[Alumni-chat] A Case for Closing

[toyboy (andy at svcable.net)]

"As for there not being enough room for moderates and conservatives, I, too,
would like to see Antioch get beyond the politics of confrontation and see
further ahead to the fact that we now live in a world where people with
different cultural and religious beliefs (and business practices ) are going
to have to learn to live together.  I would like to see a college where
there could be a model community, where conservatives, liberals, and
radicals could dialogue openly and respectfully, where Christians, Muslims,
Buddhists, Jews and athiests (etc.) could have lively and informative
discussions. I think advertising internationally for students is a super
idea.   But that's just me, and I'm just one small voice."

Actually, Antioch was like that as far as I remember (1956-1961) so wishing
for
those "good old days" isn't so  crazy after all. What happened to change
that?

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That's easy.
#1 the sixties
#2 Jim Dixon and his Farflung Centers
#3 the 1972 strike
and my newly evolving pecadillo
#4 Herbert Marcuse and his uncharitible philosophy that has been de rigeur on campus since the 70's through today.

Your mileage may vary.