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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

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – October 21, 2011 – An exhibition exploring the intersections between mathematics and arts will come to an end with a closing symposium Nov. 4-6 at Antioch College. Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection was originally curated by John Sims ‘90 for the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. It focuses on the visual language of mathematical ideas and process as a way to explore a spectrum of themes from geometric landscapes to the socio-political.

Miami Valley visual artists, poets, dancers, musicians, community members and students are invited to attend the closing symposium. Events begin Friday evening at 7 p.m. and continue throughout the weekend, including a gallery talk, artist talk, mad poetry workshop, film screening, panel discussion and community response. All events are free to the public and reservations are not needed.

Visiting New York poet Kristin Prevallet, along with Yvonne Seon, John Booth, Maria Booth, Bomani Moyenda, Ella Miller Toy, Bing Davis and Kevin Dean, will be featured in the closing symposium.

The community is invited to present poetic responses to the exhibition during the open mic section of the program at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. The Community Response segment will be followed by an after-party reception at the Herndon Gallery.

Symposium schedule

Friday, November 4
7 p.m. | Closing Gallery Talk | “Rhythm of Structure: the Journey” | by Curator John Sims
@ Antioch College, Herndon Gallery

Saturday, November 5
10 a.m. | Oulipo: Mathematical Poetry | Presentation and mad poetry workshop by Kristin Prevallet
@ Antioch College, McGregor Hall, Room 113

11 a.m. | Birth of a Math Artist | by John Sims
@ Antioch College, McGregor Hall, Room 113

2 p.m. | Screening of Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art, and Poetic Reflection
@ The Little Art Theatre, 247 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs

7 p.m. | Community Response | Featuring Kristin Prevallet, John Booth, Maria Booth, Bomani Moyenda, Ella Miller and Yvonne Seon
Open mic responses with available blues music to accompany. After-party reception sponsored by AACW.
@ Antioch College, Herndon Gallery

Sunday, November 6
1 p.m. | Math, Art and Poetry Panel Discussion | John Sims, Bing Davis, Kevin Dean and Kristin Prevallet

@ Antioch College, Herndon Gallery

About the curator

Sims graduated Antioch College with a math degree in 1990. The next year, he organized the inaugural Cross-Cultural Field Program in conjunction with African American Cultural Week. These efforts resulted in the development of the current African American Cultural Works (AACW)—a nonprofit, community-based group that recognizes cultural heritage and celebrates diversity by organizing, promoting and hosting events.

Today, Sims is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist, creating multimedia projects spanning the areas of mathematics, art, text, performance and political-media activism. His main projects are informed by the vocabulary of mathematical structure, the politics of sacred symbols and poetry as ally to the visual arts. As the former coordinator of mathematics at Ringling College Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, he designed a visual mathematics curriculum for artists and visual thinkers. Sims has curated more than 15 mathematical art exhibitions and has lectured and exhibited nationally and internationally, including Hungary, Spain, Israel and Argentina. His work has been featured in Nature, Sculpture, BOMB magazine, FiberArts, NYArts, Science News, CNN, New York Times and the Washington Post. Learn more about Sims at www.johnsimsprojects.com.

About the exhibition

Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflection is the product of a yearlong series of shows that premiered at the Bowery Poet Club in New York City in 2009. It features major contemporary artists Sol LeWitt, Adrian Piper, Karen Finley, DJ Spooky, Dread Scott, Ken Hiratsuka, John Sims, Paulus Gerdes, John Hiigli, Vandorn Hinnant and many others.

The series of exhibitions and performances connect mathematics to the process of art to the voice of poetry, exploring the multidimensional nature of structure from the geometric to conceptual to social to the metaphysical. Topics range from love to the lotto, from sacred geometry to quilts, and tessellation to mathematical graffiti.
To stimulate a dialogue around the use of structure and promote reflection via the poetic lens, poets have been invited to respond to the work forming the basis of a documentary film and catalog, which will be available for purchase at the symposium.

The exhibition, which premiered May 18 at Antioch College, can be viewed through Nov. 6 in Herndon Gallery on the campus. Gallery hours are 1:00-4:00 p.m., Tuesdays through Sunday.

For more information about the closing symposium, contact Sara Black at sblack@antiochcollege.org.

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

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – September 25, 2011 – Maya Nye '99, former co-leader of the Environmental Field Program, has returned to Antioch College as an alumni relations officer for volunteer management.

Working with Alumni Relations Director Stacey Wirrig, Nye is responsible for maintaining a comprehensive volunteer program. Her work includes volunteer recruitment, training, and recognition. In addition to scheduling various campus work projects, she will serve as liaison to the Miami Valley Alumni Chapter.

Nye, who earned a B.A. in theater and environmental studies, was co-leader of the Environmental Field Program in 1999-2000. In that post, she developed and implemented the traveling undergraduate academic program focused on social and environmental justice issues.

She left the college for a position as company administrator and summer arts camp director at the Charleston State Company in Charleston, West Virginia. Nye directed day-to-day operations and raised funds for the nonprofit theater company for five years. During that time, she also taught a theatre laboratory course at West Virginia State University.

Beginning in 2008, she worked as an arts in education coordinator at the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. That year, she also began volutneering as spokesperson, director and president of People Concerned About M.I.C./People Concerned about Chemical Safety, a grass-roots effort to end the production and mass storage of methyl isocyanate in her home state.

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

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – September 25, 2011 – Maya Nye '99, former co-leader of the Environmental Field Program, has returned to Antioch College as an alumni relations officer for volunteer management.

Working with Alumni Relations Director Stacey Wirrig, Nye is responsible for maintaining a comprehensive volunteer program. Her work includes volunteer recruitment, training, and recognition. In addition to scheduling various campus work projects, she will serve as liaison to the Miami Valley Alumni Chapter.

Nye, who earned a B.A. in theater and environmental studies, was co-leader of the Environmental Field Program in 1999-2000. In that post, she developed and implemented the traveling undergraduate academic program focused on social and environmental justice issues.

She left the college for a position as company administrator and summer arts camp director at the Charleston State Company in Charleston, West Virginia. Nye directed day-to-day operations and raised funds for the nonprofit theater company for five years. During that time, she also taught a theatre laboratory course at West Virginia State University.

Beginning in 2008, she worked as an arts in education coordinator at the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. That year, she also began volunteering as spokesperson, director and president of People Concerned About M.I.C./People Concerned about Chemical Safety, a grass-roots effort to end the production and mass storage of methyl isocyanate in her home state.

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

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – September 23, 2011 – Three years after closing, Antioch College welcomes thirty-five new students on Saturday, September 24, for first-year orientation. Classes begin Oct. 4.

An undergraduate, liberal arts college, Antioch College pioneered the innovative cooperative education program that requires its students to complete full-time periods of paid work as part of their education. The College was also one of the first fully coeducational and racially integrated college in the U.S. The College’s closure, in 2008, received national media attention.

In the fall of 2009, an alumni-led group purchased the campus and other college assets, including its Glen Helen Nature Preserve, and began the work of rebuilding the college. Mark Roosevelt, the former superintendent of Pittsburgh Schools and a former Massachusetts legislator, became the college’s new president.

“Antioch College has always been about innovation, even in its earliest days when Horace Mann, the father of American public education, was its president,” Roosevelt said. “Our reopening pushes the envelope and goes against current trends in higher education. What we propose is to provide students with the broad knowledge, skills and critical capacity to address some of the most critical issues facing mankind today.”

Antioch’s education—the college offers the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees—requires students to complete a broad array of Foundation courses, Global Seminars on critical issues surrounding sustainability, and design individualized majors with faculty. All students complete six terms of full-time work, with the final job assignment abroad or in a multicultural setting that requires them to use the skills gained in a language minor.

Admission to Antioch College this year carried with it the Horace Mann Fellowship award, which covers full tuition for all four years. Additionally, fellows have the opportunity to be mentored by stellar alumni and friends of the College. This opportunity appealed to many top-achieving students from throughout the country.

The class of 2015 class enters with an average unweighted high school grade point average of 3.56. Most completed rigorous post-secondary education curricula, including International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, and Honors courses. One student was a National Merit Scholar Finalist and two others were Semifinalists for the award.

Sixteen students completed some college coursework prior to applying to Antioch College, and ten have spent some time studying or traveling abroad. Eighteen speak at least one foreign language: ten speak Spanish, one speaks Japanese, four speak French, and one student is fluent in Hindi, Hazaragi and Dari.

Nine students are Ohio residents, four are from Texas, three are from New York, three from Pennsylvania, and three from California. Other students are from Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

A tremendous number of students have done work in sustainability. Their biographies include stints farming in developing countries, working in agriculture and biodiversity, village construction and environmental conservation in Central America and South America, and organic farming in South America.

Their academic interests are also wide ranging: ecological or sustainable architecture, sustainability and rural development, animation, African American studies, creative writing, philosophy, literature, and more.

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