[Alumni-chat] FW: [antioch-nyc] re Outline sketch of a plan

[Sistersara at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/2/2007 9:04:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
dramamama at nyc.rr.com writes:

I want  to point out that somewhere - is it the Alumni Board bylaws? - it is
stated  that you are considered an alumnus if you were enrolled at Antioch
College  for one year. There are many who went for only a short time but  are
committed. I myself dropped out after three years, but served on the  Alumni
Board for most of the '90s (including a stint as vice president) as  well as
heading up the alum work project before reunion for untold years. I  don't
think we should shut out anyone who fits into the current definition  of an
alum who wants to work for the school. 

- Robin  '64



Yes Robin, but you also walked the mound to get your degree.  And If I  am 
right, you also got a College Degree.  
 
My point is essentially legal.  During the AIF days, Katy Jako got  
threatening letters from the University Lawyers for using the word "Antioch" on  that 
fund.  In fact one of the reasons for moving ahead quickly and  disbursing the 
fund once negotiations had not come to fruition was to avoid a  University 
claim on the fund, and a long process of legal fights over control of  an asset 
that would have used up the fund.  Thus the fund was disbursed to  secondary 
charitable designees, the fund was closed, and the issue of the right  to 
ownership of the term Antioch was mooted.  
 
I believe those who have earned an Antioch College Degree may well be a  
class that can use the word Antioch.  I also believe some people who earned  a 
substantial number of credits toward a degree at Antioch College may fit in  
under a "membership" notion.  But be careful here -- the University  apparently 
has some very clever lawyers that are sensitive on this score.   I believe the 
Alumni Board can turn itself into a foundation and use the Antioch  name, as 
long as it uses a criteria of "membership" (Antioch College Degree  Holder) that 
will pass muster.  And I raise this issue only because I know  a little of 
the AIF history, the cloud of a legal fight the University  attorney's 
introduced, and my hope that people working this now take that little  bit of history 
into consideration as they plan ahead.  I am not in favor of  raising a lot of 
funds, and then being a sitting duck for the University coming  in and 
claiming the accounts.  
 



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