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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

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 25, 2011 – A special 400+ page edition of the Antioch Review is now available. The issue celebrates the literary journal’s 70th year of existence and features some of the best work published by the Review in the last decade.

Founded in 1941 by a group of Antioch College faculty who sought to establish a political forum from which the voice of liberalism could be heard, the Antioch Review is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America. Today, moving beyond the social and political agenda of its founding editors, the journal publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from emerging and established authors.

The 70th anniversary issue includes Pushcart prize winners, National Magazine Award finalists, selections included in Best American Mystery and Best of the West anthologies, essays by three Antiochians and work by the journal’s advisory board members. The issue is available for purchase ($15) at http://antiochcollege.org/antioch_review/current_issue and in more than 400 bookstores around the country.

Robert Fogarty, editor since 1977, is proud of the Review’s reputation.

“Librarians from Delhi to Dresden know us, writers and critics read us, and two generations of readers remember the Review for a particular article, story, or poem that caught their imagination,” he said.

Fogarty reports that an electronic edition of the Review should be available sometime next year.

About the Antioch Review

The Antioch Review, published quarterly since 1941, features fiction, essays, and poetry from emerging and established authors. Review competes with The American Scholar, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. Authors published in its pages are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart prizes. Robert S. Fogarty has served as its editor since 1977.

FALL 2011 70th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE

Editorial

Robert S. Fogarty

Fiction

Aimee Bender, The 20th-Century War Veteran Club
Rick DeMarinis, Odessa
Gordon Lish, Physis Versus Nomos
Lee Montgomery,The Things Between Us
Risteard O'Keitinn,Dogged
Nathan Oates,The Empty House
Edith Pearlman, Aunt Telephone
Benjamin Percy, In the Rough
Julio Ramón Ribeyro, trans. by John Penuel, Miss Fabiola
Leon Rooke, How to Write a Successful Short Story
Melanie Rae Thon, Tu B'Shavat: faor the Drowned and the Saved
Uwe Timm, trans. by Robert C. Conard, The Coat
Katherine Vaz, East Bay Grease

Essays

Daniel Bell, Ethics and Evil: Frameworks for Twenty-First Century Culture
Bruce Fleming, The Deep Springs College Cowboy Lunch
Robert S. Fogarty, Memoirs True and False
Clifford Geertz, Young Man Geertz: A Senior Paper
WIlliam Giraldi, The Physics of Speed
Stephen Jay Gould, Ground Zero
Judith Hall, What to Read, What to Praise
Daniel Harris, Celebrity Deaths
Neil MacGregor, A Pentecost in Trafalgar Square
Kenneth A. McClane, Driving
Maureen McCoy, Vickie's Pour House: A Soldier's Peace
Sallie Tisdale, Twitchy

Poetry

Elizabeth Alexander, Emancipation
Eavan Boland, Is It Still the Same
Lucille Clifton, i take my glasses off
Alice Fulton, Call Me You-Boat
Terrance Hayes , A Small Novel
David Huerta, Index, translated by Mark Schafer
Mieczyslaw Jastrun, Wall, translated by Jeff Friedman and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Hedi Kaddour, The Warm Shadow, translated by Marilyn Hacker
Richard Kenney, New Year, with Nipperkin
David Lehman, The Old Constellation
Federico Garcia Lorca, Lola, translated by Ralph Angel
Amit Majmudar, By Accident
Aoyama Miuki, Hollyhocks, translated by Malinda Markham
Mong-Lan, Bangkok [neon lights]
Jacqueline Osherow, At the Wailing Wall
F. D. Reeve, Violets in a Pewter Vase
Tomaz Salamun, The Huge White Creature, translated by Brian Henry
Ntozake Shange, The Lizard Series I
Peter Jay Shippy, Daphnis and Chloe
Gerald Stern, Against Whistling
David Wagoner, Rara Avis
G. C. Waldrep, What is a Bass
Susan Wheeler, Alzheimer's Rag
Ghassan Zaqtan, Everything as It Was, translated by Fady Joudah

Et Cetera

John Taylor, Poetry Today: Melvin Tolson

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MEDIA CONTACT:
Jennifer Jolls
Assistant Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
jjolls@antiochcollege.org

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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 23, 2011 –
The Antioch College Board of Trustees authorized College administrators to move ahead with plans for a $5.4 million renovation of North Hall, one of three original buildings on the 160-year-old campus, President Mark Roosevelt said.

“If we are successful in reaching our recruiting goal next year—and we think we will be—we will not have enough beds in Birch to house all of our new students,” Roosevelt said. “Restoring one of our original campus buildings would also be an incredibly important symbolic win for us as we continue to rebuild Antioch College.”

Scheduled to begin in November, the North Hall renovation is based on plans submitted by Pittsburgh firm MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni after several visits to campus and meetings with a steering committee that included senior administrators, faculty, and representatives of the Board of Trustees’ facilities committee.

The plan would add a full-service kitchen, an apartment, larger bathrooms, and four doubles (eight beds) on the first floor. Floors two through four would each have 15 doubles (30 beds) and singles for resident hall advisors. The upper floors would also have kitchenettes and at least two lounges or common areas. An elevator would be installed to make the building ADA compliant.

In keeping with the College’s focus on sustainability, the renovation includes several green features: double rooms and shared bathrooms; improvements to the building’s envelope; low-flow plumbing fixtures; a geothermal mechanical system; lighting controls; heat recovery systems; low VOC materials; repurposed furniture; and use of regional materials. Once the renovation is complete, the contractor would seek LEED certification, recognized national standard for measuring building sustainability.

Antioch College enrolled 35 full-time, residential students this fall. Next year, the College hopes to enroll at least 75 first-year students. The only functioning dormitory, Birch Hall, can house 108 residents. With approximately 28,000 square feet, North Hall would accommodate an additional 101 students in double rooms. The second dorm would provide the campus with enough room to house a new class as well as the live-in resident life managers to provide around-the-clock management and supervision of the dormitories.

Designed by A.M. Merrifield of Worcester, Massachusetts, North Hall was primarily a women’s dormitory, though it housed male students while South Hall—the men’s dormitory—was being completed. Horace Mann, the college’s first president, and his family lived in two rooms on the second floor until their house was finished. At the time of construction, Antioch’s dormitories were larger than any at Harvard—a fact the College was quite proud of.

Modern plumbing was installed in the 1920s, under the direction of President Arthur Morgan who called the previous sanitation facilities “an indescribable antediluvian scandal.” Prior to the plumbing upgrade, students used an octagonal sanitation tower several stories high that was connected to North Hall by bridges.

North Hall survived several fires, including a chimney fire in January 1866 and a larger, more destructive fire in February 1953 that completely gutted the building. The 100-year-old shell survived the blaze and the interior was renovated with steel beams and wrought iron furniture.

This will be the fifth campus building to be restored or renovated since Antioch College regained its independence in the fall of 2009.

The Olive Kettering Library was the only College building to remain open after the 2008 closure. Crumbling bricks on the building’s south-facing wall were replaced. In January 2010, College leaders rededicated South Hall after the building’s interior was again renovated for use as the College’s central administration building. Birch Hall, the dormitory, and McGregor Hall, a classroom and office building, were both renovated in preparation of the arrival of students and faculty.

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
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org