbs to homes throughout Yellow Springs and to catalog the Alt Library collection.

Compact Florescent Bulbs are more energy efficient than incandescents. The Village of Yellow Springs purchased the light bulbs, and alumni will go door to door to distribute them. This project will promote greater energy efficiency, help support Yellow Springs in their efforts to become a greener village, and help to sustain the important connection that Nonstop has made with the village over the past year. It will be a pleasant and relaxing way to spend some time strolling through beautiful Yellow Springs, chatting with our neighbors!

Alumni will also work on cataloging the Alt Library collection. Sara Eklund Payne, a recently-retired professional librarian will be guiding the effort. The Alt Library will join the Womyn’s Center and the TWA/BAMN collections which have already been barcoded and cataloged, so your contribution this weekend will allow the entire library to be accessible online. The Alt Library was created and maintained by students and Community Government workers over nearly two decades.

The work project hours are: Thursday, June 18th, from 2PM to 5PM, Friday, June 19th, from 2PM to 5PM, and Saturday, June 20th, from 9AM to 11AM. Alumni should meet at Nonstop’s space in the Millworks building at 305 N. Walnut Street in Yellow Springs.

Nonstop Alumni Festival to Feature Academic Freedom/Labor Mini-Conference

Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute will host an Academic Labor/Freedom Mini-Conference this Saturday, June 20th, as part of the Nonstop Summer Alumni Festival. The mini-conference will feature panel presentations by Nonstop and other faculty, moderated by AAUP President and Antioch alum Cary Nelson ’67, and a film screening and discussion.

This semester, Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute had the opportunity to give presentations at the Reworking the University conference at the University of Minnesota. The response from Nonstop’s fellow presenters was enthusiastic and supportive, so much so that some of the conference organizers and presenters from Minneapolis will come to Yellow Springs and participate in this weekend’s mini-conference.

From 12:30PM to 2PM on Saturday, come to a screening and discussion of “Whose University Is It?”, a film about the struggle against corporatization at Trent University in Ontario, with filmmaker James Motluk and academic labor organizer Alison Hearn. At 2:30PM to 6PM, there will be a Panel on Academic Labor/Freedom with Prof. Scott Warren, Prof. Jean Gregorek, Alison Hearn, and others, moderated by AAUP President Cary Nelson ’67.

For those Antioch alumni and other supporters who can’t make it to the Alumni Festival, programming from the entire weekend will be streamed live on the Nonstop homepage along with live chatting capability, so alumni everywhere can connect.

This event will take place at Nonstop’s space in the Millworks building, at 305 N. Walnut Street in Yellow Springs.