[Alumni-chat] current student opinions

[alanbenard (alanbenard at pobox.com)]

>A current student who was at an Antioch meeting in New York last month was an entering student when the Renewal Plan went into effect. She said a third of her class left in the first three weeks because the introduction of the new classes was in such chaos, students didn't know what they were supposed to be doing from one day to the next, faculty were arguing with each other about how to teach, in class in front of students. (I don't mean this to be a knock on the faculty. Of course they were confused themselves and it seems inevitable that sometimes it would come out in front of the students.) You'd have to be an extremely resiliant 18-year-old to stay through something like that.
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>Sonia Jaffe Robbins
>Antioch College '60-'62, '64
That's fascinating anecdotal support of the Board of Trustee's malfeasance in cramming Revival down the college's throat one year early and without promised financial support. 

Add a narrowing of the admissions standards down to 'pert near nil by President Lawry and you get the the murder of Antioch College. 

Alan Benard