[Alumni-chat] Media Alert: Antioch College Alumni, Staff, Faculty and Students Picket Antioch University

[Christian Feuerstein]

**** MEDIA ALERT ****

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*What:              **ANTIOCH** COLLEGE ALUMNI, STAFF, FACULTY AND **
STUDENTS** **PICKET** **ANTIOCH** **UNIVERSITY**;* *Urge Trustees to stop
stalling in talks to keep **Antioch** **College** open.*

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*When:             Saturday, March 15, 2008*

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*Where:            **11 a.m. – 1 p.m.**, **Antioch** **University**McGregor,
**900 Dayton Street**, **Yellow Springs**, **Ohio***

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*Why:               *Residents* *of the Village of Yellow Springs and
vicinity, members of the Antioch College alumni, students, faculty and staff
invite members of the media to join them as they picket to urge Antioch
University and its Board of Trustees to negotiate in good faith toward
creating an independent, ongoing Antioch College.



In December of 2007, the University Board of Trustees began negotiating with
the Antioch College Continuation Corporation (ACCC) to transfer Antioch
College and all of its assets to the ACCC. While proclaiming the need for
"good-faith negotiations," the University Board of Trustees and the Antioch
University Chancellor, Toni Murdock, undermined these negotiations at every
turn.



"The University directed Institutional Advancement staff not to solicit
monetary gifts on behalf of the College," says Ellen Borgersen, Vice
President of both the Alumni Board and the College Revival Fund, Inc., a
501c3 that has raised over $18 million dollars to date for a continuing,
independent Antioch College with tenured faculty.



She continued, "Then, on February 15, Interim College President Andzrej
Bloch was sent back to campus from a University Trustees meeting and
announced that the College would close on June 30, 2008. He acknowledged
that negotiations with the AC3 were continuing, but claimed that the AC3
"agreed" that the College would have to close. That was absolutely not true.
In addition, the University Board of Trustees unilaterally sent out a
damaging and misleading press release claiming that Antioch College would be
closed for the 2008-2009 school year."

This past weekend, College alumni met with students, faculty and staff to
discuss next steps. What emerged from this weekend was a plan for Non-Stop
Antioch. The College Revival Fund will support students, faculty and staff,
financially and otherwise, in their efforts to keep Antioch College alive
and open in Yellow Springs next year. If the negotiations with the ACCC are
successful, Antioch College will continue, without interruption, on its
beautiful and historic campus. If no deal is reached, Non-Stop Antioch will
find someplace else in Yellow Springs to operate.





*Contact:                      *Larry Rubin, 301-270-9232 (home),
301-300-0398 (cell), lwrubin at aol.com



*More Info:*                  http//:www.antiochians.org



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