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DRAFT PLAN TO KEEP ANTIOCH COLLEGE OPEN DISCUSSED BY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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.

THE GITS WANT TO SAVE ANTIOCH–AND THEY NEED YOUR HELP!

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: Gits Cover Art

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

Sincerely,

Steve Moriarty ’89

Statement of Support from the New York City Antioch College Community

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.

Antioch documentarians win Emmy, produce Revival video

From the Yellow Springs News • September, 13 2007 • By Diane Chiddister

When filmmakers Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert attended the Emmy awards in Los Angeles last weekend, the last thing they expected was to win. They were thrilled just to be there, to have A Lion in the House, their documentary about children with cancer which was shown on PBS, nominated as one of three in the category for outstanding achievement in nonfiction film.

Also nominated were Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts, an HBO special series on New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a film they greatly admired, and Jonestown, The Life and Death of the People’s Temple, by Stanley Nelson, another well-known documentary maker. “We went there totally expecting Spike Lee would win,” Reichert said in an interview Tuesday. “Our plan was to just go out, get dressed up, have some fun and not sweat it.”

But their plans fell through. Instead, A Lion in the House won an Emmy.

Last weekend’s Emmy event, which covered documentaries and other creative and technical categories, will be broadcast this Saturday at 8 p.m. on the E! cable channel. The Emmy awards for fiction productions will be broadcast on network television this Sunday. Lion shared the award with Lee’s film.

The first clue that their plan to just relax and not win anything was going awry occurred last Friday evening, according to Reichert, when at a party one of the judges took them aside and said she had only one piece of advice: be prepared.

“We thought, ‘oh my god, we’d better write a speech,” Reichert said.

And they did, then rehearsed in the car on the way to the ceremony.

When their names were called, Reichert spoke in her speech about the journey they took while making their film, in which they followed the families of five children with cancer. The children were patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, whose chief of oncology initiated the film process soon after Reichert’s daughter, Lela Reichert-Klein, recovered from cancer herself, a fact unknown by the oncologist when he chose the filmmakers.

“You always take a journey when you make a documentary,” she said. “Ours took us to witness the best of humanity.”

In his speech, Bognar thanked, among others, the parents who let the filmmakers spend six years filming as they struggled with the worst that life has to offer, a child with cancer. And they named and thanked the five children, of whom two lived and three died.

“This film is their legacy,” Reichert said. “It’s what lives on.”

Especially gratifying, according to Reichert, was sharing the award with a few of the children’s family members who traveled to Los Angeles, along with an entourage of co-workers and former students who helped on the film, including Los Angeles film editors Jaime Myers and Kevin Jones, former students in the Wright State University film production class taught by Reichert. Also attending the ceremony was the film’s associate producer, Karen Durgans, of Yellow Springs.

After the ceremony, everyone had a grand time at the Emmy gala, which included huge vases of white calla lillies, great food, and a band that played Motown hits.

“We just got up in our gowns and started to dance,” Reichert said. “We were the last to leave the party.”

Art Show Fund-raiser for Antioch College in NYC: Submissions from Antioch Community Wanted

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.

The Postcard Show

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

The Word of the Week is “Progress.”

Alumni Update, Friday, September 14, 2007

RAISING DOUGH: Our Revival fund has reached a total of $12 million in cash and pledges, an amount equal to the entire endowment of Bennington College. Donors have earmarked the money to be used only for the continuation of Antioch as a residential undergraduate College with a tenured faculty that is moving toward a system of self-governance.

DEVELOPING THE PLAN: In about a week, Dixie Maurer-Clemons will widely circulate for comments and ideas a draft of the Antioch College Revitalization Business Plan. Alumni Board Treasurer Rick Daily, who is coordinating the development of the plan, stresses that “we want as many people as possible to see the draft and give input.” Meanwhile, the Alumni Board is exploring the possibility of hiring a well-respected financial planner to help craft the final version.

SHARING THE PLAN: University Board of Trustees President Art Zucker will travel to Denver in early October to meet with Alumni Board President Nancy Crow and other Alumni Board members and Trustees. They’ll discuss progress being made in the development of the Revitalization Plan. A formal presentation of the completed plan to the entire Board of Trustees is scheduled to take place in Yellow Springs the last weekend in October.

MOVING DEVELOPMENT: The Antioch College Development staff is not only being expanded, it is being given its own home – Weston Hall. Alums Ellen Borgerson and Matt Derr have been on campus these past two weeks working with Risa Grimes and the rest of the development staff.

TEACHING FROM LIFE: In the best tradition of Antioch College, faculty and students are using the current crisis as a learning tool. This weekend, September 14-16, faculty, alumni, staff and students will discuss, teach and learn about the organizing, planning, financing and research techniques that are being employed to address the current situation and to save Antioch.