I really appreciated seeing this. Thanks, Paul: you captured a lot, and you captured it wonderfully.

Jerry Holt

Hello everyone,

I recently started a blog about the efforts to save Antioch. More
importantly, I included a list of all the places online that I have found
conversations and networks of Alumni and students discussing this dilemma.

Please go to my blog to find this list of links and some other interesting
letters. I'm updating daily with things I come across.

I would also like some feedback about the links. Do you know of any other
links online? Please let me know! I want to make it as complete as possible.

http://alexandrakesman.blogspot.com

Thanks!

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Alexandra Kesman

I did my part to try to get something for the San Francisco Bay Area Alumni Chapter while thoses over at Antiochians.org get there act together. However I'm going to step back and watch from now on.

Well just last Sunday I attended a gathering of Bay Area Alumni. Which I have to say was a good turn out. What I didn't expect was to get drafted into build or creating a Bay Area Alumni database. I feel bad for the Antiochians they are really trying to put there heads together. It's CG all over again but without being face to face. I stayed away from CG when I was a student. It was fustrating to watch people bang there heads for day or months and have little if anything to show for it.

For my part of I have most likely haven't helped much since I don't think anyone is really listening, at least on the mailing list. Everyone is so focused on saving Antioch and so far the only solutions they have seems to be raise money, create website, create user database, and save Antioch. Multiple people including myself have made sugestions on what software to use for the user database and money rasing. CiviCRM seems to be the choice other people have used. Sure with the right skilled people they could build there own too, if someone has the time to work for free. There is even a company that can provide all of that for Free or a monthly cost of $50 (thats $600 for a year and then the College doors close anyway if they can't raise the money).

I have a really good contact with a McGregor/Antioch College student who would like to know what organizing steps to take to help with the College Revival. She says that many students at McGregor have other choices for degree completion/master's degrees. They choose McGregor because of their connection to Antioch's values. Let's start the dialog.
contact me at karenkotiw@yahoo.com
Karen Kotiw

Antioch Alumni Association Acting Board Treasurer Rick Daily's response to my questions

Here is the complete text of Mr. Daily's response to my questions. I thank him very much for taking the time.

I will refrain from responding for a while, hoping what I have already written is clearly understood.

From: "Rick Daily"

To: "'alanbenard at pobox.com'"
Subject: RE: [Alumni-chat] RE: COLLEGE REVIVAL FUND INFO
Date: Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:56:52 PM

I'm not yet on the chat board. Please pass the following along:

"I am not going to Reunion this weekend, but I have hopes someone who does go will collect e-mail addresses, and set up an independent site -- otherwise I will try to learn how to do it."

A central site to coalesce all the different threads all over the net would be perfect. It would also be great to have a common room to gather all the grieving and outraged alumni I'm hearing from, who want to organize to take Antioch back from the University and try to save it. ARA, is this new central site a possibility?

Thanks!

I'm just messing with Google Maps and seeing what they might add if anything to the sight. So far they don't seem to really do much except take time to load and show a map without navigation or address information.

I'm going to be at reunion with pipebombs and torches, like many others. I don't know what all good it'll do; the BOT doesn't seem to feel accountable to us.

 I graduated with a bitter taste, and spent my last year in recluse. After suffering through my senior project and my advisor's mercurial outbursts, I needed to be away from Antioch in every way. Suddenly I crave going back.  I must be insane.