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For Immediate Release October 4, 2007

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YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO, Oct. 3 — Antioch College Alumni Association officers, Antioch University Board of Trustees members and Antioch University administrators today reviewed a preliminary draft of a business and fundraising plan to keep Antioch College open. The meeting took place in Denver, Colorado.

The final proposal will be presented here October 25 to the full University Board of Trustees. At that meeting, the Trustees could consider lifting the suspension of Antioch College they have now scheduled for July, 2008.

Alumni Board President Nancy Crow said, “It was helpful that members of the Board of Trustees and the University administration listened openly and made constructive suggestions to our draft plan. We really appreciate the candor from Trustees and their willingness to work together for the common cause of saving Antioch College.”

Last August, the Trustees resolved to “work closely with the Alumni Board to provide due diligence access to all appropriate data” needed to create the plan. College alumni and faculty with expertise in college admissions, finance, and law volunteered to work on the plan. The Alumni Board hired Tracy Filosa, a nationally respected expert in higher education finance, to assist.

Crow said, “The Board of Trustees is fulfilling our request for more information to help us put together a robust plan in a short amount of time. There was open dialogue at the Denver meeting.”
Crow added that the Board of Trustees was “was pleased with the hard work and professionalism that they saw from the Alumni Board.”

Founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch College is a community of students and faculty challenged by vigorous, inter-disciplinary academics. Students learn through campus life, real-life jobs and optional study abroad. They take part in community decision-making, gaining values and interpersonal skills that serve them well no matter what their chosen field. Students gain the self-knowledge and love of learning they need to make a difference in a world where the only constant is change.

Since the Board of Trustees announced the suspension of operations in June of 2007, alumni across the country have raised more than $12 million in cash and pledges to maintain continuous operations of Antioch College with a tenured faculty. Alumni chapters have grown to forty worldwide. Additionally, the Alumni Board also recently premiered its redesigned and reorganized Web site, www.antiochians.org.

The Alumni Board is continuing with its fundraising and planning efforts. For additional information on the Antioch College Alumni Association and its Revival Fund, visit www.antiochians.org.

Dear Creative Antiochian,

I have a fund raising idea that may be a way to create a steady trickle of funds for our efforts to save the college that shaped our creative and personal lives so profoundly. Can it work?

In 1987 I helped form a rock band composed of my best friends at Antioch called simply, THE GITS (after a skit on our favorite late night dorm room TV party show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. All four of us went to Antioch for 4-5 years and two of us graduated.

After graduation 1989 we loaded up a rusty van with our musical equipment and moved to Seattle to begin a career in music. Before leaving Yellow Springs we decided to record an album of the music we wrote and performed at Antioch. We recorded it as a musical yearbook of sorts for our friends, and to have as a demo to take with us to Seattle. That recording, years later, would be recognized as a nascent yet brilliant precurse to the short lived yet critically acclaimed career of THE GITS. This recording became even more important when our singer, friend and Antioch Art student Mia Zapata was murdered on the streets of Seattle in 1993. It remains one of only 3 recorded works she/we produced. We mastered and produced the Yellow Springs demo into a full length CD and entitled it: Kings and Queens.

I would like to donate proceeds from the sale of this CD for a year to the Fund to save Antioch. There is a simple link to a trusted retailer. Here is the link:

Proceeds from the sale we will donate to
help save Antioch. Please note “save antioch” when
ordering CD.

Sincerely,

Steve Moriarty ’89

We, the New York City Antioch College Community, resolve that the College must remain open and become autonomous from the University. We stand behind the Alumni Board, faculty, staff, students of Antioch College and the Yellow Springs community in their efforts to achieve these goals. We will give these efforts our full moral and financial support, using all the resources at our disposal as citizens of the global capital of media, finance, law and the arts.

November 3 – December 31, 2007
Casa Frela Gallery in Harlem, NYC
Opening night gala at 5:00pm

Casa Frela Gallery

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – ALL WILL BE ACCEPTED
Submissions deadline is October 12, 2007

This is a major art show fundraiser and awareness-building event to support the continuance of Antioch College. The exhibition is open to submissions from all in the larger Antioch Community (students, faculty, alumni, staff, villagers, supporters, etc) and encourages the expression of the creative imagination of this Community as testimony to the vitality of the College. We invite you to join our effort to keep Antioch College open, maintain faculty tenure and re-establish independent governance for the College.

Complete details about the event, submission guidelines and application are available here: Casa Frela Gallery

Please spread the word, as this project is a great way to come together as a community to raise money and positive awareness in the media for Antioch College.

Brought to you by the Antioch NYC Alumni Chapter and Casa Frela Gallery

Thanks
Casselli
NYC Chapter