Ohio Ping!
Posted on 02/23/2008 6:48:47 PM PST by TonyRo76
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) -- Antioch College, known for inspiring quirky academic programs that produce students with a passion for free thinking and social activism, has no choice but to close for the 2008-2009 academic year, trustees of the parent Antioch University said yesterday.
Operations will be suspended June 30.
Antioch and Yellow Springs, tie-dyed and liberal-leaning, fed off each other. Students were encouraged to create their own programs for learning.
Famous alumni included Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, Coretta Scott King and evolutionary scientist Stephen Jay Gould.
After two days of meetings in Los Angeles, trustees reaffirmed their June 2007 decision to close the college for a year. They said they ran out of time to reach a deal on transferring the financially struggling school to a group of alumni, donors and others with its own board of trustees.
Trustees had reversed their earlier decision in November, contingent on whether alumni and the school could meet fundraising deadlines. But the college could not overcome declining enrollment, heavy dependence on tuition and a small endowment.
Trustees said they would continue discussions on a possible transfer of the college, but said it was important to clarify for students, faculty and staff that they would need to make plans for the next phase in their educations and careers.
The town and school have been fertile ground for social activism and civil disobedience, ranging from anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s and '70s through demonstrations against the Iraq war in recent years.
In 1994, students took over a campus building for 32 days to protest the school's plans to turn it into an admissions office instead of a student-activity center.
Yesterday's decision does not affect Antioch University's nonresidential campuses in Yellow Springs, Keene, N.H., Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Seattle, or its doctorate program.
"It has been a difficult year since Antioch University's board of trustees -- many of whom are (Antioch) college alumni -- faced the reality that the undergraduate college had enormous financial problems and an unsustainable business plan," said Art Zucker, the trustees' chairman.
The closing will affect about 200 students, 41 tenured faculty and 85 staff members, Zucker said.
He said trustees, the university administration and alumni spent the past eight months trying to save the college after the realities of the college's finances were announced.
Yellow Springs is about 15 miles east of Dayton.
That's one less year of future commie idiots being minted from this pus-filled pimple of academe.
This is good news. This piece of crap “college” deserves all the financial disasters it gets. I hope it fails... furthermore, I hope every student, every alum and every “professor” ever associated with the fetid place fails, too.
You wrote:
“That’s one less year of future commie idiots being minted from this pus-filled pimple of academe.”
Oh, come on, Tony! Don’t hold back! Tell us how you really feel! :)
Obviously they don't have a business or economics program. 126 employees for 200 students comes out to about 1.25 students per employee. That means they're probably spending around $70,000 per student on payroll alone, not including little incidentals like electricity, water, maintenance, groundskeeping and insurance.
Oh yeah, Baby!!
Two thoughts. 200 students wouldn't even make up a good sized elementary school, much less a College. And it looks like each student was pretty much having to support a faculty member or a staffer. Two or three profs should have been able to handle all 200 students
About 50 miles West, a school called Thomas Jefferson college was founded somewhat earlier near North Vernon, Indiana.
It too was infused with Abolitionist sentiments, and prior to 1850 the folks there operated a program for freed slaves who'd managed to get across the Ohio river.
In 1850 the Runaway Slave Act was passed, folks started getting prosecuted for violating it (there in Jennings County), so the school had to be defended with brute force.
Slave catchers were regularly dispatched and buried in a local apple orchard.
This school disappeared more than century ago and if one of my Great Aunts hadn't told me about it I doubt I'd have bothered tracking down its history. Isn't much more to tell of course, but I suspect that there was a similar retrenchment and consolidation in many of the little Southern Indiana Abolitionist dominated schools in the immediate post-Civil War era.
Taken a doggone long time for Antioch to go down, but it did.
Maybe Hillsdale could take over the campus and open an Ohio branch...
Very good idea.
If only. About the only piece of mail I look forward to is "Imprimus."
What’s going to happen to the football team?
Youngs Dairy in Yellow Springs has the best ice cream on earth. Hope this doesn’t hurt them. BTW, never heard of Thomas Jefferson College in N.Vernon. I used to work in that town.
Now if we can only CLOSE Dennis Kucinich for good!
If I recall correctly, this is the school that started an absolutely ridiculous code of conduct for students who date each other. Each and every tiny little baby step in the process of courtship had to be preceded by a “May I” questions and an affirmative, verbalized answer.
http://www.antioch-college.edu/Campus/sopp/index.html
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8138.html
It was called the “Sexual Offense Prevention Policy,” and it was started by an organization calling itself “Womyn of Antioch.” (Any time you see the word “Womyn,” you know you have some fascist Feministas on your hands.) Think about it. If a guy and a girl feel the same way about each other, he can’t just take her hand, look her in the eyes and kiss her. The act I’ve just described would have required at least two “May I” questions (”May I hold your hand” and “May I kiss you”) and two affirmative, verbalized answers.
All of the spontaneity, mystery, romance and excitement of courtship was sucked out of that college campus. No wonder enrollment and donations had dropped so low that they were finally forced to close their doors.
Goodbye, Antioch College, and good riddance.
Well to tell the complete truth... 
on an early episode of "The Twilight Zone" on time travel, I went forward to 2006 and purchased a degree and had it backdated.
If the college closes down for 2008-2009, the chances of it reopening are slim to none unless a left-wing sugar daddy comes along and bails them out.
Hehe...thanks, I’ll try not to sugar-coat it as much ;)
They should've listened to Cartman...
"Dude, they don't have any money...they're hippies!"
George Soros, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
LOL! Of course not! Businesses and people who study economics are all evil, greedy capitalist pigs don'tcha know...
;)
Woo-HOO! That's an awesome idea, I love it...
Football?!?! BWAHAHAHAHA!! Waaay too manly.
If anything, this place might have a varsity skateboarding team...
This is of course, the Columbus Debauch. That RINO-owned newsrag that shills for social liberals at every opportunity.
LOL. I was just going to mention Young’s Dairy - a couple of miles north. Great place for ice cream and barnyard activities for kids. That and a hike thru Clifton Gorge makes for a great day trip.
I am sure they had no football or dodgeball teams, but were standouts in ring toss.
Figures they received little money from their alums.
Interesting list of student organizations. I would love to know what my dad would have done had I brought Antioch’s catalog home.
http://antioch-college.edu/Campus/cg/independentgroups.html
Except for the Grateful Dead, Ben & Jerry's, Birkenstock, Whole Food Markets, etc. They all amass "obscene profits", but somehow they're OK.
The hippie hypocrites won't admit that they don't even really oppose capitalism. They just want everyone to think and live as they do, with state penalties for those who might disagree.
“Womyn” That can’t be, since even with a Y, the word ends with “men.”
How about “Woperson?”
No, that won’t work, since it ends with “son.”
The final answer is obvious -— “Woperdaughter.”
“free thinking and social activism”
Code words for Maoist and Marxist supporters, who ironically didn’t support free thinking and social activism (those who did were sent to the gulags.)
”You want fries with that burger???”
Love the Young’s Dairy... We used to buy whole Jersey milk, there, and make butter. Nothing quite so good as a fresh hot hunk of homemade bread slathered with fresh made butter.
If we can get our hands on that phone ET made we can call the mother ship to come and get kook-cinich.
University of Michigan had a “Student Activities Building” — financial aid, mostly as I recall...maybe some admissions as well. I remember thinking it was false advertising.
Young’s Dairy is NOT in Yellow Springs. Yellow Springs is in Greene County. Young’s is in Clark County. This is will not bother Young’s a bit. Over 1 million visitors a year and more who don’t bother to stop when the lines are too long. It is a great family place with wonderful ice cream. John McCain had a milk shake there last week.
Antioch never had a football team and is proud of it. They have T-shirts bragging about no football defeats.
What, no Pro-Life or College Republicans???
Shouldn’t liberals be used to dealing with having a “small endowment”?
Rumor had it that policy only applied to heterosexuals.
Could you imagine if someone wanted to start a pro-life or Christian club? The tolerant would become intolerant in 2 seconds.
BWAHAHAHA!!
Yes, they should be...
Did he really? I wonder if he got the cow shake or the bull shake.
My aunt is able to identify the location in fact.
This thing shut down more than a century ago. Once the North won the war the flow of black refugees (slaves) stopped.
The school, as she identified it, was outside the town.
Geez! I was just kidding. I know a school like Antioch turns out panty-waists and girlie men, certainly not football players (or anything else that might cause them to spoil their manicures or coifs)!
Zach Thomas, not a bad move for da Boys!
GO CAVS!
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