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Update on Dismissal & Appeal

The day before thanksgiving Judge Wolover dismissed the faculty lawsuit, arguing essentially that he has no authority to rule on our case.  His frame of reference was that the Court could not question a business decision (even if it was a bad one), and that the complaint was in the nature of personal services contract issues, and the faculty had other remedies available to them (suing for damages due to breach of contract).  Tuesday December 1, the faculty legal group conferred by phone with Evan Price, our attorney and voted unanimously to move forward immediately with an appeal.  Evan reports that because the judge ruled on a matter of law, not on the facts of our case, that an appeal will be (legally speaking) straightforward.  It will involve a relatively short  brief, and a response to the other side’s brief.  The appeal will move quickly through the appeal court process (20-day intervals for filing, responding, responding to response, and a time certain for the Appellate court) and we could have a decision by April.  Evan thinks we have a good chance of winning our appeal, in which case the complaint would be sent back to Judge Wolover for continuation.

The appeals court consists of a three judge panel, from among the five listed below.  We are in the Ohio 2nd Court, see below.

Ohio Second Court of Appeals:
Appellate Judges:
James A. Brogan
Mike Fain
William H. Wolff, Jr.
Mary E. Donovan
Thomas J. Grady

Clark County Courthouse
101 N. Limestone Street
Springfield, Ohio 45502

Ph.: 937.328.2653
Fax: 937.328.2652

Online resources:
District 2 Opinions
Weekly Docket
Local Rules
found at:
www.sconet.state.oh.us/District_Courts/Districts/dc02.asp

See attached documents for more information:

New website at WWW.ANTIOCHIANS.ORG

New www.Antiochians.Org WebsiteWe have begun deploying a brand new website at

http://www.antiochians.org/

Please go there and check it out. The old site at http://antiochians.org/ (note the lack of www in the address) will no longer be updated with any new information and is being kept up for archival purposes. Once relevant content has all been moved over this will be shut down.

Note – At this time the following other areas of the ‘old’ website are still active and in use:

and of course there’s all sorts of great stuff happening over at The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute http://nonstopinstitute.org/

See you on the new site.

Detroit / Ann Arbor / Northern Ohio Event – Sunday November 16, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOCAL FUNDRAISER TO SAVE ANTIOCH COLLEGE

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/