Crisis...

So, I'm putting this on all my pages, I might as well here. We have ran after problem, after problem, after problem money-wise since getting to Antioch. Besides issues with our GI Bill working out (it did... but it took FOR-EV-ER). The term ended at Antioch around the 26th of April. Our plan was to transfer to Wright State. They didn't start until June 16th. Then we found out Matt would have to pay out-of-state-tuition, which is double.... then a whole other financial crap storm in the form hit us and has rendered us nearly penny-less, and none of our bills will be paid this month... to make a long story short, and to spare all the ugly details, the most important bit is that my babies both have birthdays this month. Tessalie turns six July 12th, and my son Rein turns two on the 16th. I'd really like for them to have a decent birthday - a friend suggested a "DONATE!" button from paypal... (I'd give my address for gifts/giftcards, but that prob'ly isn't safe... HEY CREEPS, OVER HERE! Here's my beautiful children... and here's their ADDRESS! you get the idea)

So if ya got it great, if not, cool - no need to be apologetic or anything... I TOTALLY get it :)

The button is over there to the left.... :)

At Community Meeting Today...

what a hoot!

The Antioch servers are down, so I can't post the letter I wrote on the community forums. For now, I'll just post here since a whole lot more people than just the Antioch students heard my mouth fly open after being told to shut up. Then I apologized for it! Well.... lemme just post the letter:

Today at community meeting, after an hour of fun, laughter, and the response from one of our community members, Ellen, on all that has happened over the past weekend Anjez stood up (ahead of the stack) and told everyone that he had somewhere to be and that if we wanted to hear him talk, then he had to do it now (ahead of the stacks). I personally was happy to
see him go since he wasn't there for much of the meeting, and on more than one occasion hasn't respected the community's way of organizing these meetings. Others were also happy to see him leave as well, but out of a certain amount of fairness and decorum, he was allowed to speak.

What followed were the exact quotes the community has heard over and over and over again from the constant press releases from LaPierre - the university's PR gal (amusing). I raised my eyebrows when he called Ellen a liar (interesting).

I found it uproariously funny when he got to the PR quote I had just read the night before about a "hostile takeover of the university". I laughed my butt off (as did the rest of the room), turned to look at him, and he looked at me and said, "shut up". For half a second I saw my son's face, and looked at my flabbergasted partner.

In that moment I became OUTRAGED. My mouth opened, and I without even thinking found myself standing up for my voice and the rights of others with, ya know, a voice. As he turned to stomp out of the meeting, he pushed aside a gentleman and more angry words followed. I looked down at my son again who was upset, and moved to calm him. I realized suddenly that I had stood up in front of a room of people and a camera and opened my mouth letting my rights tumble out. And I was mortified.

I apologized for "loosing my temper". I hadn't had time to think. And I was scared shitless of what "the University" was going to do to me, and what repercussions that might have on my family and I, and on the college. I was hurting and wondering if I had given fuel to some fire... I wasn't sure if I would wind up "punished" in some way for my voice.

And now I have had time to think. And the thoughts I had immediately follwing Anjez tantrum (my nearly two-year-old son likes to stomp off when he's mad too) and my subsequent reproval of him as a pissed off woman, mother, and community member make me realize even more clearly:

I AM NOT SORRY FOR LOOSING MY TEMPER.
I said it later on in the meeting, and I'll do it again now: ANYONE WHO IS TOLD TO "SHUT UP", SILENCED, OR TOLD THEY HAVE NO VOICE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE OUTRAGED. I AM OUTRAGED. I AM NOT SORRY FOR THAT.

The loudest thought in my head besides simple outrage was that I WILL NOT TELL HIM TO SHUT UP. I WILL NOT BE THAT LOW.
What I did do is to tell him in no uncertain terms that he was not to tell me to shut up, and that he was, in fact, interrupting and should really just wrap it up (read: today you aren't going to monopolize all of our time while shitting on us all, then walking out as per usual) nothing that I said was out of line except my apology.

There is a time for keeping quiet, a time for decorum. Being told to "shut up" in front of my community and my family from a college president/ceo who continued on to nearly assault another in his way (he pushed someone on his way out) is not the time for quiet or decorum.

Women are taught that their anger is bad. I have been told that my whole life. To survive I learned to blend in, and to be quiet. It was a hair-trigger reaction for me to be mortified at my display of anger at being told to shut up, and my very appropriate reaction to it.

I have grown, lived, and learned not to give my personal worth and power away by allowing another to tell me to "shut up".

And neither should anyone else.

Yellow Springs: Place for Military Games and Planning

The title explains it all.

I believe in the power of the internet, and the power of repetition. Insiders/watchers of the Antioch University scandal... observe the methodical and calculated bad press put out on Antioch College by the University's PR piece-o-scat...

I've included two links everyone must see - footage of the Homeland Security exercise that was forced on the College by the University (and a very brief history of how the university has purposefully sabotaged the college for it's personal monetary gain).... and another documenting the presence of the regional military & commercial development meeting in conjunction with BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) HOSTED BY MCGREGOR.... AKA "ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY". (I will forever use the name Antioch in relation to the university in quotes... they don't wear that esteemed name very well) and the students thrown out of the meeting where channel 2 news media was allowed. ...

ANTIOCH CONFIDENTIAL

"LEARNING SPACE"

Pass it on. Blog it. Put put the links in comments if you can.

What I have learned thus far... (post dedicated to Scott Warren)

Pre-blog thought:
Speaking of pompous a-holes and quasi-liberals, who was that guy at the Cincinnati meeting (that was actually in some weird small place in Kentucky) who stood up, spoke, insulted the BoT, insulted Antioch College, and then (heh "as an alum") stated that what we're looking for isn't (insert something about support from alums) but that we're looking for "rich philanthropists" and marched out? (to which no one blinked an eye to and the meeting continued on like he wasn't there). Remember that guy? Anyone?

Onward:

Last term I threw myself into the battle to save Antioch College - while still being a student. My studies faltered, and I found my heart repeatedly ripped out by the scandal that some outside of the situation look at so dispassionately and comment from far away in blogs and news websites - "As an alum, and a professor at such-and-such college or university, I can't believe the failure of the flagship campus has anything to do with some scandal from the University... it has to be about money". I can't imagine how so many are able to help us - you're all super-meta-human-super-heroes, I'm convinced. And greatful.

I've taken a long break from immersing myself in it, and have learned from my struggles, and have come out a person who has been better able to navigate the (until now) mysterious realm of politics, bureaucracy, and fake people. I used to have great disdain for the previous, and it made me struggle greatly in life. If nothing else, I am becoming a more and more successful person in day-to-day interactions and struggles because I am intimately acquainted a situation full of it. I would NEVER have learned how to navigate this large and ugly part of life on my own. And I am now so very glad of it. Antioch Education in so many more ways than one teaches success. Especially, I think, when it's tough.

I dedicate this post to Scott Warren for teaching me and others in his Critical Thinking class the beauties of Informal Logic and refreshing us all on logical fallacies. It has made my brain grow and understand more about the world around me.

Onto the rest of the blog:

Pompous a**holes indulging in an over-used fallacy - argumentum ad vercundiam - also known as the appeal from authority - are doing nothing but stroking their own egos and feeling rather important because they are big professors at some college or university, and because of that and the fact that they are alums at the college in crisis, you should listen to them and their opinion matters.

Well Mr. listen-to-my-unhelpful-and-all-important-opinion who takes the side not of the college that nurtured their assent into professordom, but of the BOT and Toni Murdock (things such as the shutting down of a 155-year-old-college NEVER HAVE TO DO WITH SCANDAL OR SABATOGE). I mean, of course the BOT have our best interests at heart, right?

WORDS TO LIVE BY FOLKS.... THIS MAY CHANGE YOUR LIFE.... MAKE IT YOUR MANTRA, IN FACT.....

OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES, EVERYONE HAS ONE (AND MOST OF THEM, OTHER THAN A RARE DELECTABLE FEW) STINK

Please, Mr. listen-to-my-unhelpful-and-all-important-opinion, please stop throwing around your crap. At least hear both sides. Don't Google Antioch College, read a few newspaper articles put out by way of that dumb bleach blond dip Mary Lou LaPierre (the University's PR person in charge of damn near everything) and throw around your professorship/alum status like so much dead weight.

And last but not least, thank you to those still carrying the torch for students who are tired, frustrated, and just trying to either graduate, and/or hang on to a cause they believe in to their core. I know it's the only reason I'm here. I NEED to hear this encouragement like I need water, and it's wonderful to see those efforts among a sea of articles-written-from-press-releases-by- LaPierre. I only wish that before throwing out their over-bloated and self-important opinions, people would actually read the Antioch Papers website, and talk to those who are fighting for it... not just hear the side of rich bureaucrats and decide they must automatically be right (since they are on the board/part of the university/part of Antioch/whatever) and therefore must care more about the college than money, right?? It's this whole "if it's in the News, it must be true" way of thinking that has kept our war going, and put Dubyah in the white house. There are other, better ways of learning facts. While I believe in the internet's power for good, lazy thinking, I must say, is one of its downfalls.

Quasi-liberals piss me off more than the right-wing-bush-supporters.


Website Articles that spawned this blog:

Can Antioch here survive woes at flagship campus?
This is LaPierre waving dollar bills in the Seattle Times paper creating a money C R I S I S (bum bum buuuuum). I wonder where exactly this figure comes from.... anyone....?
"Antioch Seattle has been propping up the faltering Ohio campus with more than $250,000 a year, according to administrators. Each year, the deficits in Ohio — and the demands on the satellite campuses — have grown."
Beautiful in its function. I will say she does her job well. Ah, to be making your dough off of people who only get their news from the paper. If the world is really run by a small handful of ridiculously powerful people, I bet they are professional press-release writers. (hmmm, or not... i bet they hire people for that.... ) Correction: ahhhhh.... to be a puppet.

An Open Letter About Antioch's Future
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this wonderful article on the 'Inside Higher Ed' website. I, and so many others needed it.

And here's one stinky pompus a-hole opinion I take issue with:
"... One problem with this argument is that it says nothing about correcting the problems that caused Antioch College’s decline in the first place...It may be a choice between bringing the whole multi-campus university down vs. cutting the losses while there is still time. I also attended the June 2007 meeting as an Antioch alumnus and my impression was that the Board was doing the best it could with a very difficult situation, while many of the alumni were demonizing and scapegoating them as a means of denying the College’s real problems....But if they fail, I do not believe it will be because of some devious plot on the part of the University board."
Ted Goertzel, Professor at Rutgers University at Camden, at 9:30 am EDT on March 18, 2008

First of all, one would assume (at least I would assume) that anyone reading this article is on the "up and up" and has done their homework about why people are "demonizing" the University.
This article shouldn't have to list all the reasons why Antioch College declined in the first place. It isn't an analysis of that. There are plenty of places to read about this. If this guy did his homework, instead of making his analysis of the article based on the fact that he "also attended the June 2007 meeting as an Antioch alumnus" and his "impression" (what is this guy, clairvoyant?)maybe he wouldn't be spouting crap he's read from articles written straight from press releases written by LaPierre - the University's PR person (and dumb, bleach-blond dip).

If you read onto the other comments, plenty of other people addressed this comment much better than I ever could. Thank you to you folks too. Oh, and thank you for basing your analysis on facts and not just that you may work at the college/teach at the college/are a part of saving antioch/are professors and have "impressions". Though that is in no way an attempt to undermine the clairvoyant impressions you may or may not have.

All other comments were good (I especially loved the one pointing out the BoT/University Leadership Council demonizing the alumni, faculty, staff and students who are trying to save their college) , but this brought tears to my eyes:
" Unfortunately, for those of us involved in the struggle to save Antioch College, Professor Goertzel’s close alliance and support of the University Board of Trustees is well known. As is his apparent disdain for the last thirty years of graduating classes from Antioch College. Those alumni who regard the college with antipathy do so on the very basis of the thing they now defend: creation of the university exhausted the resources of the college, diverted the attention of the trustees and placed the faculty at an ever greater remove from what should be its rightful place at the center of governance and the curriculum. Dr Goertzel and others like him refuse to accept that the decline of the college occurred inversely to the rise of the university. There are many legal issues surrounding emancipation of the college, but we have literally thousands of lawyers among the alumni and we have raised over $18MM (not including the $9MM pledged by the board of the ACCC) so we can afford lawyers. The real issues standing in the way of a free college is the hostility of the university Chancellor and certain (non-alumni) members of the board to the college. This battle is a more than just about Antioch’s future. It is about the future of small independent liberal arts colleges. Those who lead Antioch University have stated repeatedly that they do not believe in the residential model and that the “market” for students is in so-called adult, nonresidential education. Yet there are hundreds of financially stable private liberal arts colleges in the United States. What do they have that Antioch College does not? A board dedicated to their survival and capable of raising large enough endowment to decouple tuition revenue and viability."
Travis Sanford, Class of 1994 at Antioch College, at 1:50 pm EDT on March 19, 2008

THE ANTIOCH COLLEGE RADICALS OF TODAY... WHAT HAPPENED TO ANTIOCH AND WHAT'S UP WITH THESE STUDENTS TODAY??? from student to alum, with love

Ok, I lied. I'm not done, and there's something else on my mind that didn't belong in the last post. This little bird keeps landing on my shoulder and whispering things. He's a passive-aggressive little jerk... he doesn't believe in putting things out there, and out in the open.

I do.

I have something to say to "some" Alums. In a bit, you will know if you belong in this group or not. I'm calling no one out, because I don't know most of you... but I've heard some utterances about:

PIERCINGS - I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!!! ?
QUEER? TRANNY? WHAT?!
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THIS GRAFFITI???
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS CURRICULUM? IT WASN'T LIKE THIS WHEN I WAS HERE!

And the ever-popular (though I'm fairly positive this didn't come from an Alum, but maybe it did - hard to tell anymore) COMCIL??? ADCIL??? THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM!!!

It seems as if Antioch Students have run amok. Things here just aren't like they were in "my" day. It isn't the same education, it isn't the same thing. The Antioch that I knew and loved isn't here anymore.

And why do they have to go to every stupid demonstration there is? They're just too RADICAL.

If any one of these things resonate with you, it's you I'm talking to.

I hope those of you that feel this way can take some things into consideration, that I'd like to put forth.

In your time... whatever time that was... YOU I believe... WERE RADICAL TOO.
And you more than likely went on to do AMAZING things in your life that took HARD WORK, DEDICATION, SACRIFICE. Many of you BUILT SOMETHING OUT OF ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Some of you became doctors. Others are PhD's, authors of wonderful books, scientists, have done important work for society. I know some have headed up wonderful charities, and organized hundreds of people to also do great things. Some are lawyers. (tongue slightly in cheek)

But while I'm no kind of history major, I have a bit of education, and I know that:

*Women smoking, and wearing Pantaloons was RADICAL.
*Poor people gaining an education... RADICAL.
*Black people allowed to eat, go to the same bathroom as, and going to school with whites.... VERY, VERY RADICAL. (not to mention the entire scope of the black movement that is beyond the scope of this simple student blog entry)
*Rosie the Riveter was strong, independent, representative of the workforce while men and boys were away at war, and... RADICAL.
*The co-op education... RADICAL.
*Words like "golly geez"... at one time RADICAL.
*Marxism... RADICAL. (ok, ok, it still is - but does anyone remember the times of the hollywood blacklist?! My god!)

This is a poor, poor list. I bet there are so many wonderful stories out there. Wonderful stories of that RADICALISM that changed the world, and did so for the better. I hope I can add to this list by hearing first-hand accounts instead of just thinking of some things off the top of my head.

We are only wanting to follow in YOUR footsteps. To do what I'm sure so many of you set out to do: to change your lives and the lives of others. To win those victories for humanity that each one of us has been charged with and strives for. Many things are different - but the most important thing is the same. We all (the students) believe in the Antioch Motto with all our hearts and live by the Antioch Honor Code.

"Antioch College is a community dedicated to the search for truth, the development of individual potential, and the pursuit of social justice. In order to fulfill our objectives, freedom must be matched by responsibility. As a member of the Antioch Community, I affirm that I will be honest and respectful in all my relationships, and I will advance these standards of behavior in others. " (italics/emphasis mine)

So... what's up with graffiti? Find out! The answers may surprise you. While I sadly cannot say that I am a part of that incredible movement in our society... creating public works of art, most times temporary art, to send out powerful messages... I appreciate the messages being sent out that may otherwise not be heard. I attempt to listen to them and understand. I attempt to study what that movement is about instead of instantly degrading its worth because it is foreign to me and I do not understand, and a large sect tells me that is is wrong.

Queers? Trannys? What?! Talk to some. Their stories my enlighten and inspire. It's ok not to understand. They are here to both learn and teach, as each and everyone of us is.

SOPP?! This is something near and dear to me. And it takes a process to understand. It came from Antiochians before me who have been through horrific experiences and sought to make a change. It is reviewed and changed every two years to reflect the current needs of the student body.

I believe one thing I learned today from a teacher of mine was that it was Arthur P. Morgan - a man who spent six weeks in college - that predicted that half of Antioch faculty would be Academics, and half would be activists. What a powerful combination. How very well-rounded. I'm so thankful this place prepares me even more for the world than any other institution could. In today's job market college graduates are coming up short on work-experience (as well as the maturity life-experience brings). No one at Antioch will come out of here without a clear idea of what they DON'T want to do, as well as what they DO want to do, and with a "high-speed" resume for their field of choice to boot. Without the faculty we have to provide this education.... the AWESOME ACADEMICS AAAAND THE "DOERS"/ACTIVISTS... this place becomes another unmarketable pop-up college just like every one lining col glen hwy and all over the Dayton-metro area... and the millions in the US. I'm not here for "adjunct" teachers. I want the ones who ARE ANTIOCHIANS AND WHO BEHAVE AND ARE TREATED AS SUCH. I can get adjuncts anywhere.

I'm drifting off the subject at hand.

It would mean the world if the Alums who disapprove of us because we are different than they were would peer back into their college days for awhile and remember the ground-breaking, radical VICTORIES they helped shape for humanity, and the legacy of Antioch you left to inspire us Antioch Students now.

Swallowing

I'm in a state where I'm simply swallowing it all, and its a lot to swallow.

I'm so happy and thankful that we've bought some time, and have the opportunity to make some huge and amazing changes in our school. There is the opportunity to deconstruct the current crap reality at Antioch College, and to reconstruct it into something that represents what Antioch truly is to all Antiochians. We put the University in check, and buddy-oh-boy, they pulled a switcheroo and castled on our azzes.

Check.

Our move.

(you wouldn't believe the mental relief playing chess this week with Matthew has had on my poor tired, overwhelmed, and stressed brain. the ultimate meditation for the current situation at hand. try it, it just may help you too)

I understand the fear, sadness, confusion, and utter tiredness felt by so many of my fellow Antiochians. While in may ways I am an "other" at Antioch - meaning I am an older student, with many different priorities that being a mother who has taken a VERY long break from my community - I also know that there are staff members, faculty, and a large array of all different kinds of students that I share concerns, loves, passions, and gripes with. You're somewhere out there anyway. I continue to write as if someone is reading. :)

But I'm also dismayed in some ways. Maybe it's there, and I don't see it... I can't make it to every type of meeting there is (community meeting, adcil, comcil, faculty meetings, town meetings, etc etc.) I don't see the optimism I was hoping for with the decisions that have been reached. Yeah. THEY EFFING SUCK AND I WANT TO TEAR MY HAIR OUT!!!! GET RID OF THE BACKBONE OF OUR INSTITUTION?! THE LOUD VOICES... OUR TENURED FACULTY AND OUR WONDERFUL, GIFTED, CARING COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE OUR STAFF??? WE'RE CUT TO THE BONE AS IT IS! And here they are continuing to gut us while everyone is becoming divided, and upset over a decision that I don't understand how anyone could have been surprised about. I feel like many are still taking the BoT at face value and only listening to their words and not looking at the entire picture and seeing what is implied. I have more reading to do on the issue - I am not and have never pretended to be a subject matter expert - but an "agreement" to keep the college open while maintaining this financial exigency farce and firing more people is ludicrous even to the most casual of observers. I don't understand why there's so much division, although I'm not in the center of the big arguments.

This is a game folks, and nothing has changed. Not the primary goal of all Antiochans, and not the goal of the Board of Trustees. These are just moves in a much larger game. We CAN NOT BE DIVIDED AMONGST US. I can't judge, but I know that one thing. Whatever it takes, please. One Antiochian student to all other Antiochians. Work it out and work it out quick. Everyone has shown incredible spirit and is fighting for something that is so much bigger than our little liberal arts college in the middle of yellow springs, Ohio. YOU ARE ALL WORKING TOWARDS THAT VERY ANTIOCHIAN DREAM THAT INSPIRED US... WHETHER IT WAS MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, OR SIMPLY MONTHS.

YOU ARE MAKING A VICTORY FOR HUMANITY. RIGHT NOW.

Sound hokey? It's not. We have inspired all other campuses to have their own board of trustees so that their needs are also adequately addressed. Higher ed is looking at us RIGHT NOW. We are shining examples of god-knows-how-many faculty members out there to organize for their rights. We are inspiration to dozens and dozens of other high-school students who want more out of life than to go into debt just to sit behind a desk at a "higher education institution" and be handed their education by someone sitting behind a desk who isn't any real part of their lives or community, that answers to a bunch of G. DAMN BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS WHO REALLY, REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THE CASTE BELOW THEM THEY'RE HANDING THEIR CRAP COMMODITY TO.

This is what it's all about. This is why I'm here. Why are you here?

Give me more, I'm still hungry. This radical can take all you can give.

and then some.

and then barf it all up in the laps it belongs to.

(um... I'll stop now. blaming it on sinus medicine today)

LAYING OFF OUR FACULTY???

(Judas kissing some Jesus ass)


ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME????

Sorry, I hate to be the only naysayer (no, really, I do) but I've been dealing with screwed up people my whole life. Seriously, I'm an expert, and a practitioner. Matthew and I have been talking about what the best strategy for the University would be if "we were in their shoes" and sure enough, here we are. The university board, assuming they were bent on closing the college down to make their own pockets even bigger had a few choices. I'm writing this assuming anyone reading this is well aware that there is a small group of people bent on opening a mall, or strip mall right on correy street, right behind Antioch College.

I'll say it right here and right now: I feel as if I'm taking a risk, since many students shy from talking to the media: many have already been expelled for speaking out (in the words of one student who shall remain anonymous and refused to talk to the local public access channel for fear of the same treatment when asked about how they would feel if the college was closed down and what the college meant to them). Honestly, I took a risk coming here at all, and this is why without abandon I voice my feelings here today and will continue to regardless of consequences.

The very ambiguity the University board of Trustees have been handing us that every Antiochian has been subject to deal with has made my a-double-ass homeless. I have a family consisting of my partner and two small children. If anything happens to me as a result of me voicing my opinion, you better believe you, dear reader, and every news station and every lawyer family member will hear about it, and since I have nothing else besides this larger in my life besides the family which I care about more than anything at risk, so will any higher authority willing to listen.

Come on people. I'm glad we have the step-up given to us to keep us from shutting down. But we have to be realistic. The U. Board had some choices. One: keep college open (they'd be hero's and yadda-yadda, but out the money invested in us closing, or Two: keep college closed... and have a big-ass and extremely legal lawsuit on their hands, Three: stall (and have a big-ass lawsuit on their hands OOOOOORRRRRR..... (the choice I must admittedly admire for the sheer intelligence of it...) PRETEND TO BE ON OUR SIDE, AGREE TO KEEP THE COLLEGE OPEN BUT ON THE CONDITION THAT WE FIRE WHAT VERY, VERY, EXTREMELY LITTLE WE HAVE OF OUR FACULTY AND STAFF BECAUSE WE ARE IN SUCH DIRE STRAIGHTS.

Apparently, that $18 MILLION dollars that was raised in a few short months wasn't enough to keep that institutional memory we've all been talking about since the beginning.

Damn, these screw-heads are smart. If we get rid of the backbone of our institution, in the name of "financial hardship" (forgetting the very CREATIVE way the books have been cooked) then our INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY... THE VERY THING WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR THAT THEY'VE BEEN ATTEMPTING TO ERASE... will be gone, and there will be no one left to fight for the very Antioch that we know and love...

But at least we'll be able to put our prescriptions at Wallgreens instead of the Drug Store in Yellow Springs.... There will be a glorious strip-mall that will flourish for a number of years before going out of business in rural YS like many, many other places in other towns now suffering... there will be short-term growth that will warrant the addition of new coal-fire plants and 50-year agreements CMEX... a coal-fire plant well known throughout the US for screwing over the citizens in the area it works in to increase profits at the expense of the "little people" living around it. I won't burden the casual reader of this blog with background of this issue, but simply google CMEX, and go from there, and you'll see what I'm talking about. YS boasts, as I've heard from at least one city council meeting that YS is a community of "highly educated citizens" that don't allow themselves to be duped by (insert current insidious plot here). We shall soon see if YS can uphold the high standards they like to so much of.

I want to believe justice will be done. But I've been screwed over too many times to realize that this is always the fact. It will come to show how people are willing to fight for they believe in, and how many are willing to stand aside to watch 155 years of progressiveness for humanity to go down the toilet because they just can't stand a little conflict.

I still stand in awe at the fact that though we won a victory for Antioch College, too, too few seem to be willing to stand up and say out loud THAT IT IS ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS that we are willing to make a deal at the expense of our FACULTY AND STAFF... CUT DOWN TO THE QUICK TO THE POINT OF NO RETURN... in order to stay "open"...
I hope it's just more strategy. Peace and love to you all....

DID THEY WIN???

I suppose we shall see soon...

We will rise, muthafukahs...

NONSTOP ANTIOCH... TO INCLUDE OUR STAFF AND FACULTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE LOVE YOU!!!
I LOVE YOU!!!