By william

January 8, 2010 3:26 PM | Link to this

Kudos for Antioch and Yellow Springs. Just goes to show what grassroots efforts can do.

By vick

January 8, 2010 4:08 PM | Link to this

Truly fabulous.

By "Marksist"

January 8, 2010 7:34 PM | Link to this

I request “The Internationale” be played at the conclusion of the ceremony. There’s nothing like an uplifting tune dedicated to totalitarianism to bring a smile to all of our comrades faces.

By Frank

January 9, 2010 8:31 AM | Link to this

I’m very glad to hear about the dedication. I’m rooting for the college to get rolling again,as it should be….kudos to Scott, best of luck.

By Wondering

January 9, 2010 9:53 AM | Link to this

Is this going to be another hippie school or are they going to try to educate students in a meaningful way so they can contribute to society?

By WRG

January 9, 2010 7:42 PM | Link to this

You’re right Wondering, that hippie Yellow Springs college, who’s first president was Horace Mann, never produced any alumni that contributed to society in a meaningful way; unless you count some of these folks: Rod Serling - creator of the twilight Zone; Coretta Scott King - author, activist, civil right leader, and widow of Martin Luther King Jr.; David Horowitz - historian and author; Marion Ross - Medal of Honor recipient; Mario Capecchi - co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology; Chester Atkins and Americus Rice - United States Representatives; Stephen Jay Gould - renowned biologist and author; Sylvia Nasar - author of “A Beautiful Mind”; Joan Steitz - professor of molecular biology at Yale University; and Cliff Robertson - Academy Award winning actor… just to name a few. Maybe if you went to one of those hippie colleges you might not be so inclined to say stupid judgmental things.

By Show Me the money

January 9, 2010 7:57 PM | Link to this

Wondering: The direction of the new Antioch is uncertain. It will be determined by those who come up with the money. If you have good ideas about what today’s students need, please donate.

By spell checker

January 9, 2010 8:33 PM | Link to this

Marksist… instead of having a cranial-rectal-inversion, you should go to school and learn to spell - it’s ‘Marxist’ not “Marksist”

By "Marksist"

January 9, 2010 10:43 PM | Link to this

spell checker: Notice the “italics”?>>>nudge-nudge-wink-wink. Yes, a follower of Antioch would know how to spell Marxist. Fell right into it, didn’t you comrade? I knew an anal control freak would comment. Read the last sentence in this comment. Also, why the lower case letters for your name? Poor self esteem? Idiot. You totalitarian elite people are so whacky in your enraged way…so easy to spool up! You’re a complete tool. Saul Alinsky has taught you well.

By David

January 10, 2010 1:28 AM | Link to this

Marksist, you’ve no idea what a totalitarian is if you think the people involved with Antioch are totalitarians.

By Jim

January 10, 2010 7:13 AM | Link to this

I’m still waiting for the story behind Antioch’s demise. Why did the trustees of Antioch University essentially “kill” it? And how did they think that by closing the school for four years that they could reopen it—and have the same institution? A college is not brick and mortar. A college is its faculty and students!

By spell checker

January 10, 2010 1:54 PM | Link to this

“Marksist”… There you go again, inserting your cranium in places it shouldn’t be. There are no “italics’ in either of your posts. Italics refers to the designation of type in which the characters slant upward and to the right, used variously, as to emphasize words, indicate foreign words, or set off book titles, etc. Are you referring to the quotation marks (“”) around your name (note the proper usage of the word - marks)? Were you quoting someone? Do you know the difference? This is where having a good education comes in. You see, saying stupid things, frankly, just makes you look… stupid. And, if I was you - considering where you keep your head - I be careful calling some one an anal freak.

By "Marksist"

January 10, 2010 3:07 PM | Link to this

spell checker: Yes, a literary sphincter checker you are! The more I agitate you, the more you spool…the tool of Antioch spools! I suggest that before you become unraveled, you quote Mao’s book on how to deal with enemies. He will quiet your angst, give you strength, and send you on your quest for superior thought on a failed system…which Antioch followed, AND FAILED. Interesting that your saviours in China are now lecturing the U.S. about capitalism. Interesting that the system Antioch despised (capitalism/money infusion) will have to be used to save your beloved hell hole of proven refuted thought. Generally, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving and your fingers are typing. I suggest that this evening, you take a sleeping pill and a laxative when you go to bed. When you wake up, you’ll be exactly where you always have been. Nudge-nudge-wink-wink?

By WRG

January 10, 2010 3:31 PM | Link to this

I’ve been reading the back and forth between spell checker and Marksist and I think that we all can agree that they both have something in common. Marksist’s comments make him (Marksist) look like a fool and spell checker’s comments make Marksist look like a fool, too. Now that we’ve establish some common ground, can we please move on to something with a little more substance.

By RLW

January 10, 2010 6:30 PM | Link to this

WRG, you miss the crucial point. The people you mentioned attended the ‘old’ Antioch before it began its decline in the 1960’s. Before this time it was a good school. I wonder how good Antioch was considered in the period before its closing. Apparently most alumni did not feel inclined to make contributions to keep it going in recent decades. The decline in enrollment would seem to indicate it was not being valued by prospective students. From what I can gather it was mostly older alumni who fought to keep the school open not those of recent decades. I tend to agree with wWdering if Antioch works to become a more mainstream liberal arts college I wish it success. It was this type of school that produced the people you offered as examples.

By WRG

January 10, 2010 8:54 PM | Link to this

Since it’s inception in 1853, Antioch was never a traditional liberal arts college; it was more of a cutting edge institution. Antioch was one of the first colleges to offer equal educational opportunities to both male and female students. It was one of the first colleges to accept African Americans as students. It was also the first college to offer the same pay and stature to their female professors as they did their male professors. From its early days, its approach to teaching was different than most other universities. Courses of study weren’t based solely on tradition styles, they relied more on a mixture of work experience and classroom activities combined with community involvement; a kind of educational cooperative - a formula that was used up until its closing in 2008. It also did not use academic letter grades; instead it relied on narrative evaluation. While its true that I didn’t mention many resent graduates, most of the alumni that I did mentioned graduated during a period (starting in the 1940’s) that was noted for the activism of its students; another concept that remained in effect until its most recent closing. Because of its size - less than 500 students on average - Antioch has always had financial problems which, not unlike today, forced it to closed for years at a time. It’s always been difficult to run a non conventional institution of Antioch’s caliber by relying on tuition alone. And, were it not for the support of Antioch’s recent alumni, its current rebirth would not have been possible. One should not under estimate Antioch’s importance throughout history nor should one fail to understand the impact its uniqueness has had on that history. To aspire for Antioch to merely be another average liberal arts college is to aspire for it to be another Wright State. And no, I’m not putting down Wright State; I’m just saying that each has its place, and Antioch’s is to be what it has always been - a first class alternative to traditional learning.

By WRG

January 10, 2010 9:08 PM | Link to this

A small correction: I inadvertently deleted part of a sentence concerning Antioch’s enrollment. It should have read - less than 500 students during its early years and less than 2000 on average more recently. My apologies for the error.

By Jon

February 12, 2010 1:49 PM | Link to this

Why not invite a cop killer or some of your Favorite Dictators to Speak at the opening, have HAHA Pizza cater it so everyone can MELLOW out and tell each how much you HATE AMERICA.