An Interview with Ted Bunch ‘83

Date: 6/18/2009 to 7/18/2009
by Tim Eubanks ‘00

Antioch alumnus Ted Bunch ‘83 is a national leader with A CALL TO MEN which works to end violence against women by facilitating a national movement of men who see that as their mission.  All across the country anti-violence organizations benefit from Ted’s ideas and his passion.

So what is the connection between Ted’s Antioch education and his current national work?  I sat down with Ted to find out…

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.

Bob Devine will Teach Last Class of Media & Social Change at Alumni Festival

Archived Video of Media and Social Change from live web-broadcast, June 19, 2009

Media and Social Change – Part 1 of 2

Media and Social Change – Part 2 of 2

Pre-event Announcement:
This Friday, June 19th, Bob Devine ‘68 will teach a session of his Media & Social Change class as part of the Nonstop Institute’s Summer Alumni Festival. This class has been a favorite of many Antioch students over the 20 years that Bob has been teaching it. Bob is retiring at the end of this semester and this session will be his last class – it is not to be missed!

Media & Social Change played a vital role in Antioch’s communications curriculum. In this last session of the class, Bob will look back to the 20 years that he has been teaching the class and “explore the paradigm shift in social change media during those years — from content distribution to interaction and the building of relationships — with some comments on the communications and organization relative to the saving of the College.” From documentary films of the 60’s and 70’s, to public access, to social networking media, Bob will discuss how we use media to shape the world around us and how it shapes us.

Alumni and friends who cannot make it to the Summer Alumni Festival this weekend will be able to watch a live video feed of Bob’s class and other programming on www.nonstopinstitute.org. A chat window will be in place to allow viewers to talk about the programming.

Bob Devine has thirty years of teaching in the general field of Communications, fifteen years in CEO and leadership roles in non-profit organizations, and credits on several dozen documentary film and video productions. His teaching fields include communications theory, social theory, film history, cultural studies, community media and the use of democratic and participatory media for social change. Other areas of teaching interest include African-American film, Labor and film, and the First Amendment.

Bob Devine will teach the class from 12:30AM to 2PM on Friday, June 19th at Nonstop’s space in the Millworks building, at 305 N. Walnut Street in Yellow Springs.