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College president Mark Roosevelt and Italian dinner 3/19, seeking chapter organizers, Springer doc 3/17

Mark Roosevelt Meet & Greet

The Antioch College Chicago Alumni Chapter
Presents a meet & greet with new college president Mark Roosevelt
And highlights from Kelly Connolly’s alumni video interviews

Saturday, March 19, 2-4:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Library
1101 W. Taylor St., Chicago
2nd Floor Meeting Room

Taylor Street exit on 90/94, UIC/Racine stops on Blue Line
Small parking lot in back, metered street parking

Dinner after at Tufano’s Restaurant, 5 p.m.
1043 W. Vernon Park Place
3 blocks north of the library

Please rsvp (yes only)
Specify whether you’re attending the meeting, dinner, or both.

Seeking New Chapter Organizers

Three of the four Chicago chapter organizers will step down this year and we are seeking new organizers to step up. The chapter will choose new organizers at a meeting on 5/14, details to be determined. If you’d like to nominate someone, including yourself, feel free to post to this list, or email current organizers:

Kelly Connolly
Jim Hobart
Ed M. Koziarski
Robin Sheerer

Brian Springer’s The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity 3/17

Brian Springer, a friend of Antioch and Nonstop, cocreator of The Antioch Papers and partner of Antioch and Nonstop media arts professor Chris Hill, screens his documentary The Disappointment: Or, The Force of Credulity, about his search for buried treasure on his family’s Missouri farm, including 16th century Spanish gold, Civil War silver, and the diary of anarchist Kate Austin. Springer and Hill will both be there.

Thursday 3/17 at 6 p.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.

“Springer interweaves the stories surrounding these treasures with those of his family to spin a tale of spirit possession, Napalm, Indian massacres, early American opera, fanatical obsessions, 200 tons of dirt, and the way mothers try to protect their families from wounds that never heal.”

Video and notes from 11/14/10 Chicago chapter meeting and video conference with Mark Roosevelt

Posted by Ed Koziarski

I’ve posted video and notes from the 11/14/10 Chicago chapter meeting and video conference with incoming college president Mark Roosevelt.

Notes are here:

http://chicago.chapters.antiochians.org/?p=139

Video in three parts:
1. Jennifer Berman, Community and Governance

http://antiochcollege.blip.tv/file/4392110/

2. Mark Roosevelt Video Conference

http://antiochcollege.blip.tv/file/4394562/


3. Volunteering, Community, Faculty

http://antiochcollege.blip.tv/file/4395260/

The biggest revelations to me were that Roosevelt seemed to indicate room for movement on the limit of 25 students in 2011, and Jennifer’s mention of a plan to house recent alumni on campus to model Antioch community to entering students (wouldn’t it be even better to admit returning students?)

There are a few gaps in the video due to technical problems, most notable of which is the exchange paraphrased below:

Kelly Connolly ’03, chapter organizer: Many of us who graduated from the college have formed very strong relationships with the faculty that we’ve sustained after leaving. The faculty have worked so hard to bring the college back, and they’re been treated so disrespectfully. If they’re not treated with more respect, the college is going to lose alumni who graduated in the 80s, 90s and 00s. If the faculty are not part of the college, we’re going to sustain a relationship with them, and not with the college.

Roosevelt: I understand there are complex legal and ethical issues around faculty hiring, and there are very strong opinions from people who take very different positions on the issue. It hurts to hear you say they’ve been treated disrespectfully. I hope we can come to a resolution, but it’s never going to fully please everybody.

Incoming Antioch College president Mark Roosevelt video conference at 11/14 Chicago alumni meeting

Incoming Antioch College president Mark Roosevelt will participate in a live video conference and discussion during the Sunday, Nov. 14 meeting of the Chicago alumni chapter, 2-4:30 p.m. CST. at Douglas Dawson Gallery, 400 N. Morgan St. in the West Loop.

It’s 1/2 mile northwest of the Lake Street exit on 90/94, or 1/2 mile southwest of the Grand Street Blue Line station. Directions

Roosevelt is tentatively scheduled to begin at 3:15 p.m., following:
—a preview of alumni video interviews on the impact of the Antioch experience by chapter organizer Kelly Connolly ‘03
—a discussion with Jennifer Berman ‘84, executive secretary of the Task Force on Community and Community Governance
—a review of current developments at the college with board member Prexy Nesbitt ‘67 and alumni board communications chair Mark Reynolds ‘80

Please rsvp (yes only)
If you can bring a dish or drink to share, or can help with meeting setup at 1 p.m. or cleanup after, please contact Robin Sheerer ’63.
If you can help with A/V setup beginning at noon, please contact Ed M. Koziarski ’97.
There’s a $5 suggested donation to cover chapter expenses.

We plan to stream video of the meeting live and post a recording soon after. If you can’t make it and have questions you’d like conveyed to Roosevelt, feel free to post them here or at saveantioch. I’ll compile them and pass along as many as we can.

Also, check out alumni board member and University of Illinois professor Paula Treichler ‘65 presenting on The History of the Condom in the Chicago Humanities Festival this Saturday, Nov. 6, 3-4 p.m. at UIC Forum, Main Hall C, 725 W. Roosevelt Road. $5.