[Alumni-chat] info

[Michael Casselli]

To the community
There are many reports in the press about yesterdays meeting. Here is  
one example and there is a whole google list of press put together by  
Marianne Connolly on the forums page in the communications section. I  
beseech anyone who has not registered to the forum to do so, as well  
as visit antiochians.org, it is a clearing house  for up to date info  
about the present state of affairs. Yazz, do a little work instead of  
insinuating that someone else is not being forthcoming, your tone is  
annoying and you seem to enjoy implicating others or suggesting that  
someone besides yourself is not doing what they are supposed to. The  
information is out there and accessible, find it and disseminate. The  
forum is an ideal place to start.
Casselli 87
Alumni Present Plan to Keep Antioch Open
October 26, 2007
10 hours ago

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) — Alumni of Antioch College formally asked
trustees Thursday to reverse their decision to temporarily close the
155-year-old school known for its social activism, saying they've  
raised $18
million primarily in pledges to keep it going.

"The entire alumni board has become energized and deeply involved," said
Rick Daily, an alumnus who has helped spearhead the fundraising  
drive. "We
believe deeply that the college needs to continue operations beyond this
June."

The alumni presented their plan to Antioch University's board of  
trustees
inside a crowded gymnasium at a community center in this southwest Ohio
village. Several hundred people packed the gym, including students  
carrying
gold balloons and yellow-and-black "Save Antioch College" signs.

Daily asked the trustees to immediately reverse their decision to  
close the
college and urged them to create a board of trustees for the college  
that
would operate with limited intervention from the university.

The trustees said they would evaluate the alumni plan over the next  
two days
and a decision Saturday.

The college founded in 1852 is the flagship for Antioch University,  
which
has five other campuses in Ohio and on the East and West coasts.

The alumni said they expect to raise a total of $25 million to assist  
the
college in the 2008 school year and then hope to launch a five-year,  
$100
million fundraising drive beginning in 2009.

School officials announced this summer that because of declining
enrollments, heavy dependence on tuition and a small endowment,  
Antioch will
close after the spring term, reorganize and reopen in 2012.

Art Zucker, chairman of the board of trustees, urged both sides to work
together.

"We are all here and committed to save the college," Zucker said. "We  
all
care."

Michael Casselli
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