[Alumni-chat] The board and Toni must be challenged and challenged*hard*

[Gerry Bello]

I think this is a false contradiction

We need to hammer now to buy the time to raise the money and make the plan.

I sense momentum shifting our way.

The last 2 DDN stories showed us a couple of things:

1) Toni is in retreat or she would not have made the 10 million comment

2)  They have money enough to give themselves HALF A MILLION dollars in 
bonuses.

The latter of the 2 revelations is something we can run with.  Please 
realize that the people that shut  us down paid themselves more money IN 
BONUSES than we have raised.

This can be spun:

1)  Why couldnt Toni forgo that bonus to "provide leadership" in this time 
of crisis?

2)  Right now the press dialogue and echo chamber resounance is "Antioch 
killed itself with political correctness"...  We now have the begining of a 
supply of ammunition (more will come to light soon I'm sure... because it 
there, we just have to find it) that changes the story to "Antioch was 
killed by corporate greed on the scale of Enron"

Any statement made to the press ought to indeleibly link the Names Toni 
Murdock and Kenneth Lay.

This story needs a villian.  Right now that villian is "political 
correctness" and/or "liberalism" and or "'60s nostalgia".  Lets shift the 
blame pattern.

As far hammering things out, the board has a fiducary duty to keep the 
college open if a bussiness plan and money exist to do so... These things 
must be hammered out.  We can do this...

One thing does not exclude the other.  If we attack their bussiness 
practices we should have so good ones of our own.

---G '97



"We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about 
that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it leaves the 
stage of history but we are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the 
prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We 
carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
----Durruti





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>E. Daniel Ayres said at 
>http://w3.antioch.edu/pipermail/alumni-chat/2007-July/001533.html:
>My main concern is not so much getting all the issues hammered out, but 
>rather preservation of the capital, both historical, and physical, which 
>represents the core of the Antioch College we all experienced and grew 
>within.
>-------
>Daniel has it right. We need action *now* to keep the College intact. The 
>board and Toni must be challenged and challenged *hard*. They need to be 
>challenged in their positions, and they need to be challenged on their 
>decision to close. Not in a month, or six months--the 
>deeds/contracts/leases liquidating the College property will be signed by 
>then. What motivation do they have to negotiate with us? None.
>
>I am not sensing much urgency here. The board, and especially Toni, cannot 
>be trusted with the College. Period.
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