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OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Laura Fathauer, Antioch College Action Network
Phone: (614) 439-0257
Email: laura@saveantioch.org

ANTIOCH COLLEGE ALUMNI: UNIVERSITY LEADERS SHOULD STEP DOWN

June 6, 2008, Keene, NH -- More than nine hundred Antioch College alumni and former students, faculty and staff called for the resignation of Antioch University Chancellor Toni Murdock and Board of Trustees Chair Art Zucker.

The 900-plus signed onto a petition circulated by an alumni group, Antioch College Action Network, that is being presented to Antioch University trustees at their June 5-8 meeting in Keene, New Hampshire.

In June, 2007, under the direction of Murdock and Zucker, the Antioch University Board of Trustees voted to suspend operations at Antioch College effective June 30, 2008, triggering a remarkable outpouring of alumni organizing and fundraising to keep the College alive. Last month, after nearly six months of negotiations, the board narrowly rejected a deal with alumni major donors which would have allowed the College to continue operating.

Alumni involved in the negotiations have said the University negotiating team, led by Murdock and Zucker, repeatedly obstructed a resolution.

The petition states: “Chancellor Murdock and Chair Zucker have failed in their stewardship and fiduciary obligations to safeguard the future of the College. We are calling for their immediate resignation from their positions, either voluntarily or by action by board members who recognize the failures of the past and the need for change in leadership.”

View it here: http://saveantioch.org/2008/05/31/call-for-resignation/

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contacts:
Lori Askeland, (937) 767-8116, laskeland@sbcglobal.net
Judith Wolert-Maldonado, (937) 767-0118, juju70@msn.com
Group: Yellow Springs Residents in Support of the
Antioch College Revival Resolution,
Website Affiliation: antiochians.org provides more information about the Antioch College Revival Resolution. Antioch College alumni are responsible for its content.

Yellow Springs Residents Organize Emergency Town Meeting to
Ensure the Future of Antioch College

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is a private liberal-arts school with a

Antioch College

history of social activism. It was the first American college to name a woman as a full professor and one of the first to admit students of all races.

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Update from Rick Daily, Alumni Board Treasurer.

As of July 3, the College Revival Fund has reached a new total of $525,000.00!

In just one week, from its previous high of $424,000.00 which was raised in an unprecedented 18 hours during Reunion last weekend, the Fund has increased by over $100,000.00 in cash!

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Published today, July 3, 2007 on InsideHigherEd.com

Counterpoint: Antioch Chancellor Responds

By Toni Murdock, Chancellor, Antioch University

Over the past few weeks there has been much writing, in many venues, about Antioch College and its suspension of operations in 2008, writing that has included for the most part only tangential references to the Antioch University campuses outside Yellow Springs. Such references have been not only brief but at times open to misconception at best. It is time to provide a closer look at these other campuses of Antioch University.

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Community Pulse from YELLOW SPRINGS - compiled by CG

Students: There is an effort being made by Tim Eubanks to connect
students and their families with Antioch Alums in their areas. This
has been posted on the Antioch College Online Network, as well as on
more informal online networks. This networking is just getting
started and we are hoping to get people connected soon.

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COMMUNICATIONS TEAM
as of 7/2/2007

- held first conference call 6/29 to coordinate activities and revise contact list
- next conference call 7/6

Priorities:
1. Antiochians.org site functionality
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Alumni Board mission and bios
- Support action groups and alumni chapters through list serve creation

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From The Editorial Page of the Dayton Daily News

Sunday, July 01, 2007

One of the more remarkable statements made in the wake of the announcement of Antioch College’s closing was by President Steven Lawry.

He said the reason he didn’t tell anybody on campus that the decision was coming was that he didn’t know.

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By Julia Keller, Tribune cultural critic, July 1, 2007

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Defiant alumni start revival fund, vow to keep college open

By Diane Chiddister, editor Yellow Springs News

About 600 Antioch College alumni came to their annual reunion last weekend dispirited and despondent, having heard a week earlier that their beloved alma mater would, in a year, close down. But the alumni, who spanned seven decades of Antioch graduates, left two days later determined, committed and upbeat, having decided to throw their considerable energies, talents and resources into saving their college.

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Though whomever wrote the headline missed the fact that we’re not closing, folks have been saying this is the best national coverage we have received.

Antioch Closure Ends Chapter in Higher Education by former faculty member John McChesney reports.

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For Immediate Release

Antioch Alumni Vow to Keep College Open, RAISE $424,000 IN 18 HOURS

Yellow Springs, Ohio, June 25, 2007 – More than 700 Antioch College Alumni spanning seven decades gathered to celebrate this past weekend and affirm their commitment to keeping Antioch College alive and open.

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It has been widely reported that the Antioch Community was outraged as they converged on campus this weekend for the largest reunion in recent history. In the purest Antioch tradition of turning outrage into action, we came together in what will surely be considered an historic moment.

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Taos Pueblo Poem 

to the community in honor of the Antioch Northern New Mexico Co-op Learning Community and read by Nancy Crow to the community:

Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe in, even if it is a tree, which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here.
Hold On!!!

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Antioch College Revival Resolution
June 24, 2007

Whereas, Over 500 Antioch College Alumni attended the 2007 Antioch College Reunion representing the classes of 1938 through 2007, and

Whereas, the Antioch College Alumni met in community sessions with College faculty, staff, current students, administrators, McGregor students, members of the Board of Trustees and representatives of Yellow Springs to discuss alternatives to the closing of Antioch College in June 2008, and

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ACTION ITEMS FROM COMMUNITY MEETING
June 23, 2007
This document is the result of a community process facilitated by Antioch College Community Government, past and present.  The role of Community Government is and has been to facilitate communication and collaborative decision-making with staff, students, faculty, and alumni to make Antioch College reflective of its community.
Today, Antioch College students, alumni, faculty and members of the Yellow Springs community came together to form plans to rescue Antioch College from immediate suspension of operations. This is a working document, and does not represent foreclosure on further discussion, generation of options, or action.
We would like to add that it was our education at Antioch College and our experience with shared governance that made this process possible.
As community members, we invoke the spirit of Horace Mann when we say, “Be ashamed to let it die!”