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Admissionsby Ed M. KoziarskiThe Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute begins holding classes Sept.4 with the entire village of Yellow Springs as its campus. 22 facultyare continuing from Antioch College,offering a curriculum that retains major elements from recent years at thecollege while taking a number of innovative new steps.But what of the students? Whowill come to a school that lacks accreditation or the ability to confer degrees?Nonstop professor Scott Warren told the Associated Press July 11that Nonstop was aiming for an enrollment of 80 for fall semester. “Weknow that several, possibly many, students who attended Antioch last yearare interested in joining Nonstop,” saidco-op professor Susan Eklund-Leen.Legal ConcernsPlague NonstopLogo Contestby Marjorie JensenOCollege for their lawyers. Itappears to be in trademarkviolation. However, objections were not raised by theCRF or Antioch Universitylawyers about the hearted,winged, starbursted, tilted,vitruvian A used by the CRFfor reunion and fundraising.The political movement of Nonstop Antioch isprotected by the first amendment. The copyright thatAntioch University holds isusing the Antioch name todescribe an educational institution. The logo (and thename) of the educational armof Nonstop is under stricterscrutiny than the overallmovement.The logo contestwas initiated as a way toovercome the legal and aesthetic concerns of using the“Logo Contest” Continues on Pg. 7.bold and to make courageous choices.”“They realize that this is morethan just a temporary bridge betweenthe Antioch-of-the-past and the Antioch-of-the-future,” Kay continued,“but a groundbreaking educationalventure that can offer them much morethan they could expect from a traditional college: experiential learning inits most radical sense, the unique opportunity to be part of the constructionof your own education, participation ina genuine academic community undershared governance, and the knowledgethat by being part of Nonstop, theyare participating in a social movementwith a broad political scope.“Considering these arguments,the temporary lack of accreditationseems to be a rather small issue formany students,” she said. “Almost allare hoping to attend Antioch Collegeafter it reaches independence.”“Admissions” Continues on Pg. 6.The Essenceof Nonstopby Scott WarrenPhilosophy & PoliticsOn June 30, 2008,the operations ofhistoric 156-yearold Antioch College weresuspended by the AntiochUniversity administrationand board of trustees, despite widespread nationalprotest. Faculty and staffwere evicted from their offices, building locks werechanged, heartfelt goodbyes were exchanged, andthe campus was closed.But the story doesnot stop there. It is onlybeginning. The spirit, legacy, values and educational mission of Antioch College are continuing in thename of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute (“Nonstop”) operating in thevillage of Yellow Springs– we face legal challengesif we use the name “Antioch.” Twenty-two formerAntioch faculty membershave developed a progressive and cutting-edge liberal arts curriculum thatthey will offer to studentsof all ages and communities in coffee shops, bookstores, churches, schools,businesses, parks, homes,and libraries.“The Essence of Nonstop”Continues on Pg. 6.July 25th, 2008n July 1, ExCil appointed an anonymous panel to runa logo contest for the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute(NLAI), the educationalbranch of the Nonstop Antioch Movement. The panelincludes members from faculty, staff, student, and Yellow Springs constituencies.After about two weeks andfour entries, the panel choseMatt Minde’s submission.However, CollegeRevival Fund (CRF) staffmembers raised concernsabout the legality of Minde’sdesign; it too clearly evokedthe vitruvian A of AntiochAs administrative coordinator of thethree-person executive collective thatoversees Nonstop, Eklund-Leen is responsible for admissions.“Scott’s estimate of 80 is asgood as any, and we have discussed arange between 50 and 100” students,”Eklund-Leen said.At press time Nonstop was inthe process of hiring a recruitment facilitator whose position would be dedicated to this endeavor. Eklund-Leensaid that absence of that position has“slowed down our efforts” to date.Jeanne Kay, a continuing student who sits on Nonstop’s governingcouncil ExCil, has been answering inquiries from prospective students.“Most prospectives want toknow about accreditation first and foremost,” Kay said. “Of course, studentsrealize it is an adventurous choice.Prospective Antiochians tend to beTheNonstopRecordVolume 1, Issue 2
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Prominent academics from across the nation call for the continuation of Antioch CollegeDismissed Antioch College faculty receive expressions of support from over 1,200 college professors and scholarsYellow Springs, Ohio – July 23, 2008 - While the Antioch University administration continues the process of closing downthe 156-year-old Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs, a petition drive recently initiated by the dismissed AntiochCollege faculty garners robust support from academics across the nation.Over 1,200 academics, from liberal arts colleges and state and private universities, have endorsed the petition (http://petition.antiochians.org/), expressing their support for the efforts of the college alumni and faculty to “save Antioch College asa progressive residential liberal arts college with a tenured faculty.”Signatories include such prominent scholars and leaders in the field of higher education as Michael Apple, Alex Callinicos,Judith Butler, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Judith Halberstam, Michael Hardt, Fredric Jameson, Peter McLaren, Nel Noddingsand Andrew Ross.“Alumni, faculty, and staff have made great efforts, intellectual and financial, for Antioch College to continue. Where suchpassion and commitment exist, everyone in higher education should support the undertaking,” noted James Engell, Chairof English at Harvard University. Endorsing the petition, the signatories are calling on the Antioch University Board ofTrustees to live up to their recently stated intention of transferring the college to the Alumni Association, who would thenwork to re-open it as an autonomous progressive residential liberal arts college, with its tradition of tenure and unionizedlabor intact.Many of the academics who endorsed the petition used that opportunity to comment on the uniqueness of Antioch Collegeand on the importance of preserving its progressive values and innovative teaching practices. “More than ever educationin the U.S. needs the example of Antioch College’s tradition of progressive education and social justice orientation,” wroteMarilyn Johnston-Parsons, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Local faculty and petition signatories hold that the Antioch College closure case marks a significant departure from traditions of tenure, academic freedom, shared governance, and general due process. “Tenure protects what is the life-blood ofeducation: freedom of thought and speech. That is why corporate managers like those running Antioch University havetried to eradicate it and why the restoration of tenure throughout Antioch is a key part of reestablishing a free and healthyCollege,” noted Paul Lauter, the Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford.The petition also applauds the “Nonstop” efforts of the dismissed college faculty, who, with the financial backing fromalumni and local community, will be teaching classes outside of the campus from which they have been ousted, in localcoffee shops, bookstores, churches, and residents’ homes. The mission of the Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute is to carry onthe progressive traditions and values of Antioch College until the college is re-opened and the faculty and staff can returnto the now abandoned campus.Nonstop Institute (inquiries@nonstopinstitute.org) is not affiliated with or sponsored by Antioch University or its relatedorganizations. Donations to Nonstop should be directed to College Revival Fund (501(c) 3); earmarked for Nonstop: https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid 24702, College Revival Fund, PO Box 444 Yellow Springs, OH 45387.Contact: Chris HillPhone: (937)-767-2327E-mail: chill@donet.comPetition Link: http://petition.antiochians.org2By Jeanne KayLast week, I was browsingthrough a London bookshop when atitle on display caught my eye: « Universities in a Neoliberal World » saidthe cover of the pamphlet. “This isexactly what I need!” I thought; I hadbeen struggling with the question ofwhy my summer course at the LondonSchool of Economics was so disappointing—in its undeniable politicalbias, but also in the lack of questioning,intellectual inquiry or critical thinkingstudents were encourage to show. After two years at Antioch College, theLSE class seemed bland, superficialand dogmatic: nothing I couldn’t getfrom the WTO website or a neoclassical economics textbook.“Universities in a NeoliberalWorld”, by Alex Callinicos* not onlyanswered some of my interrogationsas to how a world-renowned university could be so unscholarly in its ap-proach to undergraduate teaching, butalso revealed itself extremely relevantto the situation of Antioch College.In his pamphlet, Callinicosexplains how Higher Education in theUnited Kingdom is undergoing substantial transformations as a result ofthe neoliberal world order. “Britishuniversities,” he argues, “are in factbeing driven by priorities shaped bythe needs of big business. They arebeing reconstructed to provide Britishand foreign corporations with the academic research and the skilled workers that they need to stay profitable.”As a result, scholarly institutions areincreasingly becoming “profit centres”: pools of innovation and skilled workers for corporations.I was immediately remindedof the speech that former Antioch,now Nonstop professor Jean Gregorekgave last June at the college’s commencement. In her address, she suggested that liberal arts colleges were“educational green spaces” dedicatedto “non-instrumentalized lines of inquiry,” and that just like many othernon-monetarily quantifiable goods inthe world, they were under attack “inthe name of supposedly inexorablelaws of progress, efficiency, and market demand.”Antioch College may well bea private institution, but its structureand mission support the flourishing ofan educational Commons, where, inGregorek’s words, “silence, reflection,musings, experiment, practice, thegaining of knowledge, the trying outof ideas and art forms, the bumping upagainst Otherness and other points ofview and questioning” are valued fortheir intrinsic worth and protected inconsequence. As such, it is an anchorof resistance against the systematicenclosure of the commons perpetratedworldwide through neoliberalism andcorporate globalization.Antioch University, despite“Jeanne Op-Ed” Continues on Pg. 7.OP-ED’SBy Noreen Drescher & Dixie Maurer-ClemonsThe campus of Antioch College both adds to and sharesin our rich national heritage. This is true because of thehistory bestowed by our founding President Horace Mann.It is also true because of the architectural and design innovations of President Arthur Morgan who served as oneof the key innovators in Civil Engineering and was a truevisionary in environmental planning. This campus was beloved by both men. Antioch boasts many buildings on theNational Registry of Historic Buildings including AntiochHall, the Rebecca Pennell House, Curl Gym, the ScienceBuilding, North Hall, Birch Hall, South Hall, RockfordChapel, Weston Hall/Mann Library, and the OctagonalChimney of the Power Plant. Under consideration for theNational Registry are the Theater, Evan R.Spalt, Engineering, Hugh Taylor Birch House and certain landscape design elements such as the Front Lawn, the Horseshoe, RedSquare, and Birch Hall Quadrangle. All of these propertiesare to be treated with the same sensitivity and care as thosethat are currently listed on the National Registry.The Antioch College Campus is a gem in the garment of Yellow Springs. The historic district extends intothe Village of Yellow Springs (see Getty Report on AntiochPapers). Think of the central issues of our time, those thatgovern our collective well being: clean air, clean water, andsafe shelter plus nature conservation. Antioch College andthe Village of Yellow Springs, anticipated and addressedthese issues in a prescient manner. This legacy deserves tobe preserved.Drawing on the reputation of Arthur Morgan, Antioch University has advocated for innovative scientific research and environmental studies in the University/Collegeprograms. Antioch University has posited the experientialin education. How, then, decades of deferred maintenanceof the campus National Historic structures, became thenorm for Antioch University/College leaves me incredulousand defies credulity. How does an educational enterprise,with the legacy it claims, place its very heritage at risk?How can we claim Arthur Morgan in our speech and ourbrochures but not in his embodied buildings and grounds?The shuttering of the campus in June is a wake upcall to the Village of Yellow Springs, to the Alumni Association and to Antioch University to be mindful of theirroles in preservation issues and to the bottom line wealthin assets. All three entities need to be invested in the careand condition of these buildings. Land does not depreciate.The value of real property is in its improvements. Countless thieves, who have salvaged buildings for copper wire,“Noreen & Dixie Op-Ed” Continues on Pg. 8.3
Nonstop Committees and MembershipCompiled by Marjorie Jensen and Rowan KaiserExCil (Executive Council)ComCil (Community Council)Tuesdays at 10:00, 140 Glen St. Fridays at 2:30, 140 Glen St.FacultyAnne Bohlen (co-chair)Nevin MercedeScott WarrenIveta JusovaJill BeckerExecutive CollectiveHassan Rahmanian (ex-officio,non-voting)Chris Hill (ex-officio, nonvoting)Susan Eklund-Leen (ex-officio,non-voting)CGFoster Neill (ex-officio, nonvoting, co-chair)Rowan Kaiser (ex-officio, nonvoting, co-chair)Rowan Kaiser, Foster Neill (CG,one vote between them)Kathy SheltonsDavid BishkoffScott WarrenRebecca SperlingLeslie GilbertJeanne KayDon WallisDiversity Committee(subcommittee of ExCiland ComCil)Fridays at 11:30,Emporium-Amanda Caserta-Marjorie Jensen-Eric Miller-Hassan Rahmanian-Beverly RodgersElections Committee(subcommittee ofComCil)Ad hoc-Steven Duffy-Marjorie Jensen-Foster Neill-Scott WarrenBylaws Committee(subcommittee of ExCil)Ad Hoc-Chris Hill-Rowan Kaiser-Chelsea Martens-Eric MillerCurriculum Committee(subcommittee of FacultySenate)Once or Twice Weekly-Dennie Eagleson-Jean Gregorek-Nevin Mercede-Hassan RahmanianPotentialNonstop FacilitiesNonstop Headquaters!!!113 E. DavisBryan CenterRecord Advisory Board(RAB, subcommittee ofComCil)Thursday at 11:00,Emporium-David Bishkoff (Chair,Interim Editor)-Jean Gregorek-Rowan Kaiser-Marjorie Jensen (InterimEditor)-Foster Neill-Don Wallis-Isabella WinklerYS Senior CenterStudentsEva EricksonKim-Jenna JurriaansJeanne KayNon-Union StaffRobin HeisePrebyterian ChurchUnion School HouseSam & Eddy’s Living RoomUnion StaffCarole BraunLee & Vicky Morgan’s House4The EmporiumRockford ChapelFacilities Committee(subcommittee of ExCil)Ad Hoc-Jill Becker-Dennie Eagleson-Megg Fleck-Chuck Taylor-Foster NeillOutreach Committee(subcommittee of ExCil)Thursday at 12:30, 140Glen St.-Susan Eklund-Leen-Robin Heise-Rowan Kaiser-Jeanne Kay-Chelsea Martens-Foster Neill-Jonny No-Judy Wolert-MaldonadoBudget Committee(subcommittee ofExCil)?-Steven Duffy-Chris Hill-Kim-Jenna Jurrians-Foster Neill-Eric MillerTechnology Committee(subcommittee ofExCil)Wednesday at 2:00, 140Glen St.-Matt Baya-Carole Braun-Susan Eklund-Leen-Rowan Kaiser-Foster Neil-Jonny No-the Alumni AssociationwebteamMethodist Church5
.“Admissions” Cont. from Pg. 1.“The Essence of Nonstop” Cont. from Pg. 1There has been no movement in the attemptto gain accreditation through another institution whileNonstop awaits independent accreditation. “The curriculum needs to be finalized before we can move further forward,” Eklund-Leen said. “Summer is not theideal time to receive endorsement by another school’sfaculty, administration and board of trustees.”While careful to stress the lack of accreditation,Nonstop is recruiting not only from continuing Antiochstudents, but other traditional and non-traditional-agestudents. There’s a strong push for pro-Nonstop localsto sign up for at least one class. Nonstop held an openhouse July 17 at the Bryan Center in Yellow Springs toattract area residents to the program.“We have many supporters, residents of YellowSprings and the greater Miami Valley, who are interested in helping us move forward and joining our educational community,” Eklund-Leen said. “We expectthat many people will join us as part-time students.”Tuition is 1,500 for fulltime students, 300per class for part-time students, with some scholarshipsavailable based on financial need. Fall semester runs15 weeks, with a Learning Festival Week followed by aweeklong break in the middle of the semester.Enrollment prospects for a future, independentAntioch College remain an open question. With littlepublic information on the progress of independencetalks between representatives of the Antioch University Board of Trustees and the Antioch College AlumniAssociation, Nonstop is unable to lay a firm groundwork for recruitment, even as the admissions cycle forfall 2009 is in full swing.“If we were situated in a normal admissionscycle we would already be engaged with rising highschool seniors,” Eklund-Leen said. “Since we couldnot do any recruiting last year, we do not have a pool ofinterested students for fall 2009. That first class will bethe biggest challenge.”“As soon as we get a go ahead with a firm returnto campus date we can begin full fledged recruitment,”Eklund-Leen said. “At that point we will need the alumnito be fully engaged in recruitment efforts and will counton existing faculty, staff and students to help as well.” †This remarkable and innovative adventure is beingfunded by the energetic and dedicated alumni of AntiochCollege. Under the name Nonstop Antioch Movement, theAlumni Association established a College Revival Funddevoted to raising money and support for the revival of anindependent and free Antioch College, and to keeping theNonstop faculty and staff in operation. This is our currentplan of action, pending the outcome of ongoing conversations between key alumni and board members to secure theCollege’s independence.Prospective students can inquire about Nonstop athttp://nonstopinstitute.org (under construction) or byemailing nonstopinquiries@gmail.com.Email Ed M. Koziarski at edmkoz@hotmail.com.6What is the essence of Nonstop?1.It is an educational vision that keeps the DNA of Antioch College alive pending its resurrection. It is avision dedicated to liberal arts learning for life, andin the words of founding president Horace Mann,for “winning a victory for humanity.” Nonstop isthe vanguard of the revival of Antioch.2. It is a commitment to carry on the educational mission of classroom, cooperative education, and community, while building new relationships and partnerships with alumni and the villagers of YellowSprings (our new “campus”).3. It is a return to our traditional values of shared governance and collective decision making that hadbeen supplanted in recent years by corporate-style,top-down, secretive decision making. Nonstop hasno administrators; the operations of Nonstop arecoordinated by an “Executive Collective” of threefaculty chosen by the community, and decisions aremade with the input of all constituencies.4. It is a return to the original meaning and soul of liberal learning with Socrates and Plato. The essenceof this learning is the human and pedagogical relationships between teachers and learners, regardlessof where that learning takes place. And that learning, in our view,
CRF or Antioch University lawyers about the hearted, winged, starbursted, tilted, vitruvian A used by the CRF for reunion and fundraising. The political move-ment of Nonstop Antioch is protected by the first amend-ment. The copyright that Antioch University holds is using the Antio
