August 22, 08

Hi from Tex (David) Allen, '66 (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

The annual and very depressing list of "Best Colleges In America" was just released by the US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, and Antioch College Ohio is not there, sadly.

Here's the link:

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/105598/Best-Colleges-...

July 31, 08

Hi from Tex Allen '66 (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

July 17, 2008

Hi from Tex Allen, Antioch College Ohio alumnus (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

Even though Antioch College Ohio is now closed down (as of June 30, 2008), several Antioch College Ohio interest websites continue to keep memories and discussion about Antioch College Ohio alive.

The oldest is WWW.AntiRecord.Org (est. 1998) and other have followed.

One other site called THE BLAZE was started by the BLAZE COLLECTIVE (contact information below) and that site has requested contributions and writing pieces for its site.

What follows is a reply I wrote to the Antioch College Ohio alumni chatline to a message posted by THE BLAZE COLLECTIVE today, July 17, 2008, urging Antioch College Ohio supporters and others to provide writing contributions to ALL Antioch College Ohio cyberspace and other publications so discussion and memories of Antioch College Ohio will be kept alive, even though the school currently (July 2008) is closed down:

July 10, 08

Hi from Tex Allen (aka David Allen, aka Yazz Allen), Antich '66 (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

Antioch University Board Of Trustee former member (until May 9....she quit very recently) Paula Treichler published the following in INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION today, July 10, 2008, about the Antioch College Ohio closedown which took effect June 30, 2008.

She provides much "inside information" about the Antioch U. BOT worth reading.

Here's what she wrote:

July 6, 08

Hi from Tex Allen, Antioch College Ohio alumnus (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

Attacks on Antioch College Ohio by media personalities who themselves were Antioch College alumni were used as ammunition by naysayers anxious to support the Antioch College Ohio closedown which finally (and tragically) occured last June 30, 2008 (7 days ago!).

People part of the Antioch alumni community dissatisfied with events and power personalities part of Antioch College voiced objections, and this was used by Antioch College Ohio critics and enemies to justify support of the Antioch College Ohio closedown.

Antioch College Ohio was closed down importantly due to media attacks supporting the closedown (national right wing political writer George Will wrote an infamous attack in Fall of 2008, and there were many others by right wing writers and personalities of both fame and obscurity).

Understanding the history of Antioch College Ohio, why it was shut down, and what part recollections of controversies part of Antioch College Ohio's past played, requires a knowledge and review of "Anti-Antioch public writing."

What follows is a dredging up of the infamous Sexual Offense Prevention Policy of 1993 by a radio talk show host and journalist named David Benzion, who was (and is) an Antioch alumnus, class of 1994.

July 6, 08

Hi from Tex Allen, Antioch College Ohio alumnus (email directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com)!

The tragic closedown of Antioch College Ohio residential undergraduate program in Yellow Springs, Ohio which took place on June 30, 2008 (7 days ago!) by the Antioch University Board Of Trustees (aka "AUBOT") headed by Antioch University chairman Arthur Zucker, Antioch 55, and Toni Murdock, Chancellor of Antioch University, was accomplished in part by selective "histories" part of attacks by media professionals hostile to Antioch College, Ohio and anxious to support the efforts to close the school down.

Those interested in the history of Antioch College Ohio and the reasons for its closedown (and the justifications for that closedown in the eyes of the school's many enemies) would do well to examine the following well and carefully written account of the Antioch College Ohio "closedown crisis" submitted by journalist Charlotte Allen, famous for her work attacking "liberal" education approaches and schools like Antioch College Ohio. Ms. Allen (no relation to me) helped close down Antioch College Ohio with the following article which provides scholarly detail about Antioch College Ohio, selectively and self-interestedly presented, de-emphasizing important facts and accomplishments of Antioch College Ohio and its leaders over the years she covers, and making the "case for the prosecution" in November 2007 when the "jury was still out" and the fate of Antioch College Ohio still hung in the balance, was not yet decided.

July 3, 08

Hi from Tex Allen, Antioch College alumnus (Email me at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

Antioch College Ohio undergraduate residential college was totally closed last Monday, June 30, 2008, and the follow very well written and touching obituary was posted on the WWW.StormComing.Org website...worth reading.

Here it is

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July 26, 08

Hi from Tex Allen, Antioch College Ohio alumnus (email me at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

Here is a report from the Yellow Springs NEWS describing the events of the the June 19-22, 2008 Antioch College Ohio reunion and discussion/ plans aimed at re-opening Antioch College Ohio and/or pursuing a lawsuit regarding the closedown of Antioch College Ohio.

At present, the entire Antioch College Ohio undergraduate campus is set to be closed down completely on June 30, 2008.

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June 16, 08

Hi from Tex (aka Yazz aka David) Allen '66 (Email me at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

Antioch alumni I've been in contact with have emailed me recently and asked if Antioch College Ohio will reopen after being closed down by the Antioch University Board Of Trustees in June 2008.

I've replied to several people, and laid out the facts as I see them briefly, and hopefully without tears. The closing of Antioch College Ohio is a terrible (and unneccessary) tragedy, but it appears to be a done deal. Time to face up to that, and move on....respectfully.

Here, FYI, is the text of my summary of what happened, and why. I may not be correct and Antioch College Ohio may indeed re-open again soon or at least someday. I hope that happens.

Meanwhile, here's what I've replied to Antiochians who contacted me, asked if Antioch will re-open, and "what happened?"

June 9, 08

Hi from Tex (aka Yazz aka David) Allen '66 (Email me at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):

The President of the official Antioch College Ohio Alumni Assn., Ms. Nancy Crowe '70 (a tax lawyer in the Denver CO USA area), sent an email to all Antioch College alumni dated June 7, 08 stating that the Antioch University Board Of Trustees has offered to "give" Antioch College Ohio to the Antioch Alumni Assn. and disconnect the Yellow Springs Ohio residential college from the other schools and administration part of "Antioch University," with three west coast USA campuses, one in New Hampshire, and one in Ohio (the McGregor Business School).

Here is the text of Ms. Crowe's message, followed by analysis I provided today to the Antioch College chatline in reply to an Antioch alumnus who asked "What does this all mean?"......