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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 21, 2011 – The Antioch Review and the Antioch College Writing Institute will host a special reading by 2010 National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon, beginning at 7 p.m., Tuesday, January 17, in McGregor Hall on the College’s campus. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

In addition to a reading from Gordon’s latest novel, Lord of Misrule, the event will include a book signing and question and answer session.

Gordon, a 1966 graduate of Antioch College, is the author of four novels. In addition to the National Book Award for Fiction, Lord of Misrule was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year’s best book about horse racing and was longlisted for the Indie Booksellers Choice Award for 2011. Published on November 15, 2010 and now in its third printing, Lord of Misrule is a national bestseller with more than 45,000 hardcover copies in print.

Gordon’s previous novels include Bogeywoman, She Drove Without Stopping, and Shamp of the City-Solo. She has been a Fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and has also won an Academy-Institute Award for her fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gordon currently teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.

From the publisher: Lord of Misrule
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts are all struggling to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters — scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain — through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.

Horseman Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing stable: He'll ship four unknown but ready horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claiming races at long odds, and then gut out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the Northern Panhandle, everybody notices — veteran groom Medicine Ed, Kidstuff the blacksmith, old lady "gyp" Deucey Gifford, stall superintendent Suitcase Smithers, eventually even the ruled-off "racetrack financier" Two-Tie and the ominous leading trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no one bothers to factor in Tommy Hansel's go-fer girlfriend, Maggie Koderer. Like the beautiful, used-up, tragic horses she comes to love, Maggie has just enough heart to wire everyone's flagging hopes back to the source of all luck.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jennifer Jolls
Assistant Director of Communications
phone: 937-768-3343
jjolls@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 3, 2011 – Antioch College moved closer to instituting a formal community governance process with the establishment of a Council of Conveners, Community Life Dean Louise Smith announced.

Comprised of students, staff and administrators, the council is a representative body that will be charged with working on various communitywide policies and issues, such as the campus smoking policy.

“The Council of Conveners is the next step in formalizing governance structures that have been in process since we first gathered at the start of the year,” Smith said.

Students, staff, and faculty have long participated in the College's governance. Historically, there have been two major councils: One deals with administrative policy, and the other with the quality of campus and community life.

Because of the small size of the campus community, the Community Life office adopted a small group model of community governance to give Antioch College’s newest generation of students a major say in redefining the structures for shared governance on campus.

Representative conveners are elected by small community groups that include students, faculty, staff and college administrators. Representatives were chosen at the November 2 Community Meeting.

Elected Conveners

• Guy Matthews, student
• Nargees Jumahan, student
• Jenn Wheeler, student
• Kaleigh Harris, student
• Jennifer Jolls, assistant director of communications

Ex Officio

• Louise Smith, dean of community life
• Randle Charles, Resident life manager
• Community Life assistants: Eva Erickson, Frey Acton, Eros, Sara Brooks

The Council will meet soon to define its charge and processes. More information about the Council of Conveners will be available at the November 16 Community Meeting.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
phone: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 2, 2011 – Antioch College dedicated a faculty/student gathering space in McGregor Hall as the Gerber Seminar Room during an October 22 ceremony.

Named for alumnus Peter H. Gerber ’69, the space also honors the memory of Richard H. “Micky” McCleery, a longtime professor of political science who was Gerber’s mentor.

Gerber, along with Trustee David Goodman ’69, traveled with McCleery to Hawaii to assist in the creation of an alternative learning community that would be an inspiration for what would become the Kaua’i Community College. McCleery, who never returned to Yellow Springs, died in October 2009.

Gerber and his wife, Julia Wang Miller, were present at the dedication ceremony attended by Goodman, other members of the Board, and college employees and alumni.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in 1969, Gerber attained his master’s at the University of Northern Colorado in 1973. He is a founding partner of The EdDesigns Group, Senior Advisor to Young Audiences (national office), special advisor to the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, and chairman of the National Advisory Board for the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning (CELL), University of Indianapolis. He is the former executive director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Education Foundation, and founder-advisor of the South Florida Annenberg Challenge.

About Antioch College

Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
phone: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org