[Alumni-chat] Anitoch Lawyers: What we need and what we have.

Thu Aug 23 14:34:11 EDT 2007

 What is interesting is that Yazz failed to include my message to him
that stated that the only thing that connects Art Zucker to me is the
fact that we graduated in the same year.

-----Original Message-----
From: YAZZ ALLEN [mailto:davidallenusa at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:30 PM
To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
Subject: [Alumni-chat] Anitoch Lawyers: What we need and what we have.

August 23, 07

  Hello from Yazz Allen!
  Contact me directly at YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com

  Mr. Martin Fried '55 of the Antioch Alumni Assn. Legal Committee sent
me a protest message regarding my post about him and Arthur Zucker '55
on the Antioch Chatline  yesterday.

  Here is my reply to him, FYI:

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  August 23, 07

  Dear Mr. Fried,

  Thank you for your email message. 

  l respect you and am VERY impressed by your credentials and life
history, which I made a big point of posting as part of the writing I
did which included you.

  My first duty in the present situation is to Antioch College, and to
keeping Antioch College open without interuption.  The decision to close
down Antioch is disasterous, and the damage already done simply by the
announcement and steps taken by the AU BOT is enormous......as it was
intended to be.

  The people who executed the closedown attack indeed thought out a
Pearl Harbor "no notice, maximum destruction as soon as possible"
strategy.

  My opinion is that the forces, clearly led by Mr. Arthur Zucker '55,
who intend to close down Antioch College in July 2008 will win.

  They face no serious or well organized opposition, and voices like
mine protesting the failure of alumni to get serious about fighting and
defeating those who would destroy Antioch College by closing it down in
July 2008 are few and ignored.  Initial reaction to my most recent post
is quite typical.  

  Those who dominate the various website, chatlines devoted to Antioch
have clearly accepted the "fate" (which I do not believe needs to be
accepted and which I believe is NOT inevitable) of Antioch as a "done
deal."

  I have tried to bring talents I have (as your talents are legal) into
this fight.  I have talents a gifted publicist (I spent 10 years doing
major public relations for major organizations) and as a person well
experienced in dramatics (I am a pro movie actor......first movie acted
at Antioch 1963 on a co-op job in Chicago...played "Jesus In Chicago" in
an Antioch student film screened later in Kelly Hall in YSO).

  My goal is to keep Antioch College open without interuption past July
2008, to dispute and overturn the AU BOT decision to do that.

  My way of at least keeping this goal alive and not ignored
(increasingly the case in public, cyberspace communications by
Antiochians) is act dramatically and in a manner which attracts
attention...this is the goal of publicity.

  Mr. Zucker '55, who really is a villain in my opinion, was made for
that role.  He looks like it, acts like, talks like it......   I've cast
him as the main villain here.

  In the recent post I did which included you and your name, I did
something I accept and realize is rather desperate....I took a tax
attorney (the dullest possible catagory of lawyer) and suggested
conspsiracy.

  Maybe it's true and maybe it isn't, but it IS dramatic, and it DID get
people's attention.  This what I wanted, what I believe is needed to
REVIVE talk of disputing the AU BOT closedown decision, rather than
accepting it meekly (which is the present trend, sadly).

  People are at least talking, communicating, about the subject, and the
fact that major player in the present drama may include bad guys.

  I don't think you've incurred serious (or any) damage.

  You are not helping Antioch College stay alive, but most people part
of the cyberspace outlets who read what I wrote are ALSO not helping to
keep Antioch alive....that accounts for the fact many have come to your
defense, and objected to the fact your honor was "stained" (which it
wasn't).

  You are being praised now in far-flung places like Michigan City,
Indiana (J. David Coldren '65) as a "Lawyer who clearly knows his
business."

  Mr. Coldren doesn't know that tax lawyers know little about the law
outside of the tax law specialty, that the field of law itself is vast,
and most lawyers know little outside their specialty.

  It is unlikely the present Legal Committee has a single heavy weight
lawyer capable of reviewing Case Law on the subject of non-profit
organization Trustees guilty of malfeasance and removed by law and
courts for that.

  Not hard to do, ironically. A quick database search of Lexus and Nexus
by a skilled, computer saavey lawyer with some energy and brains could
do that.

  The sleepy "Legal Committee" Antioch Alumni Assn. operation you run
probably lacks the sort of legal talent needed to put some fire into the
effort to keep Antioch College open, and also has NO ambition to seek
out lawyers better (for this task) than they are.

  Sir, I have no doubt you are a big star in the estate and trust and
tax areas of law and legal scholarship, service, and courtroom
accomplishment.  But that's not what Antioch College needs right now.

  It needs legal do-ers.  That is not you or your minions part of the
present (August 2007) Antioch College Alumni Association.

  Feel free to use any of this communication in any way you see fit.  I
am, as I've stated, a bit believer in the power of publicity, and
Antioch College (which school I love and am trying desperately, if
inadequately, to defend and keep alive, open without interuption) needs
publicity showing that not every alumnus has abandoned the conclusion
that legal action is the best way to keep Antioch College alive and
open.

  I don't think you are doing the right thing, but I don't hate you for
that.  Honest mistake. I'm willing to accept that, but I'm not willing
to accept where your honest mistakes are taking Antioch College....to
it's grave.

  Sincerely,
  Yazz Allen

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  Contact Yazz Allen directly via email at YazzAllen at Yahoo.Com, mail to
644 Shrewsbury Commons Ave., #239, Shrewsbury PA USA 17361...
  See my pro movie actors photos and recent credits by visiting
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going to my home page for photos.  On the photo page, hit IMDb RESUME
box/icon for recent credits/ resume details.

  "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." --
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)

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